Show I Hoodoos of the e Diamond I r I 1 Fast Becoming History n BY D o jH t l Tho ao death knell ll o ut oC the hoot linet hoo- hoo t t r too has beet been sounded and the only thing left u of tho ho delights Is r 1 I ty tho walking of tho the ghost I Modern ba baseball 1 Id driving rapidly i superstition from 1001 the game ganto J An Any of or you oU o u fans aims of tho lIw limn timid thirty third third I degree can con remember when a u. ballplayer ball bail 1 lla player thought that e cry o r ry calan l in ht tho the calendar would hit Il him nine U if IP a man than Slit sat sst on on an the bench In citizens citizen's s cloths cloth Of late however s say say- v- v l J I Q I 1 of or Ii Uio UtI tt dressed l up l-up up article have warmed the bench and ull nothing serious nits has happened 1 Tho fh one superstition which sticks sUcks to the tho baseball player like th the butter butler cuke cake cak to tho lie stomach ms i the presentation presentation presenta presenta- tion of or flower on tho the Hold fluid Two years r sago ago a 11 r l horseshoe was ryas presented t to to McGraw McGra p n and nil many members of t thes the tho s club believe belle it lost to 10 tae Giant Glans tio tro I r I Tho Time old broom superstition is lis late iivo 0 dean of or the tho corps COIN Since Jim McGuire Mc- Mc Guiro Guire was In Jn knickerbockers U it ha har has r j c been considered an un omen Ill to havel have havo I i. i j l tho the umpire after S lOl sweeping the tho plate i I throw the broom toward the tle home plate Some of tho rho worst squabbles in him baseball hayn haY t arisen en over this Hence the adoption of oC tho whisk v broom b by the umpires I Elberfeld and Jack Jacl Powell believe that thal posing for pictures Is the tho worst kind of luck Three seasons ago aro rIber field tried his b best l to dodge the thu cameraman camera man and amI when he failed he made a a. r. r serious error In tile the ime first Inning He lie f tr att attributed It to the tho camera camero But when k v h he won the game later Inter with a a. safe r 1 I. In tho ho ninth he In instated insisted tI that ot that J was as nS a a a- natural and the ther ra h man did not figure 1 ra r v i iti ti J f ty 11 1 1 r r I i I lit J Jack Powell Lays fays In his richest EI English Eng Eng- Ish lish I 1 wont won't stand for them c cameos around me mc and theres there's nothing to It It f ithA A now glove Is 18 also considered bad had luck uck on a It team When hen Hal Cha Chase e bought a a new a-new new lIew first baseman's milt last lust season several o of tho thin players com com- bitterly because he began playIng play- play Ins Ing ng with It before time tho t 10 new tan colorIn color- color lug In nj hid had given shon wa way to tho lie of tobacco juice All pl players ers still sUIl havo an Idea that meat thata it 11 a a. croSS e eyed cross spectator sits directly behind the plate It brings bad bat luck tuck lotho to lo tho rho homo home club In one of or the minor league at Birmingham hum it was vas Pitcher Jack Keenan walked over o 16 tb the stand str-ind and asked a u eyed cross man to move to one ono side Another superstition n which still lUll gets ett many of or the old i payers ayers goats Is whistling this whis hug WUI on or around the bench hench When Whon a player who unconsciously begins to whistle heart hears the thc warning Get Gel a It worm for til the mocking bird he knows known what It means Incans nn and 1 quits All special displays such Much as u fireworks fireworks fire Ure- works raising raining rul bands and march- march Ing mean bad all luck to tho ho ballplayer end it la with the greatest that the full tull tram team Is persuaded to line lineup lineup lineup up for the annual pa parade ado across acro the Mo Most t of those these old oil Superstitious ideas Idea i iare are rHu pausing passing and the modern ballplayer thinks them therm rot The Tho romance o of tho the game Is ItS going like hike It roday Today the tho ballplayer ballplayer ball hall player knows that science is tho the se secret secret secret se- se I cret of success and that luck omens cut no tl figure YOU never see ce a ballplayer wear a 1 rabbits rabbit's foot root these theBe da days |