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Show ROOTERS AT AN OGDEN GAME. The baseball rooter is a lop-sided enthusiast and an extreme partisan, and newspaper writers as rooters are as bad as the worst They cheer when poor plays are made by the visiting team and arc 'silent when' brilliant fielding stops the run-getting of the home boys. They are in favor of killing the "limp," if he makes an error of judgment against their team and they applaud the fellow if he shades his decision in their favor. But that is an affliction which is nation-wide. The Ogden fan has the malady in no more serious form than the rooters in Helena, Great Falls, and let us not forget Salt Lake. This "rooting." by tho way, is enjoyable, if you can throw off your arouud-town dignity and get into ihc excitement of the game. An Ogden business man was in the grandstand Tuesday and, growing grow-ing enthused, started to shout his maledictions on the umpire when he called Perkins out at first at a critical time in the ninth inning. When it was all over, and the "fan" recovered his normal mentality, mental-ity, he inquired if he had been "acting up" in an unseemly manner. man-ner. When reassured that no one had time to give him personal attention while there were other more exciting events on, he laughed and said: "By George, how a fellow does extend himself in this national game, which started with the old rounders we played as boys! I find myself shouting as one does when at a blaze, where the firemen fire-men have overlooked one or two tongues of fire. Say, but this is lung exercise! I have just discovered that my chest muscles have hnnn n little used that I have not more than two good hollers in me. I am coming out again, if for no other purpose than to g stimulate my blood. Baseball, as played by the rooters, is a health I restorer, and invigorating and I am sorry for the chap who is too I sedate to go mad over a ninth-inning rally by the home team!" |