Show f A n PlA PLAYER r rs DOES HIMSELF HARM lim Athlete Who Poses for Benefit of the Audience I Finds Public Disfavor and Not Much Else I What IB Is known as fl a fl grandstand l i Y pIny by b a competing athlete fluda dis disfavor feu favor or as n a general rule with both III the th other members of that m tonni and ad the spectators unless It Is s sl ti l of the spectacular variety of o perform performance once ance which comes naturally without ij the semblance of ot playing tho gallery sail err w writes rites F Ii I B Morse MONO I l To play pIa the tho heroic is s ono one of tho In ln li rent of humanity in J and athletes In particular and andI c 1 I 1 has hns been the cause of the tho downfall I r C f many an nn Individual who has at attempted atI J I tempted It It Is merely morel the llio childs I J Invariable habit of showing off air which clings to tho the adult I The than who Is a member of a n nI I 4 I team loam who IK Is I constantly looking to tomake tomake make a grandstand play pIny Is lA as a aI Amoral rule rula tho tim hOe bane of his organization I Ion tion for fOl or he ho IB Is It prone to lo the tho thel l J essentials of team play pIn pia for the Ihl pur purpose Jur pose Paso of bringing applause to himself lr In the UIl long run nm It H ends disastrously disastrous The writer bus baa Been Reen many man a n man on oit the ho football field flold who has bats attempted to make il a sensational run without the uso so 0 of his lila Interference who has haR fall fail failed ed ell dismally both to 10 the tho of o the tho Individual and to the tho disadvantage toga tage of tho team Same Sanio on Track Tho The same applies to the tho cinder track where many man a runner has worn himself out In tho th early carl stages stae of a arace arnce arace race by b taking the lead and hitting up upa a pace which he lie has been lo to maintain Without tho the Incentive of ofa a gallery that same Bamo athlete would In all likelihood have hae adopted less I spectacular tactics Paying to lie tho gallery is one of oC tho the besetting faults of the tho average pugilist pu 1st and has had much to do ilo with tho thu downfall of many man a champion A most carnal observer will not that many manya man mana a champion pugilist when sparring t I with lib bin hi boxing partners will allow them to land on his faco face or 01 holy body hod re repeatedly repeatedly without any an semblance of I I covering up tip It Is a mere mero form of I playing lo to the tho gallery doubtless with the Idea of Impressing on them the fact that ho be Is Js able to tako take punish punishment I mont ment The Thc writer has hus soon seen Nelson with his hands handa at his sides shIes take a half dozen doen blows in tho the fact In succession I from a sparring partner Recently I while several hundred d men mell and wo woo women wooI men were watching Thomas going through training stunts the Cali Call California California fornia boxer deliberately allowed nil owed his sparring partners to reach rench him repeal odly edly without any am semblance of o self defenso It Tt caused a tI laugh lau h from Crom the crowd crowel ostensibly for tho reason that I the sparring partner is Impotent As a matter of oC fact fad this practice on the part of a n pugilist leads to 10 care carelessness on his part With the big hig slaves Io s used in training he is practically I I cally call immune from rom Injury but It Il de do develops clops a disregard for tho the fact act that in ina Ina ina blow bow of ot the velo yolo I a rO regular contest content one I I dt cIty of a half halt dozen given In tn training is likely to floor noor him hIm I The number of men who have at attempted attempted attempted I tempted spectacular steals of bases I I na game samo of baseball without regard re rd to signals is legion leIon anti and at critical times LImos It has lead to the defeat of that mans team merely for tho the resau that he lie has hns wished to gratify his lila vanity by br the applause of the spectators tors tars Thu practice is a pernicious ono and one that all athletes should school chool themselves to eschew especially the pugilist who is likely to receive his hils I quietus at tho the Instant he lie may many be ho smil smilingly In lr reassuring some Home friend tho thio spectators This Is conspicuously I held apparent In the Uw bouts houts where whore young oung semiprofessionals are arc engaged Many a punch more mor or less damaging has been received when one boxer has hns been playing to lo the gallery Instead of keeping keep In Ills his eyes on his op opponent In n the opinion of the writer playing to tho the gallery gallon was ono one of the prime I causes causeR of o Corbetts downfall when he lie fought Jeffries at al thin the Coney Island Athletic club in Now York For near neam nearly I ly Iy twentythree rounds he had hod evaded tho thio rushes of oC Jeffries the only way I In which he lie stood a n chance chanco of oC winning I but hut In the fatal he fell to tho the gallery II |