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Show SHOULD BE NQ ROWDYISM. The Butte Miner wants clean base ball and presents Its views in the following fol-lowing editorial which we endorse- It Is owing to the fact that baseball as played today is such a clean sport, that makes it so Jusf.y popular The elimination of anything smacking smack-ing of rowdyism has kept the game at Its present high position It was deplorable action on the part of a pitcher In one of the big eastern leagues In knocking clown the manager man-ager of another team and then offer ing tne puny excuse tnat h was ex asperated beyond endurance by the taunts directed during the game by the New York manager at members of the local team.'' In the first place It Is bad enough when a pla.vcr pays heed to the remarks re-marks of outsiders, but when he needs must take that kino of offense at which another player or manager )n some other team says about bis team mates during the game he has no business in professional basebail. W tu n any spectator at a game makes his talk to the plavers or an;, player, abusive, the supervisors of the grandstand or bleachers ought to throw him out The player should be protei ted but he need not start a row with the abusive spectator at thai time. The same principle applies to the attitude of players toward each other If coaching, or remark-making during dur-ing a game by any piaver is going to be of any real abusive character, then the rules of the game ought to prohibit pro-hibit such tactics The umpire Hbould be given authority tu order a player guilty of such abuse out of the gamo The pitcher in question who Imagined Imag-ined it was up to him to represent the entire team In making an assault in the manager of the other nine, after the contest ought to be put out of the game entirely Rowdyism of any sort on the baseball base-ball field is not to be tolerated At times there Is too much rooting of an extremely strenuous kind at the games in Ogdn Members of the Sail I-ake team of the Union ssociatlon have said they would prerer to plav at any other place on Ihe circuit than in Ogden John Mi t'loskey. their manager, tells of being made ihe tar get of young rooters with tllppers and on one occasion he was the object of vile epithets That Is not rooting, but is a form of rowdyism that should be suppressed. One mistake has been made in placing plac-ing the visiting team next to the bleachers, where nagging, of the outside out-side players often degenerates into low personalities The position of the teaniH should be "reversed. . ood natured flings at (be visiting plavers and even sharp and pointed Criticism of their playing Is an en Joyablc form of rooting, but mean, nasty personalities should be prohlb ited. and the managers of the local grounds should let It be know-n that the vulgar under the disguise of rooting root-ing will not be tolerated. Ogden Is In the Union league in order to enjoy good clean baseball and to make a favorable impression of this city s Importance, and thai aim can be defeateu oy rowdyism. |