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Show B Conducting the Cheering of a College I Crowd Is a Fine Art, All the "Rahs" I Being Built on or Around Nine, , Which Are Given as a Mark y: y 1 t t Tj T tlclpant in any kind of contest. During the - A , vvl H ; rT H ATI QY It" Q ten years' siege of Troy. King Priam and tho .V 4 M Bf V"-L lAvliVl J.L JL O other aged men of tho city, accompanied by ' y' Hi j TTT1 i 1 fT T Helen, Hecuba and Adromanchc and tho other yS yr Dj l MTl f HP I POITI I Q women of the court and city would assemble on yr yr40$ j V V JLICJLI LUC X CCU.I1 JLO the walls and root for Paris and Hector and y Wjgr Hi TT i t xx tMe otncr Trojan warriors as they battled with y W' l' JlUUtJlvJOoly V-U.L" Cur old friend Homer does not record that Sa y? ' tM Bll there was a yell lcador 'for this contingent of .VH y '7'- H'P r-Ccrr 4---4- 4-X - TrJan rooters, but In as much as the position ylllf ' " 'ft''"' 1 classed Liiar me $Bf' :&-''$$& H Man Behind the -.w ,. .'$' . flp. ' :9ilmr:- H Rooters Has to W i Work Hardest - I 1 AM . '-Im ' rr ,3U&fe mSm &&. Wm' B ASOSCANINT, Sousa and Max Zach stand out WM(f jm&&M frvZ" ? 'JIU W T' as leaders among tho great conductors of WmAv- jjElr&W' J&M&'T'r '"'v P' ll&' H opera, tho military band and the sym- HVMB Kp 'rN' " V . H ' phony orchestra, and whllo their work appeals jJJ AmEbmHBn ' ''J-'V" i ' Hj to an entirely different circle, yet it Is of the ivV aHHff y "" sk W ' "- ' J' 1' same class, only it is not so strenuous, as tho tfLuyjC iIMMM ' '' WRB&t " ' '?!"'& Hj! "work of the collego yell leader. 1&&MV (tiEu' " 'W' ' v ' 3lPiiPi Hjj Tne college noiaemakers get their prelim- V3EPSt 9hHSt ' -fc'" ' ''$ ; $llltr Inary instruction and experience at high school, JRMLi lBm '' -1 & ' '''VJ ' &$M V! and they form a sort of secondary line of jtfMWIk.1 WBBm? v&vMlffi' 'Vc'' ?$$W$ Hjj trenches for the support of the basket-ball Ave, mliwllilr mHkL &$& ' Y"Z Z " mWfM$ H the baseball nine or tho football eleven. It Is fWliiW iMH&M''' "" -" " 00M H Sn these games that tho rooters have their 71l A H" Mfk- ', ' 0MM&t greatest chances to shine. Sometimes in track M ) I T 'i:mN Nav ' '- '"'&' "Wf&&$- i! nnd field meets, especially in tho sprints, noise f) I I I H' Mk,''Wi!S' "1- 0&W& 'H. means something, but it is in the three most 1 ' fr II ( xMg' ' '2iPJHRw ' " W&i H Important college and school sports that tho IMtA Z4M WMmmffi& J $& KJ rooters and the yell leaders shino. And It is IK " ' ' "'pWlmfc 'PF H j iho school or college which has the best-organ- " i ZaaBmmm-' ' jfe. i 'i Jzed band of rooters and tho best yell leader flBB 4$ ' K'V '& 'fHPK" fc. , ' l which, goes into the fray with a certain advan- JHB v' ."'' f Iki'-,. i Hj tagc, even If the team Is weak. jm ' ' "" ' 'V j B- . From the far Kast, Tale, Harvard, Cornell JHL 'y '' "x " t i"$f $rM Wffi?&&L m. j hnd Princeton; through tho Mlddlo West. Chi- J'''V I ' ' ;? X;f- "SJ: Ja Hi cago, Jlinnesota, Wisconsin; through the South, JH ' " . W WMrW M Vanderbilt, Georgia. Tulane. Texas, and on out B 7' Ic V J W$M& ! to th0 coast, Lcland Stanford, California and JM ' 'W &'?& M wMM-k Hj1 M'ashington, tho yell of the rooters sweeps ftiM-- C ' ' "':M'- JB W&MMMy H throughout the college year. In the fall It is " ft ''5- JB BS y ' f'"i- $ ' ' .. - ?. : ,- ,r , J:M 1 H r 4BBk y : ,fflH Hwm Bi' I (ftNv - B fl 1 B HP Bl HIB Hi' xBMiw j Tootball, In tho winter basket ball and In tho Bl spring baseball, but no matter what tho game, j the band of rooters must bo on the Job and the 1 yrll leader must be in position to control his i cohorts. H Toscanlni, Sousa and Zach know before the H performance what they will have to contend H with. They know every note of tho piece to be B rendered and the musiciuns under them know K every note, have rehearsed and are letter p'er- t feet In their parts. There is nothing unforeseen H to contend with. 9 True It Is that sometimes Farrar or Caruso or H Amato may decide to sing an aria at a faster H tempo than the Metropolitan Orchestra starts, H or tho orchestra may lag a note or so behind H the singer, or the chorus may get started wrong, H and then Toscanlni has to got busy with his B baton and get every ono together. Some mill- H tary trumpet may bo a bit off key in a stirring H march, and then Sousa must Bhako his baton in B tho general direction of the offender. Or the HH reeds In a Beethovon symphony may take up B their motif too quickly, and Zach a magic wand H must curb them. B But these are not to be compared with -what HH tho college yell lcador Is likely to go up against B in any game of the season. Anything Is likely to H . happen. If the team is winning, well and good, B The yell leader has almost as easy a. task as H Toscanlni, Sousa or Zach. But it is when the BJ team Is losing that tho yell leader must work. BJ and work hard, It is when it Is hopelessly out- B classed and beaten that the leader must work H his hardest. He must keep his band of rooters B keyed up to encourage the beaten team to keep H on fighting and do Its best to hold the score as B low as possible. Whether the game be footbalu B basket ball or baseball. B Slnco the earfy days of history, noise has H been regarded &3 a great stimulant for the par- m&J jfl y&m of yell leader Is a muchly coveted one, and a: Priam was king and too aged to get out on th( Told and take part In tho contest, there is bu littlt, doubt but that Priam himself directe the rooters, if a yell leader wero needed. When savage tribes battled it was the cus torn to have tho women, children and old mei at the rear, whero they watched tho fight an cheered on the men of their tribe, and tin tribe with the nolser rooters had a slight edge Of course, in the days of Achilles unt Ulysses rooting wasn't a fine art. It was Jusl in its infancy. But like the other arts it ha gathered polish as it came down through 'tin ages until the organized rooting of tho schoo or college no more resembles the ancient rooting root-ing than does the symphony of today resemble the music maIe by Cain and Abel on little whistles, which their father whittled for their out of pieces of wood and which was the firat form of music. Not only does the rooting help tho team, but the rooter himself Is benefited. Everyone likes to mako a noise. Take wmo quiet business man, maybe he Is Mr. Honpeck at home, turn him loose at a baseball game, and listen to him. Ho screams encouragement at tho players play-ers of his home team, heaps noisy vituperations vitupera-tions on tho heads of tho opposing players and wants to lead an assault on tho umpire. Generally Gen-erally the nolscst rooter at the baseball gamo is a quiet, peaceful citizen in cvery-day life. But ho likes to get out and make a nolso and ho gets his excuse at the ball game. It's tho same way with the college student he likes to make a noise and when somo hundreds hun-dreds aro organized Into one big noise-making mass tho effect Is more pleasing to the participant partici-pant as well as tho auditor than If there wero no organization. And then it means chest development, de-velopment, for tho more and tho louder one yells tho more benefit do his respiratory or- wh'n"1; lu th Winter season' bet'een tho ZV?l! buBeball seasons, tho collegian uses his vocal powers to encourage tho basketball basket-ball team, but all through the school year ho has and he grasp., the opportunity to make a noise. . Did you ever see a crowd of baseball rooters. when Its team was outclassed and hopelessly beaten, still keep up their cheering? Generally Gener-ally it's tho other way. No crowd changes more quickly than a bnsoball crowd. Let somo great player, say a Wagner or a Cobb, mako an error or fall to hit In a pinch, and there is a chorus of hoots and jeers. And the home rooters root-ers attack their own men just as quickly as they do the members of tho opposing team. Evoryono who attends college and has tho true collego spirit wants to mako the football team. Those who are not largo enough, or liavo not the strength, vent their enthusiasm in rooting root-ing for their team. The rooters arc organized and they elect a leader. And the man so elected elect-ed receives a high compliment There aro yell l-7 ! ,yeU 1Cadera dn ovr h country, but panels Sullivan, known as "Red," Is surpassed by none In the entire country vt vtwo Tara he has ,cd th0 St- Lou,s LnN light in eery game tho 'University has played $ t x y , $ - B Wi -- zssb&&Z&r t ., , m f k A In that time. Tho forco and energy ho throws into his work and his discriminating judgment are not surpassed cnywhore. Conducting the yelling of a collego crowd is a flno art. Just a3 the art of Toscaninl's in conducting the Metiopolltan opora has won him world-wide fame, and Just llko the art of John Philip Sousa and Max Zach, which have brought them famo In tho musical world. Sullivan takes his art sorlously, Just as Toscanlni, Tos-canlni, Sousa and Zach do. "The nine rahs is tho fundamental' yell," ho said, In discussing his work. "All the other ones aro based on or built around that. Tho ninojis glvon as a mark of honor. Wo give It to our own team when it comes on tho flold and we also give it to tho ODDoalng team when It comes out. Then at tho college banquets wo give it to those we want to pay particular honor to. it's n protty hard task leading the yells. Lots of times tome one calls for nine rahs for some one who's not entitled to it, and It's hard to rofuso to glvo them. "The 'hold-that-llne' yell is used when our team Is In u bad way and tho enemy has tho ball on our -1 or 5 yard line. Does it help our boys? Ask any of them." "You bet your llfo it helps," put In Capt Flug. "When you're out there fighting, whether wheth-er you're losing or winning. It keeps up your spirits to hear a thousand men yelling for you, letting you know that they aro with you. It means encouragement. And encouragement helps In everything, In other linos besides sport." "Then we glvo a yell for the man who's taken out of a game," contlnuod Sullivan. "If he's hurt, ho knows we feel for him. If ho's taken out to make way for somo other man. the yell's I . Thii , 'nW WU rca,lzo h0'3 don h's best. " h.y They always feel bad when they're taken ou '! Ih you know Sometimes thoy come out crying l i and the yell cheers them up a lot. ) Hi oe ta Tn S f.V I110 y" fr U, man who P ? -n. n?,eOf cou.se, thero are the songs Z ? "Bofore tho big- Barnes ut the mass meotltic, ft """d. It's enthusiasm that counts, after all. It's S Iho enthusiasm that w0 put Into our ovoii! 1 P day tasks that helps us aucceou. I rj, J 1 |
