Spalding's official college base ball annual1911- . he rules and the umpire for all he can get outof them. His view of the game is intensely practical, and toexpect of him a sportsmans ideal is like expecting of a reporterbashful considerateness. He plays according to his lights, and isoften entitled to respect for his character as well as to admirationfor his skill. The amateur is not merely the player who receives no money;he is the player who through any contest, however hot, is a gen-tleman playing a game. Chattering behind the bat to unnervethe batsman, whooping on the side-lines to unner
Spalding's official college base ball annual1911- . he rules and the umpire for all he can get outof them. His view of the game is intensely practical, and toexpect of him a sportsmans ideal is like expecting of a reporterbashful considerateness. He plays according to his lights, and isoften entitled to respect for his character as well as to admirationfor his skill. The amateur is not merely the player who receives no money;he is the player who through any contest, however hot, is a gen-tleman playing a game. Chattering behind the bat to unnervethe batsman, whooping on the side-lines to unnerve the pitcher,blocking a runners path before catching the ball, crowding- orprying a runner off the base, or grabbing him and holding himwhen the umpire does not see—these things, even such of themas are countenanced by the press and the public, are not for him. Young people are inclined in many things to get their standardsof manners and ethics where they get their standards of professional Base Ball they see and hear the kings of the. SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 7 game doing as a matter of course such things as I have enumer-ated. The press commends one great player for using his headand by a colHsion preventing a double ; another for nerveand skill in blocking and prying men off the base with his inter-fering foot. In the worlds series, according to one writer,runners had to cut their way to a base through men who divedin front of them; and with every allowance for exaggeration,the remark is significant. In a letter to the press one of the bestknown and most respected players in that series declared that hiswhole team, on the bench and in the field, tried to unnerve theopposing pitcher and that the manager and the captain workedthemselves hoarse in the effort. When such things are done by the greatest players and are sofar countenanced by press and public that umpires lack thecourage—and perhaps the wish—to stop them, it is natural forthe young and imita
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