Spalding's official college base ball annual1911- . hey should look to him for training in the gameitself, not in the violations of sportsmanship that have attachedthemselves to it; nor should they suffer him to tamper withtheir sense of honorable competition. If when the play beginshe neither shouts nor signals, and, instead of directing the gamefrom the bench, sits with the spectators, leaving in command thecaptain he has taught, he does his part in the maintenance ofamateur sport. Base Ball is too fine a game to be saddled with bad mannersand bad ethics, which are not more essential to it t
Spalding's official college base ball annual1911- . hey should look to him for training in the gameitself, not in the violations of sportsmanship that have attachedthemselves to it; nor should they suffer him to tamper withtheir sense of honorable competition. If when the play beginshe neither shouts nor signals, and, instead of directing the gamefrom the bench, sits with the spectators, leaving in command thecaptain he has taught, he does his part in the maintenance ofamateur sport. Base Ball is too fine a game to be saddled with bad mannersand bad ethics, which are not more essential to it than to lawntennis. In Base Ball the standards of manners and ethicsaccepted by the professionals and by the public are not such asthe amateur can afford. Let the amateur learn from the pro-fessionals the game itself, together with the self-control and thecourage that characterize the best of them; but let him rememberthat he has no such reason as theirs for regarding what wouldbe bad sportsmanship in almost anything else as legitimate inBase SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. The Collegian as a Major League Player By President Byron Bancroft Johnson of the AmericanLeague. Professional Base Ball as associated with the college player ofthe great American game, is not a one-sided proposition by anymeans. It is very true that the players who have come into profes-sional Base Ball have done the great game much good. Butit is also true that professional Base Ball has done much forthe sport in the colleges and especially for those men who havestepped from the amateur to the professional ranks. It is unfair to assume that one code prevails in college BaseBall and another in the professional game. It may be true thatthe coach of a college squad has a more intimate knowledgeof the doings of his men. That is explained by the fact thatthe college coach spends all of his time with his charges. Thatadvantage is offset when the collegian comes into professionalBase Ball by the fact thai the p
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