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. : : n. ' 1 ? * * FAl Motto: May the best team By Hugh S. s? i (Copyright, 1813, br 1 'Wow! Wow!! Great eye. Eddie! Make him put It across! Bust a fence! You can do It! Wow! Wow!! Wow!!! ROBBER! All right. Tough luck, Eddie. Two and two. Make her be over. Homo run, Eddie, old scout. Break the gate. Wow! Wow!! The red-faced, apoplectic young man In the front row made a trumpet of his hands and yelled until the veins In his neck turned purple. In the middle of the final "Wow" he collapsed, looked disgusted and turning to me said: "What do they keep that hunk of cheese for? He can't hit. Never could. Striking out In a pinch like that!'" The fan, howling encouragement or bawling abuse at the ball players Is the spirit of the 'town. Just howgreat an Influence this spirit exerts upon the playing strength of the team representing the town or city Ms impossiblev of calculation, but it Is certain that It is part of the national game. He and his fellows exert almost as much Influence upon the team as does luck, and this spirit is so Inextricably mixed with the element of luck that It is impossible to determine cause and effect. There are cities In which the loyalty of the fans has waned and turned to gibes, and In these cities no player does well There nre crowds that remain loyal In victory and in defeat. Theso Inspire the players to give their best efforts to win. Hall players will tell you that teams invariably play bet- < ter with friendly crowds applauding. 1 The fan Invariably will respond that he would be loyal provided the club ' would win games enough to Justify i ne piayers accuse ttie fans, the fans accuse the players, and both are In a measure right. The majority of patrons will "root" wh?n the home team is winning. An/ team will play better ball and win oft oner If the patrons are loyal. The fan. voicing the spirit of the town. Is a power for victory or defeat. Conditions In different cities comprising the circuits of the major leagues assert a powerful Influence over their teamn. Players will tell you they would rather play for the / Chicago White Sox or for the New ' York Giants than for any other teams. They will assert that twenty Cobbs could not win a pennant for Cincinnati under conditions which the management is now striving to change. The fanatical loyalty of the White Sox rooter and the Giant patron, the angry abuse of players by the annually disappointed Cincinnati public. the sarcasm and raillery of Washington crowds, trained for yenrs to expect nothing but defeat, have an : Immense effect upon the players and j teams. They make or mar players, and weak men win for one tVDe while brilliant ones fall and lose for the ? other. ( The baseball fan l^an unique Amor- i lean species and the most rabid of all > enthusiasts. Compared with him the j !golf fan. the bridge fan. even the < bowling fan are mild. Ftaseball Is i 1 the most serious pleasuro ever In- 1 vented i Probably tlio most blindly loyal crowd In the world Is that which fol- I lows the fortunes of the Chicago American league team, k and to one c who is disinterested the Chicago sit- f nation is acutely funny. The White f 4 Sox pari: Is located on the south side r 1' I ^ ' j si | Pan I of the city; the Cubs' on the west, t and the city is divided Into two great \ armod camps. In 189fi whan these s two teams, winners of the champion- r ships in their own leagues, met to c contest for the world's championship. ^ It was the loyalty of the south side f crowd beyond doubt that won for the r team. That fall the Chicago Tribune's f } composing room was about equally I divided between the followers of the a 1 two teams and so bitter was the feel- J I -ing that the foreman was compelled I to,separate them and send them to t I different sides of the building to main- f I tain peaco. It was civil war all over ? I 1 Chicago. I It is a magnificent crowd, wonderful f B In its spirit and In its intense loyalty. \ B There are few things that shake an t I opponent like the incessant: "Get a i t H hit," "Get a hit." which In the war , t I I % NS \ s win; But ours is the best 1 u ' p Fullerton c f! . r ? a iV. G. Cbuiimito) I f tong of the Sox rooters when they I c jcent victory. One of the most dramatic displays 11 if loyalty I ever saw was in 1907. ' vhen the team, beaten and displaced rom the championship, came home to 11 :loso the season. They had gone n iway In high hopes, and failed. It 1 ivas Sunday, and ns the defeated E tenm inarched down the field 17,000 1 men and women stood silent nnd un- ^ lovered for a moment, then broke n Into applause that swept the stands. v It is small wonder that a team back- 4 ^>d always by such loyalty won even I during years when it seemed much ^ weaker than its opponents. I have heard opposing players de- 1 :lare they would rather face anything c in the game than the grinding "root- v ing" of tlie Chicago south side fans. ' The only duplicate I know is the a rasping, nerve-racking, long Yale yell 1 Not all players are frank enough to * idmit tlint the rooting has any effect. Indeed it is a common pose to pretend that they do not even hear Hut they do. Even among themselves they pretend they do not care; but snce in a while they tell their inner feelings. They know that half the men who quit the major leagues are driven out by the voice of the fan. 1 have seen men break and go all to [tieces, rave nnd swear and abuse Bveryone after suffering a cruel grill- ! ng by a crowd. Walter Wllmot, one of Anson's famous old Chicago players, came to a mime on the old grounds fifteen years after retiring. Ho looked across toward the left field and said: "There's some of them out there low I'd like to choke." Yet the roar of the crowd does not break them ns quickly as does some sharp thrust of sarcasm or biting wit from an Individual. Perhaps that ihaft is only the last straw, hut when a player Is in a nervous collapse he jsually rages at some individual who mid something to him. Josh Rellly, me of the merriest, happiest players [ ever knew, "blew up" one day and aad to be restrained from assaulting three or four thousand men In the bleachers. 'I)ld you hear what he said?" de- ' manded Rellly as the other players 1 rled to restrain him. "What did he say?" inquired some- 1 >ne. ' "He said: 'Rellly, you're a disgrace T o the Irish'," and then he raged ' igain. x One of the quickest things I ever leard was a remark from a Wash- F ngton fan which upset Frank Isbell. * he veteran, completely. Isbell's head ! s as bald as a concrete pavement. J ind usually he kept his cap plastered ightly on his head to shield himself * 'rom the gibes of crowds. This time ' le tried to steal second and made a ' lesperate, diving slide around and un- 1 ler the baseman only to be called ] 1 nit. He was so enraged that he ran s it the umpire, grasped his arm, ar- ' ?ued and raved and finally in sheer y inger, jerked off his cap, hurled it into the ground and Jumped upon It. a lis bald head glistened in the Bun- u ight and the crowd roared. Then, o ibove the roar came a voice: i "Put on that cap. They pinched ! t dar>^ Garden here for less than that."] Possibly more trying than any con- j t :erted rooting Is the incessant nag- | s ;ing to which players on the Polo t grounds. New York, are subjected, a The one great bit of rejoicing among t 1 v | t * am * - * " * a . t > v * I t \m \^ K* V. > t . >s : ! f A i \ in 4 11 ft k " ? 1 C ho National league players last year 1 v vhon they saw the wonderful Mrush p tadium was that the crowd could not | a nake itself heard on the field as it I f lid In the old stands. The Polo h pounds crowd Is odd. Somehow | a ans who occupy box seats either are j I lot as rabid as those in the cheaper , L icats or they are on their good be- I p lavlor. and a fringe of box seats is , C m effective shield for players j s Strangely enough the crowds on the h Cow York American league park, al- u hough quite as noisy, are much fair- ti >r. than the crowds at the Polo " [rounds. n One would think that visiting play- h >rs would like to play on grounds 1< vhere the home team is unpopular s hrough defeat or other causes, but T hey do not. They rather resent the h lome crowd abusing the home men. | w \ n Cincinnati. Brooklyn and Washlngon. during most of the season, the rowds are bitterly sarcastic toward he home teams, although the Brooky*n crowds are deceut except on Satirdavs. St. I.ouls affords a queer tudy of the crowds. When the Irowns are at home the crowds are gly and vent their temper upon the layers, yet half a dozen blocks away. >n the rival park, there assembles a rowd wilder and more frantically In ??v?i ?ji nit? nunie lenm anu more uneasoning in partisanship than almost ny in the country. Just where this eeling arises is hard to discover. The rowd is violent in temper when the earn Is winning, worse when It Is losag. Perhaps long years of bitter deeat have caused It. In Iloston and Philadelphia, on both aa.ior league parks, the home players nd visitors are almost upon equal erms. and the spectators applaud :ood plays irrespective of the players, "hey see baseball under the best coalitions, with both teams encouraged .nd giving their best efforts to the rork. Pittsburgh Is had because of he gnmhling that has become almost tart of the game In the Smoky City. The temper of the crowd is ugly and he losing element Is in evidence no natter whether the home club wins ir loses. Detroit is a loyal, rather iolent crowd, tamed now because the ans have learned to endure victory is well as defeat. The crowds were and with enthusiasm the first year Deroit won and have since tamed down "They Pinched Mary Gai )ne of the queer things in that city a the baiting of George Mullin, the reteran pitcher. Mullin ia a jolly, lulck-wltted joker and years ago he >egan talking back to the bleachers. was warned that the bleacherites vould put him out of the business. >ut persisted. Kvery afternoon he vould walk down in front of the deachers and engage in a verbal ikirniish with the crowd, trying to lold hta own at rough repartee with undreds. Ho abused the crowd, aughed at them, accused them of quitting," and enjoyed it. If he had aken it seriously the result might lave been different, but after a time t became part of the game and now he spectators in the bleachers would lot be satisfied if Mullin forgot to itart a skirmish. Last summer, gong out on a car in Detroit, three oung fellows were talking. "Oh, I've got a peach of a get-hack it him today," said one. and. nt the irgent request of the others he drew lut a card and read what he was gong to say to'Mullin if he came near heir seats It is not the great crowds that atend the crucial games that exert the trongest Influence over players. True here is a natural nervousness nmong ill the players when a tremendous hrong gathers to see them, as in vorld's series games; hut the ones hat help the home team, or damage t. are the crowd of from six to ten housand, stirred up by tho "regulars" vho, day after day and season after eason. incite those around tliem "here are thousands of these regulars, elf-appointed claques or cheer mas ers, and some of them feel as if they re doing as much to help the team o victory as if they were out there on he mound pitching. The large crowds isually are the fairest and most portsmanllke. for In these great gathrings the rabid and partisan fan Is Dst and his utterances are smothered 'hese crowds police themselves and he players feel safe and assured of nir play. and. after the first nervousess passes, they play their best. A baseball crowd is much like a nob. Without a leader it is just noise nd turmoil, hut with one recognized reader it can do much. A few years go a number of Chicago men atempted to carry out a theory that the rowd needed leaders and the result ias one of the most dangerous ex erlments ever attempted The White lox rooters organized a hand men fir above average intelligence, who aid daily plans for inciting crowds nd stirring up enthusiasm. The loard of Trade Rooters operated at oth Chicago parks, being organized rltnnrily to attack McfJraw ami the Hants. They wrote and circulated ongs. Invented Ingenious methods of arassing a worthy foe. and to force ndeserved victory upon the home earns. The Idea spread rapidly Rooters' clubs" were organized in lany cities and towns to help the ome teams. For a few weeks It joked as if the new movement would eriously endanger the national game he crowds grew more and more vlo*nt. Then, suddenly and without arning almost, the wildest efforts of. / the cheer masters Tell ttat?In Chi- . cago at least. The harder the leaders of the rooters worked the more apa- | tlietic the crowds became. It Whs an interesting phenomenon and I set out to discover the reason. The first bleacherlte I met solved the problem. "Dem guys ain't on do square." he said. "I'suns out In de bleachers dor/t want to rob nobody." There was the solution. No matter how partisan a baseball fan may be| come, or lipw wild in his desire to. see | the home team win, deep down he wants fair play. and. after a time, he will insist upon it. The rooters' clubs i died ! Tl- - - - i uere are lew or tiie noreu rans j now, chiefly because the papers selI dom mention them. Perhaps they exist. In the old days almost every I club had one or two such followers. Probably the best known was "Hi HI." This was General Dlxwell. of ! Hoston. who for many years followed the fortunes of the famous old Hoston club. He is wealthy, intellectual and a cultured gentleman who became completely absorbed in baseball He followed the team wherever it went and became a familiar figure all over tin' country. He occupied a front seat in the stands, kept a careful score and studied the game with a seriousness that was appalling. He maintained a deep silence during almost all the game, but when a really great play was made he emitted two sharp staccato barks: "Hi! Hi!" and | then dropped to silence again. His | i 1 J I I ? ] den for Less Than That." ! War crv cave him his namo IT.? nnIf attending baseball games years ago. but still continues bis deep Interest in | I the sport, and in bis apartments he keeps a wonderful set of books showing the averages and performances of players for many baseball generations. ' "Well. Well. Well." was another character who was named because of his cry. which followed Just after a big outburst of applause on the part of the crowd. The moment the applause subsided his "Well, well, well." would boom over the field and never failed to start the cheering again The average crowd is cruel, because it is thoughtless Few of the fans who hurl abuse and criticism at the players stop to think that the men they are addressing have the capacity to feel and to suffer Many a thoughtless. barbed jest has wrecked the career of some ball player. It took the players a long time to discover the ran mat ineir popularity and their ( safety from abuse lies tti presenting n i good-natured appearance, no matter i what happens, and in answering quea- v } tlons when possible. t If you go through league after i league, team by team, you will tlnd that the most popular player, in nine cases out of ten. is some outfielder. He probably is not the best player, but he has the most devoted following. becaus* he keeps on friendly terms with the men and hoys who sit $55 The Baseball Fan Is a Unique Amer- j lean Species. ^ behind him. In fact, almost every ' outfielder has his own regular pat- ' rons, who attend games and seek t seats as near to him as possible, and < who defend him against all comers I To them he Is the best In the world, ? a "(Ireater than Cobb," nor do they * forget him; the player who finally dis- ' places an idol has a hard time. I ' have known them to follow a player ' around the field when he was shifted 8 from one to another position and to I battle for him with the retainers of ! the other fielder who dared criticise him ' Itiased, prejudiced and distorted In f their views as most of them are. they * are very human and very lovable In H their blind devotion to the game, and ' in their unreasoning hatred. And a 8 word of warning: Never try to nr ' gue with a real, dyed ln-the-wool, 8 thirty-second-degree fan. In the first r place the chances are he is right, but ' even If he is wrong there Isn't a chance to win the argument. ' 8 TOOLS FOR A GARDEN s F< Implements Are Demanded for Proper Cultivation. . t pi Old-Fashioned Hoe and Rake Will Not 'n Supply All the Needs of the Up-to Date Gardener?Some Good m Ones Are Illustrated. ra (Ry C. S. MILLER.) th The growing of vegetables and fruit has become so important that lmproved tools aro now demanded for fr> proper cultivation. In order to get the very beat results cultivation must ^ bo carried to tho limit and the old- ^ fnshioned hoe and rako will not sup- ^ ply all the needs of the upto-date gardener. Those shown In tho accompanying picture aro all extremely useful, and as they cost but a trltlo nobody who expects to do the best work in a garden can afTord to be without them. ^ No. 1 is the hoe, and is remarkable for tho great number of uses to which it can bo put in both field and garden. No. 2 is especially useful for covering seeds and for heavy weeding. No. 3 is a combined hoe and rake ^ and enables tho operator to do either hoeing or raking without laying aside J one tool and tnklng up tho other. No. 4 Is a hand weeder to scratch ^ weeds out of flower beds and pots. No. 5 is one of tho most useful tools ^ that can be used. It Is extremely . tni ? on ^ ml L pr Improved Garden Tools. kn In< useful, not only in spading, but In <jri cutting out weeds close to large plants ^ and trimming walks and beds. 8U| No. 6 is a handy litttle tool about (j,, Lite flower bed. You can transplant, pulverize and mix earth nrenarntnrv to planting, loosen the earth about (jll plants and do numerous other things of with It. LESS WORK FOR HOUSEWIFE cu BIT Introduction of Modern Engine brl Thresher Takes Many Burdens th< From Shoulders of Women. Tho work of the farm housowifo lias been greatly lessened by the use if engine threshers. Formerly when Farmers went about from one farm to mother, helping each other to thresh lie grain, the farm-wife wus compelled to cook for gangs of men, often 'or days at a time, and with Beldom ' iufflcient help, her lot was Indeed a tard one. Now, tho owner of an en?ino thresher rides about the country Eu luring the summer days making his threshing contracts. In the fall he organizes his force and starts on his we ounds?he provides ull tho men n<?c- rtn ;ssary. takes along a tent, employs a an' ;ook and relieves the farmer and his eri 'ainily of all work in connection with 'oc hresbing. A counting machine regis- nu era the number of bushels turned sh< >ut, and when his work is ended ho pot eceivos the farmer's check for his pot lervices, hooks up his teams to the tra traction engines and goes on to tho th< text Held. lur pr< Clover Bloat. ar< Bloat In cattle generally comes as ^r? the result of pasturing clover, though w'> It Is a fact that in somo cases ordl- al)' lary grass pasture will produce the di\ mine results if It Is rtuik when cattle hat have not been used to it are turn- T" d In. The importance of getting cat- _[ tie used to clover while It is dry can- ~ lot bo overemphasized. L_ it may bo necessary In some indances to turn thorn in for an hour j >r two only during the middle of the ' lay, and continue this for two or rig liroo days, ho that the ravenous edge j or the new clover iH taken off their ha' ippetltes. Under no circumstances 1 should they he turned from a dry lot mi vhon they are hungry Into a clover 1 leld. for 1 Looking to the Pedigree. cot Look at the pedigree of the Htalllon -'ou patronize, arid if it is not issued ' >y one of the recognized registry as- t'n inflations don't use that horse. Many armors will contend that a grade 4 torse that is a good looker is just as far ;ood for a sire as a pure-bred, and ra^ xpense Is much lighter. Some of the handsomest, soundest *nd md most perfect horses aro grades, an md, while they are splendid anintnls 1 or use, they are unsuitable to breed fee o. Every grade has a yellow streak the n him. and this is just as likely to '1 ihow as his good qualities. full ed Good Bedding for Horses. ^ A good way to keep a horse clean oitl n the stable Is to clean out all dirt, I,a' tc., and then cover the floor about T hroo or four inches thick with dry ing awdust, as far back in stall as the ma lorHO usually stands, then cover the I awdust with straw, or bedding that age rou may use. The sawdust will ab- of i orb the moisture, and therefore hat nake the other bedding last longer 5 n case it is scarce. The sawdust ol ihould be replaced by fresh occasion- the illy. ko? UPPLEMENT TO A PASTURE ceding Corn 8llage la Moat EconomW cai Method of Supplying Feed to Help Out Paature. (By TL a. WEATHER8TONB.) Green crops fed aa a supplement to isture may be fed In the paature or the barn lot but as a rule are fed ost economically in the barn. The >ws remain Inside long enough at liking time to eat their portions. As a rule the most economical etbod of supplying feed to help out e short pastures of midsummer and 11 Is to feed corn silage. Silage will ep in good condition for summer edlng with no loss except on the rface. If it Is not needed during e summer, It may be-covered with o new silage and kept until wanted. >rn furnishes a larger yield of dry atter per acre than any crop that n be ordinarily grown for summer edlng. and haB the further advange of being on hand as early as inted. It Is handled more economically also an soiling crops since it is cut all once and not every day as is necesry with soiling crops. It should be remembered that it is ly possible to feed a bunch of cows onomically when they are fed as dlvlduals and not as a herd. A 0 common practice, even In the herwise well conducted herds, is for 1 animals to be fed the same amount grain, regardless of the time they vo been in milk or the quantity of lk the individual cows are produc?. Such feeding always lacks econly, as the high producing cow does t get enough, and while she may ,1k very well for a time, she soon mes down to a lower level, while a lighter producing cow usually tB too much feed and accumulates AKE-UP OF JERSEY CATTLE eed Attracts Notice by "Dairy" Type of Their Bodily Conformation?Some of Characteristics. (Ry R. M. GOW.) The characteristics which mark the esent race of Jersey cattle are own to have been notable and promHit in the breed at least one huned and fifty years ago, so that now ?y have become thoroughly "fixed," re to be inherited by their progeny, us affording the breeder a sure fountion for further development. , The main external characteristics of 5 Jerseys are the beautiful softness the various tints of fawn and gray their coats of hair; their gracefully ined deer-Ilke limbs; their neat, Inrvlng horns, large limped eyes, lull heads nnd delicate noses; their ight, attractive and intelligent faces; eir soft yellow skin, long tails and rotas, 2454. Record for One Year, 778 Pounds of Butter. Il-developed switches; their full, inded-out udders, straight backs, d the One proportions of their genii conformation. The Jersey cow iks the high-bred lady of the cattle :e. Well-developed male animals mid weight from 1400 pounds to 1800 unds, and females, from 750 to 1200 unds. Above all else, Jerseys atict notice by the "dairy" type of dr bodily conformation, by their go'and well-formed udders, and eminent milk veins. In color they j of-various shades of soft fawn, mi red to Bilvery, with more or less lite, broken color being unobjectionle except from the standpoint of Inddual taste. }.AII?Y NOTE'S \ silb Will pay for Itself in one year, le sure that tho calves are started ht. V farmer owning six cows should ve a silo. $e sure that the temperature of the Ik is right. t is not possible to grow too much age on a dairy furm. V comfortable stablo reduces the it n f fo n I n t orio nnn onH - V Vk tiiit*itbv>*iuiiv? UUU IIIV/ICOOOD U1Q iv of milk. 'eed regularly, not too much at a le, and young calves at least foux ies a day. Nothing can be marketed on th? m so Huccessfully or so economlly as butter. riie dairyman who does not keep an livldual record of his cows Is not up-to-date dairyman. 1 f the mow Is nearly .ompty and the d low In the bin, don't cut down i rations of the cows. Pho dairy farm that Is stocked to its I capacity without being overstockIs a pretty safe Investment. >Vhen an animal forms a habit, tier g6od or bad, that habit Is a t of Its life aB long as It lives, training the butter well before : altijH one of tho little things ken for a better quality of product. Ixperlrnent* have proven the aver i jnilk cow requires about an ounce ?alt per day. Heavy milkers shoulJ Success does not lie In the number coWs the dairyman keeps, but la kind he keeps and the way 1m