Judge — May 26, 1923 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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s to be philosophical and con- ice himself that the idea of the tin ns is to give him something to water ve roses with. As opposed to Type A, the fan just eseribed, who enjoys jumping on Ruth th both feet, there is Type B, the fan lio rushes about breaking lances for his fol. He is the lunatic who, after one ad ball is pitched to the Sovereign of Smite, greets the pitcher with, “Let m hit it, you big mutt! You're a f him!’ The fact that the next ball pitched cuts the hee doesn’t change his opini A single bad one served to the Babe. means to him that e pitcher, fearing the possibility of 1 homer, is trying to issue a deliberate To him the bad balls are inten- 1, the good ones an accident. “He can't help sticking over a good one once 1a while, the big stiff, even if he doesn’t want to,” is the way he views things. "Pore C of the Ruthian erities is the guy who doesn’t know whether he hates Ruth or likes him. An incident we witnessed at the Polo Grounds last summer gives a good close-up of him. Ruth caught a fast curve on the end of his bat and sent it crashing into the Duty and muscular training combined. It looked like Babe!” < of us, upper right field: stand. a sure home run. “Attaboy shouted a gleeful fan in ba “show him what you can do!” Then a tragic thing happened. “Foul ball!” yelled the umpire. The ball had taken a wide sweep and landed a few feet to right of the white bar that marks fair territory. Ruth ruefully resumed his place at bat. Half a minute later he dribbled a weak roller to first and was out unassisted. “The big bum!" jeered the same fan who applauded when he thought the hit was a homer, “Who told him he could hit? Whereupon a us he is The Perfect Fan—made other spectator—and to this Reta Comes oO" BE the story Turovcn Axp Wins THE Mon's AccLaim; Or: Base Strikes Our iw Pincu wien Court Wovutp nave Won Hanrp-Foveur Game Or: Ruta Carus Usmprre Piece oF CHEESE Axp Earns 4 Day or Rest; (Laxpts Makes Vow: “Tit Not ALLow My Umps To Be Oppressen.”’) Or be it nothing more than that Mandarin of Maul and pie for dinner, why, headlines tell it all! The And rightly so! For whether he Is hitting hard or fizzling, The King of Klout, without a doubt, Is drama, hot and sizzling! » Giants robbed Though last fall when th Bambino of some ‘The doubters said: “The king is dead™ He's still a front-page story! Ruth crushed to earth will rise again! For when the heads ignore The Babe we see how quickly he Reverts to Type once more: SULTAN or Swat Makes Giarinc Mere, Bur Makes ATONEMENT WHEN He Socks THE Pit. To Buxker Hine Anpb Scores 4 Dozen Mew: Or: Roru SEVENTEEN-BaGcer, Waicn Nosopy Exse Has Done; Crowp THunpers CHEERS IN SLUGGER'S Ears As Turituinc Game 1s Won! Hirs give me headlines, large and black, To satisfy my lust nent this stirring gent astute comment on the ups and downs of the Biffing Bambino: “When he knocks a homer he's the The Big Bam, when he doesn’t he’s We The Big Bum.” This fan is Type D rn or the philo- sophical kind, And he is in no obscure minority. either. There are thousands of him. And there are thousands of others who, while outwardly ferocious, are at heart in accord with him, After all, it is asking too much of a man to be fair always. It isn’t human, } ECENTLY we discussed the 1-eating with Christy “Some of them are honest-to-goodness rowdies, ll admit,” said Matty. “As long as I remember an experience of mine years ago in Philadelphia ll have 9 to grant that. I refer to the time a mob followed our carriages from the ball park (we had no autos in those da, and heaved bricks at us. But that was the serious experience of its kind I've had. Many fans when they razz a ball- player do so because they're really for him. They build a heroic legend around a man and expect him to do the impossi- ble. When he talls down the crumbles and they feel hurt. “Take him out! they yell. They've placed limitless confidence in this man and he hasn't lived up to it. Later on, when he comes through, they cheer him. ‘The legend is revived. Maybe he’s as good as they thought. Some call this fickle- ness. Perhaps it is. To me it is just one of the vagaries of hero worship.” Tier the bleachers roughneck is fre- quently much tamer than he seems is proven by an episode we witnessed not long ago. A- thoughtless fan had been standing up during the course of a game and obscuring the view of those in front of him. A, peevish fan threw a rolled-up newspaper at him and knocked his hat off. Another fan threw a soggy only orange that bounced off his head. Soon there was a shower of miscellaneous objects. In the course of the bombard- ment the vietim’s eyeglasses were knocked off and broken. ‘Instantly one of the fans who was responsible for the barrage started taking up a collection and ina few minutes the bombardiers had sub- scribed the money needed to buy the bom- barded a new pair of specs. Whereupon the recipient of the money rose from the séat lie Hadlitaken andl started, with ere cffusiveness, to. thank his benefactors. “Sit down, you poor fish!” shouted one of the fans who had contributed to the eyeglass fund. ‘The poor boob di sit down soon enough to suit later a gooey ice cream cone fl itself against his ne You see, this contributor to. the eyeglass fund) was willing to be fair but—with the rough- he didn’t neck’s aversion for gushing thanks. want an effusive speech of (Continued on page 31) Playing on the carpet. comicbooks.com