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Updated: June 12, 2025
Self must be merged and a sportsmanlike spirit cultivated that prefers defeat to tricks and secret practise, and a clean game to the applause of rooters and fans, intent only on victory, however won.
Lehigh began to grin with the ease of the thing now. One after another men walked to bases on called balls, until all of the bags were occupied. Suddenly Kennedy, after taking a twist on the ball, signaled Maitland. The captain turned the umpire and spoke. "Kennedy's old trick! He's gone stale and Tatham is down at hospital," passed from mouth to mouth among the home rooters.
"Stranathan, up here on Madden's Hill we know how to treat visitors. We'll play with your ball.... Now keep your gang of rooters from crowdin' on the diamond." "Boss, it's your grounds. Fire 'em off if they don't suit you.... Come on, let's git in the game. Watcher want field er bat?" "Field," replied Daddy briefly. Billy Gale called "Play," and the game began with Slugger Blandy at bat.
Again the Place rooters howled. MacNeff watched his second strike go by. The third pitch, remorselessly true to that fatal place, retired him on strikes; and a roll of thunder pealed from under the Wayne bleachers. Starke struck at the first ball given him. The Place waiters were not waiting on Ken to-day; evidently the word had gone out to hit.
If Harvard football heroes and their "rooters," for example, wish to let their hair grow long and wear high turtle-necked red "sweaters," corduroy trousers and huge "frat" pins, I, for one, can see no grave objection, for "boys will be boys" and I am, I hope, no "old fogy" in such matters.
Like the college scrub teams the hardest rooters for the Varsity are to be found in their ranks. Now for the game itself. Always hard fought, always well fought, there is perhaps no clash of all the year that so wakes the interest of the general public, that vast throng which, without college affiliations, is nevertheless hungry for the right of allegiance somewhere, somehow.
As the fifth of the Lehigh batsmen stepped up to the plate, the Lehigh cheers resounded, and West Point's rooters sat in tense silence. What was the matter with Kennedy? But the Army pitcher struck out his man, and Lehigh went out to grass without having scored. Lehigh's revenge, though, was swift. Three West Point men were struck out almost as rapidly as they could move to the plate.
Gibson dropped his stick in a dazed way, muttering: "Great Scott! it was a straight ball and close to my fingers!" He might have shouted the words and not been heard, for the Yale rooters were getting in their work for fair. They gave one great roar of delight, and then came the college yell, followed by the freshman cheer.
The Seward men and their "rooters" came in trainloads from New York and Boston, and both in Chicago and Charleston a plentiful supply of whiskey had its share in the manufacture of enthusiasm. Cameron was the stumbling-block of the conservative Eastern Republicans, and he was expected to command his price.
And they succeeded in packing the galleries of the Convention Hall with a perfectly organized claque-"rooters," the modern American would say. The result on the third ballot was a rush to Lincoln of all the enemies of Seward, and Lincoln's nomination amid a roaring frenzy of applause.
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