Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1916 — baseball now tame sport [ARTICLE]

baseball now tame sport

Veteran Writer Tells of Assignment He Received in Olden Days— Editor Roasted Tebeau. “Baseball,” says a veteran writer, “isn’t as strenuous, in many ways, as it was years ago. I’ll never forget one assignment I drew in those lively days —that alone would suffice to show how times have changed. “One afternoon Pat Tebeau was specially warlike —attacked the umpire after about every second decision and spiced the argument with highly variegated phraseology. My managing editor was in the audience, and was much flustrated by Tebeau’s style of talk. That night my chief sent for me. “ 'Young man,’ said he, ‘you heard the language that Tebeau person used this afternoon?’ “ ’Yes sir,’ I responded. “ ‘Well,’ thundered the managing editor, ’that sort of thing must stop. Now, then, I want you to go up to Tebeau’s hotel, and tell him, firmly, emphatically, that he,,p’t use that sort of talk in this city, and that you have my orders, if he refuses to exit it, to roast him in the columns of this paper! I’ll show this Tebeau that he can't bluff me!’ “Now, wasn’t that a lovely little assignment to send a young reporter oaf*