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1958 ■ ••• I, but n as- i Friday, July 11, 1958 THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C. Page 5 At Seen in The Mirror's SPORTS of Athletes and Events New Bern’s Sunday school league is getting plenty of bad publicity these days. Unfortunately, some of it seems to be deserved. Criticism has stemmed from the behavior of adult spectators, rather than the actions of small fry parti cipating in the thrilling, hotly contested games that have charac terized the season now in progress. Biggest squawk to date stemmed from a recent occasion when one of the youngsters needed to retire only one more batter to achieve a no-hitter and blank the opposing ball club. Grown-ups supporting the team that was trailing by a 2-0 margin gave the kid who was pitching a good going-over. Coupling their mass vocalizing with horn blowing and other distracting antics, they upset the boy sufficiently to put him on a streak of wildness. Instead of a no-hitter, he allowed enough walks in the closing mo ments of the game to give the other team a 2-2 tie for the night’s nip and tuck battling. Some of our best friends won’t like our saying so, but it seems to us that a lot more than just win ning or losing a ball game was in volved in a spectacle such as this. No one can blame a parent or a friend if he roots for his favorite team. However, there’s a sickening taste to this business of getting so eager for victory that you’ll gang up on a kid pitching in a Sunday school league, and give him the same rough treatment that profes sional ball players are subjected to. It isn’t the hardest thing in the world for a buffch of adults to un nerve a kid who is very much in We Carry Popular, Sacred and Classical Sheet Music FULLER'S MUSIC House the spotlight. Professionals who learned to steel themselves against boos and cat calls often blow sky high, so this boy didn’t have much chance when a formidable group of grown-ups gave him the works. Maybe we are a bit confused about the aims and intentions of the Sunday school league. All along we were under the impression that it was organized to provide whole some recreation for the town’s small fry. We thought, and still do, that teaching good sportsmanship was even more important than' scoring the most runs. Everybody likes to win. That’s one of our childhood cravings that we never outgrow. Yet, learning to lose gracefully, when you’ve jlone your best, is the true mark of greatness in sports and everything else. Those kids in the Sunday school league want to be champions. A few of them will get the thrill of being on a championship team, All of the others will have to settle for the next best thing. Like the rest of us, they’ll have to settle for the next best thing lots of times from here on out, in baseball and in everything else. If you give the game all you’ve got, then you’ve played like a champion, whether you finish on top or end up on the bottom. Part of playing like a champion is do ing the fair thing—the sporting thing. Generally speaking, the kids playing in the Sunday school league are displaying a sportsmanship far beyond their years. They are a credit to themselves, to the church they represent, and to baseball. New Bern needs such a league, and owes a debt of gratitude to those who brought it into being. The league needs fans, too, who will root for their team. No one can blame a fan who pulls for his fav orite team, as long as he stays within the bounds of fairness, good taste and sportsmanship. SHORT-CHANGED The trouble with pulling strings is that you never know who is pull ing at the other end. 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