CASTLEGAR NEWS, ‘Thursday, June 15,. 1961

‘Little Leagues Aren't the Big Leagues’ Says League Coach

By ip snare R cera

oe tthe third out, and the
artiaan parents in the grandstand

p
ack| how! with’ disappointment." “Don't

just stand there, stupid!” ‘shouts
one outraged voice. “You got to
atrike at it, Charlie! ‘You got to try
to hit it”

Tt is the boy's father who is

his poatton on the field, it 1s ob-
ylous that he 4s crying.

I witnessed this incident — and
many others just ss heartbreaking | ,
— Inst season’ as coach for one of
our town’s Little League teams.
‘This month more than one million

will begin playing In the 5400
Little Leagues around the world,

pounds and shouting.
cle go taut as he crouches et the The boy walks dejectedly to the
te, bench for his glove, His eyes stop
for a moment in the grandstand.
He sees his father still waving his
farms in disgust. As the boy trots to

children 8 to 12 years of age.
Little League baseball is a
eplenaie opportunity to teach‘ boys
the basic facts of alae and eporta-
end fair play.
Sut all too many parents apoil the
by

lost a close’ game, iT aat the whole
teom on the bench and congratu-
lated ‘them for trying, for acting
Uke gentlemen. I said I couldn't
have been prouder of them if they
‘| sd won. Most of all, I said, it ts
as important to be a good loser as 8
gracious winner. As I talked I could
see their spirits lifting, I felt they
had learned more than just how to
play. baseball that night. |

But as I mingled with ‘the hs

ents in the stands afterwards,
was shocked to hear what they Scie
gaying to the boys. The invariable

‘boys, and. certain concepts guide us.

‘We stress the will to win, and
we believe that enthusiasm, even
an occasional ruhbarb, s'6 part of
baseball. And we think that parents
shoutd' be encouraged ‘to
their boy and the team on which
he plays, But some parents have
exaggerated ‘Ideas of what’ const!-

er’ parents, ‘fathers and mothers
abuse thelr ‘boya for not fielding
ke: Red Schoendienst, hitting ‘like
Mickey Mantle or pitching like Ver-
non Law,. They humiliate them
mith” constant, nagging criticism.

the mother ‘screaming epithets at

‘| her eager little boy of ten who un-

luckily ‘got caught off first base
for the third out. And the foghorn.|
yoleed father who dictated from

should: make when in trouble out
on the mound, And the fathers who
pay money for hits: extra money,
for extra base hits — ten dollars
for a home run in one family T
know, At this point, Little League

baseball loses its purpose,

‘Many of these parents are aim-
ply worrled about how ‘they ' will

support | diatrician,

tutes support. In. front of team-|%
own | mates, managers, coaches and oth-

1 My. blood stilt bolls ax I recat |!

through stop signs and cheat on his

income tax,

Little League baseball has come

‘under heavy fire from medical men.

Dr, John L,.'Refchert, a Chicago pe.
summarizes

views: “Strong emotional reactions
are'too often engendered by high-

make the team or who falls to
make the crucial play, the obvious
tof the parent when
pe ‘fate, the apparent, difference
in social’ acceptance ;by- playmates
and adults. between. winners, and
jonerg —- all these.can have & pro-
found. effect on a child's emotional
Gocial development.”
ect Teams otticiels reply

for the boys when ‘the team loses,
& sarotmani dhias Shere: wi) Bee

exaggerated, emphasis | on’: victory,
‘Thousands of parenta could sauate
this:

the’ critics’ |+ acertopaoe

‘Wait - till. you've enjoyed the ‘Juxury ¢° modern Ee |

appointments.to make your comfort comple!

‘children really

hhow to’ accept defeat? Do’ they learn
how to get along with other people?
Children in the: 8-to-12 age group
ere ready for competition, says Dr.
Shaffer, but they should not be ex.
ploited. for the -benefit of adults.
Ey too many competitive leagues

with back=

look in the eyes of their
ae, assume that’ their.son’s ac-
cast an

theme ‘was, “Well, what
to you tonight?” One father pul-
led out a note pad and went over
his. son's mistakes play «by Psy.
another father dressed down hi

minutes the parents had undermin-
ed every principle I had set forth.
+ ‘Our-town has 12 Litde League
and 28 “Minor” League teams, en-
ebling about 800 boys to play base-
ball, Approximately 100 fathers vo-
lunteer "10 to. 16 houra B week as
managers, coaches, umpires and of-
ficials,_ Idke; thousands of other
volunteers ‘we are there. to help the

CWE Plans -
A Bake Sale
Saturday And |
Picnic Sunday .

‘The June meeting of the Cas-
tlegar Catholic Women’s League
was held in the rectory hall with
Mrs. R, Assie presiding. There were
16 members and two visitors pre-
sent.” .

A bake sale will, be held on

‘venor,

66
brewed A parish picnic will be held in
the Kinnaird park on June 18, Mrs,

i pari
in the ‘A, Shutek will help: with the con-

Kootenays elas for the Prospector
to :

was held at the door of the church
on June li, Bats. Je, Gell was" i
Kootenay
tastes”

charge,
It was decided to hold a | dinner
meeting in September with the
of the

, | the dinner.

Mrs. J. Hatlen gave an inter-
esting report of the OWL conven-
tion that she attended in Nelson.

Mrs. L,-Bosse was winner of the
booster prize. Hostesses for the
meeting were Mrs. Hatien and Mrs.
R. Friesen.

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son’ for atriking out twice. In vel aren th

June JT with Mrs, 8, Rysen as con-|,

tions
geflection on them. “put by ‘harp-
ing, carping, criticizing ‘and scold-
ing, they'only pass thelr own inse-
Suites on to the children, They

terested in’ the Eerie, All
ey ee is to win.

‘This distorted | attitude qres
most outrageously in evidence dur-
dng our Little League district tour-
nament last year, In the playoffs,
our team won the first game. Proud
parents swarmed down from the

stands, shouting congratulations,
aeey lavished praise on the boys

on the. back, The next night our
team, playing an even better game,
2. thought, was eliminated. The
game parents stood gloomily in the
stands, No shouts of encouragement
pels the boys who had given their

' aes the Little League sea=
son, the chief target of the witt-at-
any-cost parent is the umpire, a
volunteer like the rest of us. In the
heat of the moment, a certain
amount of umpire-baiting is under-,
standeble’ conforms to the long
traditions: of baseball,” But Little
League is not‘ the place.to teach
proficiency in the art, On our club,
no, player is allowed.to dispute an
umpire’s decision. Ne
‘Umpire-baiting by ‘parenta cre-
ates an, unwholesome’ attitude to-
ward suthority, It was the goading
fury of a: "parent that caused one
boy to throw s rock at an umpire
after s game. It was the invective of
defiant parents that caused five
umpires In our town to quit-in mid-
season. I maintain that the: father
}who teaches by his example that
rules are meade -to be broken, is
taining his boy. later in life.to
crib on school examinations, run

and excitedly pounded one another | €very

ing from community groups which
seem to have no interest in the
principles of physical education and
recreation, :

The answer to the problem, I

mound because of a close call by
‘an umpire, and his father, the ma-
nager of the.team, unceremoniously
jerked him off. the field, One. of
our. team fathers congratuictes

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the proditct of melted ice and snow.
During a flood, water leaves the

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