Clipping:Latham's coaching

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Date Tuesday, September 21, 1886
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[from Chadwick’s column] I am free to confess that I like the way Latham works his little coaching racket. There is a humor and good-natured fun in his way of doing it, and an originality which, to a certain extent, gives life to a contest. But the vulgar humbug and yelling of his weak imitators, such as that of Roseman, Behel, Miller and others who know nothing of real coaching, is simply disgusting to the spectators and more confusing to the runner than it is any advantage. Were it carried out as these fellows practice it the game would degenerate into a yelling match, and every reputable patron of the game would be driven from the grounds. St.

Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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