Clipping:Obnoxious coaching 2

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Date Saturday, April 26, 1890
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[from the Boston correspondent's column] For years there has been a great complaint in Boston that we do not have coaching enough. If good coaching consists of noise, or rather a perfect hubbub, what we are getting at the South End grounds must be of No. 1 order. I am as strongly in favor of coaching as anyone, and I like to see a game enlivened with a little noise, but the continual, nonsensical screaming which is kept up by Long, Tucker and Donovan, is not my idea of coaching at all. While many now are talking here about the great change in this part of the game I will guarantee that six weeks from now everybody who thinks it is funny will be disgusted with it. If it helped to make runs it would be different, but you never hear such men as John Ward, Mike Kelly, Arthur Irwin, Anson and seldom Ewing, make such show of themselves. From the same sort of coaching by Captain Darby O'Brien and his men I judged it is American Association training that we are now treated to.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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