Clipping:How captains respond to muffs

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Date Sunday, August 14, 1870
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[regarding Bush, the captain of the Harvard nine:] His behavior toward his men when unfortunate enough to make an error in the field, was very generally commented on and approved by the spectators, the system of bullying usually adopted by captains under such circumstances, being totally discarded by him, and a few words of encouragement to try and do better next time, substituted instead. Unlike many other captains, he does not think that his men muff on purpose, and that a good bullying in public, will steady their nerves for the next chance they get. Many an otherwise good player has been rendered perfectly unfit to play from nervousness, in consequence of being bullied and sworn at by his captain for dropping an apparently easy fly.

Source New York Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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