Every sport follower in America (which means more than 90 percent of the population) knows now that Babe Ruth played in the recent World's Series on his nerve. He had a bad leg and an infected arm. When he was taken out of the fifth game he was on the verge of collapse.

And yet on that occasion a large section of the spectators displayed their own lack of sportsmanship by "booing."

Unfortunately this is not an isolated instance. At a number of recent football games some of the spectators have hooted in the same nasty fashion.

Booing is very bad manners. Even the fight fans seldom indulge in it unless one of the men in the ring has first been guilty of unsportsmanlike conduct, During the Dempsey-Carpenter bout the crowd is said to have shown more genuine sportsmanship than at any other great athletic contest.

The booer claims that his strange noises are protests against yellow streaks in the players. But coaches and trainers are so quick to spot a cutter in Practice that they almost never allow a coward to get on the team even as a substitute.

When there is booing the place to find the yellow streak is in the booer. If he realized what his jeer betrayed, he would try to conceal his cowardice by silence. --Boston Evening Globe.