Show HAS RAS EFFECT ON flAME Baseball H in Metropolis Is Hampered Hampered Hampered Ham Ham- by Bad Weather and Charges BY SA SAM I CRANE E. Now Kow York May oln 3 With With charges of crookedness and ond the most discouraging weather that could be bo imagined baseball base babe ball has had a very disquieting start this spring two t years ears ago there was tho the most conclusive proof that several players on tho the Louisville team had sold certain games in the interest of gamblers The Tho suspected players when whoa they saw they were corn corn Hed red made e con con- What was their punishment The blacklist forever COle the worst penalty that can bo be inflicted on a a. ball bali player For several yours years Hall Hail Nickel Devlin Devlin Dev Dev- lin and Craver Graver mado made the most energetic energetic ener ener- getic efforts to get back into the game What was their punishment It was not that the pull was as lacking lackIng lack lack- Ing in either polities politics or 01 social Influences but It was for fOI the sole reason that President Hurlbut of the tho National league and president of or tho the Chicago o clu club at the time Ume that reinstatement Vas was applied for came camo out as at tho the unflinching ing Ing- unyielding champion of honest baseball He lIe would not listen to the appeals for Cor reinstatement of the self- self con convicted players or their 1 I friends No said tho the stern storn but just leader Jeader Baseball must be 10 kept clean anti and honest hon est cst or It will never amount to anything as a sport port Would Henry Chadwick if he were I alive all demand an investigation upon the charges cs against Dr Creamer Wouldn't that otherwise and staunch protector of oC tho the national game President dent Hurlbut order Older that light bo be thrown upon the situation It Is said that the tho name of oC the tho accused doctor I leaked out In Cincinnati |