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Show Ej Give Us a Square Deal, Frary! iThe following appeal to Umpire Frary from a coterie of Salt Lake baseball fans should be effective: To Ralph Frary, Union League Umpire Um-pire You have been sent here as arbiter of the series of baseball games which will decide the Union league pennant One-third of the money earned by all six clubs has been taken in in Salt Lake, so local fans are surely entitled to consideration. The Salt Lake team has only a fighting chance at the pennant, anyway, any-way, and If discriminated against the case is absolutely hopeless. It Is undoubtedly un-doubtedly true that some of the players have heaped abuse on you, but they are young and hot headed, while you are a man of maturer Judgment- Give the team a square deal In this series and prove to these players that you ore too broad minded mind-ed and too much a lover of fair play to let their talk influence you against them. These are the qualities that make a great umpire and by exercising exercis-ing them you can prove to the fans that you are entitled to that dlstinc-Salt dlstinc-Salt Lake fans are the most reasonable rea-sonable to be found anywhere. They never fall to applaud a good play by the other side and no umpire can afford to earn the contempt of such men by venting his spite iigainst the ball team. Nobody believes that you are incompetent in-competent and nobody wants you to give Salt Luke a scintilla the better of it, but everybody wants run to give them a ecn break. Fans who pay their money to see a game feel cheated when the umpire discriminate! discrimi-nate! and as long as that umpire is in baseball they remember him with disgust. The fans here believe that the Salt Lake team has not had a Square deal and now. look lo you to give the club Its Just deserts. If you will ex. i -clse your best Judgment without prejudice, all that has gone before will be rorgott.cn and you will make a host of friends here arnonp the kind of men whose Influence often counts In Justice to yourself, to the public and to the interests of fair play, vou cannot afford to give either team the slightest advantage. Give us a equare deal, Mr Umpire, for this one final series and If the home team has skill and stamina enough to overcome the big handicap, do not deprive it of the Just reward. re-ward. SALT LAKE BASEBALL FANS. |