Show Owners Have No Kick If They Lose a Little Says Frazee I Boston Jan 1 1 Harry Harry Fraz Frazee e the young owner of ot the Boston Red So Sox has hns recently declared that big league magnates h have ve no reason to complain If It the game mc should have its dull sea sea- son u KOCS goes on to point out that baseball as ng a business Is a profitable on brie nd that It continues to grow trow biggem bigger bigger big big- ger gem and better heUer In speaking of or tho the games game's next t sea season on Pra France c has hall said sall I l 1 am sure that baseball will bo be a success lIS In 1918 I am airs willing to bet right now I that the American l league a lIe will 1 play 0 to more people this coming season than It did last lat year And Aud last year car was a n abig abig big success so 80 far Car as t the American league was contemned concerned The rue Red fled Redo Sox o were wele on velvet J b by September and we made lots lotI of ot money We e will vili do as aswell aswell well or 01 better balter next season eaon Baseball In I a great reat business and andI I J. J for one am hone honest t enough to speak up and lIa say so 80 The he magnates who are arc howling calamity these theRe days are aro beyond be beyond beyond be- be yond me Inc Some of ot them theist may have lIa been pinched a bit last sensors season hut but thor they have made malc millions out of or tho the game and md can afford to lose loso now and ant then their thenh h Why Shy screech so much when they he lose a n 0 few fo nickels nickels' Baseball Is 18 growing r every ery year and as a business It Is continually continual becoming better and betterIn better In In their ball plants alone alon the hl big I league magnates have enough h to make mako sure of or their Investment I 1 own cr c every bit of or Fenway park th tire land the stands tire the franchise the tho players and arul everything e from tIre the front gate gato to the tire rear door The property alone Is worth five times as much as when It Was first given over oer to baseball When hen the old Yankee park In New e York was given up lip the club could have bought that property property prop prop- ert erty for tor something like A lit littie little lit lit- I tie lie while ano tho the same bit of or real es estate estate estate es- es tate sold for Perhaps that will Indicate something of or the tIre business business busi busi- ness possibility of baseball But of or course courso the commercial phase of baseball Is not nol the chief thing In irs such times as these se The Thc people must have amusement and distraction from I tho the sad And burden of the tile war What hat If I y i fl J 1 ic v A 11 if J JS t y J t r 1 JV fit l f. f t A 1 1 1 r ft f. f t. t M f. f f t n j. j t Wi r y I w l H lun F the ma magnates do in lone lORe a n. bit hit They ea eado cando cnn can do a gr great at deal of oC good b by y supporting tho tire gain gaino gainIn In the thc right light spirit A baseball base base- han hail ma magnate to nl can be patriotic as well wel as anbo anybody else ele |