Show WALTS y t y P f i I i f i. i 0 0 4 ALT LAKE baseball fans have havo during the past two weeks bc been n S SALT brought taco face to lo face tace with the tho realization that their splendid team which apparently has an an- excellent chance to tn cop the tho ra rap rag is to bo he mat materially weakened very cr shortly because four four- of the Bees are arc soon oon to bo ho called for army chit duty duly r Leverenz Chappell ti 1 Dubuc and arc the thc players in question I Well Wc II there thero I Is a plausible argument to support the Idea that r men might have been spared spared or at least lea that a t. t pla play sr r like fk Alexander Alexandcr might have be been n permitted to remain in the oldest of oC tho the major leagues of which he ho was vas a member when called Alexander for Cor Y YV example was the tho kin king bee hec of or the business 5 and just V naturally has to h be HO so why not let men of I his remain to 1 entertain the tho public Theres There's Just an argument that's tins all 7 T nn rhall must continue It Is too great reat nn an institution to b be permitted to decay During ng these next few ew months month or perhaps f years car wo we who arc not subject Jo to o call caB for Cor active war service rier must mul have hac dl cr diversion lon or we will go 10 back hack We Wc c cannot maintain our helpfulness and efficiency without it Baseball f Is about the thc only means some o of u us have ha of or amusement and recreation In hi the summer We Vc C cannot afford golf and lon ton long vacations arc are much too too expensive c Ho So o we wo take a few Cew c cents out of r L the mu kitchen t I o en oven occasionally and ana inu RO go o to 10 see sec a i baseball all gamo It Il is medicine to us It It- hives gives i es us liS heart an and braces us Ui tip up for Cor future efforts If baseball has to be be naturally it requires pla players ers Baseball exemplified by a lot of superannuates s an and bushers would be a sad nd affair so o why not exempt a few of the Joo good ones and let them play Hero tho tine ar argument The Thc answer appears sufficient Exempt an any ball player because he Is JR one an and confusion will result Ever Every scrub sport in the United States State would rush ruh to cover The Thc pu pug would beat the thc sprinter Sli to the exemption board and a fine lot of or probably would woul be bc killed in the tho rush If IC the answer were not obvious It would be enlarged upon No good people er e every man of or draft age who does docs not Cull fully and completely come up to exemption specifications must I take his chances an and If Ir called must go where others whose lives arc arc just as dear to lo them and theirs O as a professional proCessional ball players player's can be ha have hae e go gone no before beCore It Is too bad had of oC course when one has perfected c himself to the limit In a vocation or 01 prore profession slon which requires youth and strength and in which a person cannot hope to last any Jon longer loner er than perhaps ten years year to lo have c to lo leave It during the Identical years ears It It It- could best hest be bc used and take the chances 0 of spoiling polling it by hy time wounds or death t but It Is one of or the fortunes of oC war and a as such must be he borne bOIne with the thc fortitude that so 50 far Car hits has act characterized citizenship OLO gL MILLER manager manaI for or Jc Jess s Willard Villard and anti as later C COLONEL events have proven en also slated to become promoter of the thc proposed July 4 battle hattle with Fred Fulton Kulton lens has declared off all allne I ne negotiations for 01 such a a u match math less Ies Willard Villard is hurt and andIa Ia says he heill will ill retire t to his farm Carm and nil FIE Fred d Fulton doesn't care what shat happens so long lon lonas as as hi his Pantages contract cOI holds put Not ot much else eloe could have hao b been en expected 1 For or I. I pure Cd stuff commend me mc me meto to most fighters some ome pr promoters and ana anu most managers jers They nicy think he must work worl up interest In their alleged bl big events and so 10 they liCCI keep nauseating details before the public so 80 long and persistently that finally finally- the true character of the thing breaks through the terrible news of or the war If these money mad tightens fighters i and their proponents would woul but hut make their matches and then quietly go to lo work and perfect necessary arrangements finally advising when and where the scraps arc are to be h held ld they would get set just exactly as ai hi big a gale guto and official attention would not be attracted Not a dollar extra is garnered II on account of or the foolish Coolish and unnecessary ar details and discussions Those who go would go anyway and nothing but harm haim results from front the perpetual publicity The proposed o ed Fulton 1 bout was wa indeed an un episode of ot mistakes The bout might have been sta pl staged eel a half t.-half half dozen Boren times i If themen the themen men behind It had used their noodles Thc Tho bout have might been put on in Maryland larland The Thc Havre Hanc de dc Grace race track people tried to handle it for tor the fighters The Tho city o of D Baltimore re would have havo- put it on Several other localities were In ht the tho market The bi big hitch however came when the promoters refused foCused to donate about 25 per cent of the thc gross to some charitable or war cause Then hen came Fulton's jam In California Fulton may have been misunderstood misunderstood stood but It H has had serious results The American people were opposed I to the match No on on man boxer especially ha had any right rig to expect tl to to- collect In on one on w vad Id probably H OOOO of the people money which Is so 40 badly n needed elsewhere Just now and go south with It The grin principals offered to invest est their ends o of the purse in Liberty h bends s. s Who ho Many of oC u us would want no better belter place to Invest a a. spare than In Libert Liberty bonds Let us keep boxing rational and supportable Lt It us liS erni Int nt ourselves s with occasional contests contents between lads who aJ are satisfied to exhibit for or reasonable compensation Let u its enjoy what wo se ii v no v have In a decent The Fulton Villard way proposed was overdoing the thin thing I |