| Show I 1 ATHlETIC FANS I Ij t j t I MADE ClEANUP t 1 Chicago Rooters Root rs Went Down Hook Line and Sinker on Series 4 SOME OF THE WINNERS Oon Brothers of Now York t and ad Detroit Wo WoI I j j J l BY BERT K I I I 1 k THE IlS GROUCH G I Ii 1 i If you have money mOMY youre a at ait t I It If you ou gamble youre a fool tool 1 It If ou set get It oure youre a grafter grAer if it you yeu OU cant get it youre a aI I I blithering So what the the use u ur un r b T n Chicago ehi ago IlL lit Nov I IThe The great I r American sporting public has hall dur during durI I 0 r lug ing the past few days day waded through a aI I plethora ot of expert opinion explaining I r t away avay the whereof of ot the thune anent nent the recent walloping of the I r i Cubs Cube by Connie Macks Maek pachyderms L Mil all 11 of ot which hai I In its lie way been ex exit it interesting Therefore far tar be beit f it from to inflict upon your YOU sen sensitive sensitIve frame tram the doleful dirge even though it is quite apropos here in hi into hir to r Chicago Of all sad aad tales tale of tongue or pen MIn Are these Ml Jt might have been In a word however howeler the requiem 19 18 1 an eloquent tribute to that unwavering unwavering ing ng though foolish tool barometer the Inasmuch as a the writer made the price those accept accepted ed hi on the bourse on Oft the series and la tit lain leIn in a position to know that the unprecedented amount of of ofa ofa ofa a million dollars changed clanged hands on the series serle it appeals ls to me as ac the tho foundation of a story atory I Tt T t Wi teeing WWI was unexpected was well wall attested Eg fy k the early betting on onI I the tho li Prior P r to the opening gum game games a I 1 s at Philadelphia betting wa was so ab abnormal abE if E normal that even aven had word been Ull UllI i passed pu paa ed that the tho series erie was a frame I Ii i up upu for tor the Cubs Cube to win it could not notI I f j have been more unsettled Two to toone toone toI I one on the opening game was wa freely treely c I offered on the Cubs Cube while on the I 1 I series rte it was wag a ease of write your own ticket Right there here it might be men mention menI I I J 3 tion tinned ad that had the situation been re rep rei i p I 1 I I with the Chicagoans well wellI I f j 4 known kRown penchant for haying baYIng a bet beti J n p i g down the cleanup would have been f even more monumental As It was wa the tM eold men of or close coee at af affiliation with the tho world of speculation I I I took advantage of prices which were i i palpably out ut of line figuring that at a I such Much pi price ices it was wae a good bet it if you youn n lose loee and dumped the proverbial ton tOft tonof tonj i 11 j of money on the local bourse the I Ih I great gnat clearing house which in the i eleventh hour prior to the word of or t It the j umpire to play ball drove the I I I t quotations q down down down until u even Weft money was wall the prevailing quota quotations i tiene I oj i Belie e It I Ii t Alter After the ticker had bad told the tal 1 i of the invincible Bender Bander the Cub fans tans tansi I i j f only 3 shrugged their shoulders die dis disclaiming J d 11 i claiming defeat with the ever ready alibi aUW it sit was wa a That they th be believed bel beI l I Y j 1 it is ia borne out eat by the tact et that r i they bet their money not on OR the se so series sett 1 ries 1 but on each ach days ds game with the I tt I j result that there never was a time in inI I Ii sporting annals when wh the fan n were so eo o 4 lean clean as S at et the present moment I This is better illustrated when It te Its t I stated dated that men in every cery walk valk Ik of ot life I lh the tile butcher the baker and the can cant cani i It t L maker who had bad never I i been known to have a bet down were there with the healthy plunge The f I result lt as previously l ted was the tho t crushing out of mw hopes for tor or orjI jI presents while in hi many In Instances I 1 1 stances dances abject t want Mas ies In tn the wake r 11 of ot t the worlds series a f r J One ODe of ot the strange Incongruities of off 4 f the Ut betting on this series seri was that sen son sentiment 0 1 i played i an small entail A J part earL Contrary to precedent the piker 0 and plunger alike demands the best price with the result reut we can n ac laC account t t count in a measure for the ok s se quotations which prevailed I throughout the series erles Tradition and ahll I the lite laW lav laws of i nance bance were wert er dominant I Motors from the firing tiring of the first gun gunIn gunJ J L I In ta this th respect rt I 1 reprint an Interview I t with Jan Jam tea Ovary OLeai the stockyards t bookmaker at whose place Ilia future tutu i t hooks holts ar art made on ever very er big bis bl J P p f t c vent t a l which is Ic known k own far and Me as u the largest of us its kind in the tb i 1 OLear GLean when asked to ac aCt i foi fOJ the deluge of ot Athletic sup V at 51 poured in from front Detroit I f II burg Nw I York Toik and aDd Philadel J aid 11 These Thebe fellows fellow have no in Indol 1 dot dolt But Rut they figure and andrich ant antI I w v rich i h so 80 u that you cant caD win alt a aM ar M r f Oae a tine Its the la law aw of f tradition an I ph 11 calculation Then too they lh are I themselves of the palpably 1 J onna prices irtes Irle Any An prue over oer 7 t I te to t 5 I on fn sti one on mf is out Ul of f line lint 71 J The Tile h tic gentleman who apparently oth hat ha nu tnt reverse English h on I it t t if he h dOtS does and on H whose hose wh j q p turn lum the milk of ot 1 kindness kiIl tJ ha M soured laid it to toj toj I j j law la f 1 t om Lif Hw lie H argued 1 dh t it W vu a 1 llie game anit when a fellow j f L es Into lut this uis world He lie dOts dos so soI o I t without hi consent lL and Il ld he h goes out I T f of OC t Jt a ain his will and the trip In r between is III t And Aud AudIt 4 he It copped tn th negotiable grass of ot Un 10 Und r d Ie e Sam am in chunks chunk 4 1 The rilL Cleanup t I Of Ot those who mad niad maderies e a cleanup on ont ont I t t I the t tt series eriN the I Dr of and New York YorkI I won the biggest t bets ts These d dedIn edin 4 I speculators peculators parl parlayed their I re I winnings on the tho first three games cames for tor forIt or f It 1 fai Is said They would have hae 4 dropped d i hunk on the fourth had hid i il l p tilt been able to 0 all of ot theIr i ti On the other uther hand I h h 1 the they ht again e 1 ed out a walloping to 4 the tho i local ai betters on un the Ute Sunday Sunda same game gamet t I Of th 11 sidelight of the game none O i c were ere quite lUtte so IiO outstanding as al the sulK sulka Ik a r li l l 5 of r the rhe p less lender leader who refused r f i to Accede CC de to the demands demand of ot the fans tans fansto l 3 to start dart the series with nith fole Ie The r ra a 1 i Suli Ull vr all tills tins has leaked out There rio riot to t i was wu actual rupture in the ranks rank of the Cuba Cubs over this seine same me tonsorial artist who during durin the season had made the balance of the Cub pitchers look sick When at last Chance in Inde desperation de did give Cole a chance the big fellow tellow delivered in the only winning game g credited to the West Siders thus giving food tood for tor or those who whoa again a ln argued what might have been The scalpers too anti and the methods they the employed menaced the longevity of ot the sport as no other othor thing has lias In years year excuse me JIla i Mr Fletcher That the man higher up wilt will eventually be dragged forth into the calcium goe gose I almost almo t without saying The tel fel fellow tellow tellow low who hocked the pasteboards on the streets In the hotel botel lobbies the beat best seats eats In lu the grand stands was not nor Is not nol to he is merely a Ii tool Many of course cour blamed it to the national commission to this or that member and ami offered as evidence that the scalpers had approached them in their places of ot business bu when the only way of knowing that thal tickets were desired was WAIl through the national commission lon divulging the return of ot checks cheeks for tickets On the other hand it is 18 argued that the scalpers are fed ted by greedy greed politicians who hold up and demand certain blocks of tickets The latter probably Is a of the tangled skein |
