Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-26 | Page 38 | Betting Exiled Ball Players

IBETTINE EXILED -Hyps Manhattan Reviews Condition , orNational Game in 1 lie ' Major Leagues. . HUNTING WITH HOUNDS WOULD EXTERMINATE DEER Wonderful Exhibition of Shooting Shoot-ing Given l)y Neaf Apgar at Sportsmen's Show. Ii BY MANHATTAN. By Leased Wire to Tho Tribune. NEW YORK, March 25. Defeat of the McGrnth Sunday baseball bill In the assembly as-sembly was unexpected. It seemed to be the opinion that It would push the lower house, and In fact the Democrats ' avIio weso supporting the measure were 1 confident up to the roll call they would 1 be able to get enough voles to pass the bill. It was defeated by 73 to C5. 1 Speaker Frlsblo voted against the bill. So did the majority of the Democratic insurgents, except Assemblyman O'Connor O'Con-nor and Assemblyman Terry of Brook-i Brook-i lvn. The weakness of the movement Is the fact that Its principal backers are men who want to make a. business out i or the. game to which they are mere hangers on. Unless cupidity or that egotism of judg-i judg-i mcnt which makes one think he has n "shade" In the odds Is aroused, systematic syste-matic betting will not succeed in baseball base-ball at this time. Groat evils, however. f have grown from small beginnings, and i every lover of baseball hopes that failure may bo tho portion of those who aro seeking to mako gambling an adjunct of tho favorite spori of the American i , people, i Betting Disgracod Players. Betting on the game once nearly killed the great American pastime and drove four great players from the diamond and : Into disgrace. One now a gray-haired man moves about this city dally shunned ' bv all who knew him In his day of fomo 1 and who also know what caused his dis grace. There Is a movement on foot In Al-' Al-' bany to revert to the old form of hunting leer with hounds. This is not sport, as overvbody knows. It Is no more a sport, than that other uncivilized method, , "Jacking" for deer. It Is on a par, too, , -with hunting moose on snowshocs. In each case tho quarry has not the slightest chance for its life, and in each case, therefore, it Is not sport. To the real sportsmen it is hardly necessary to explain this. To the man behind the movement to return to hunting deer with hounds explaining would bo a waste of words. A delegation from tho northern I tier counties favored the practice, con- i tending that the present protective I methods were unnecessary- J Hunting With Hounds. 1 do not like to feel that this dole- ' k, gation really represented tho northern fli tier counties. If they were really rcprc-sentatlve, rcprc-sentatlve, the northern tier counties ought to bo saved from themselves. Theso men must know what hunting , deer with hounds means. If wo are to ; ' , hunt game there Is only one basis in , ' which the sportsman can work and that is, man against beast, or bird. I grant ' that under such circumstances the man ' has the worst of It. but that is the dif ference between sport and butchery. If hunting doer with hounds were again permitted, it would mean that deer i would soon be extinct In this state. Nearly 700 major league baseball play-' play-' 1 era are now training with tho clubs. Within six weeks this number will be cut down to 475. Some clubs have men enough to form four teams. . The ranks of those who are endeavor- I lng to defeat a possible measure In the Massachusetts legislature designed to al- , low Sunday sports are swelled by the , JSvangellcnl Alliance of Greater Boston. . The Rev. Arthur Little of Rorchester recently referred to tho movement as "a bold and determined attempt to lcgallzo ,4 basoball on Sunday." He said It was de- ' moralizing to the community, and that the proposod law was a vicious measure, which would .destroy Sabbath sentiment, ii It was a wonderful exhibition of shoot- I ing. Koaf Apgar won tho professional 1 ' championship In the International Trap Shooting tournament held In conjunction , with thq Sportsmen's show. Apgar broke 240 out of 250 targets.