Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 40 | Sympathies Which are Showered upon Baseball Magnates

Sympathies Which Are Showered Upon Baseball Magnates Consider. then, the Magnate. He Someth into the world 6f Baseball wltli a bank roll, and lie buyeth a ball club, and. behold, there Is loud lawfter. And the Baseball Writers' Association niaketli much diversion with him, and the car-tooAists car-tooAists draw pictures for which he hath no redress. Were he a common citizen, he could sue for libel, hut. being a Baseball Base-ball Magnate, he would receive the ha-ha, ha-ha, and there ia nothing coming to him. And he putleth his money into the Game- and he hireth a Manager, and. unlike all oUier kinds of Business, he thereafter Knoweth not where his mortey gOeth nor hath he a blinged thing to say nhout tt. For the Manager throweth the Magnate's money to the winds; and if the Magnate kicketh. or even asketh. "VThv this, that, and the other expenditure? expendi-ture? And whv this Strange Policy? The Manager Hooteth him lo scorn, and the Public, rising on Its hind legs, bray-eth bray-eth at him. calling him Names, and averring aver-ring that he is a Short Skate and no Sportsman. , , ' And perchance his . club .maketh a little Coin, and then all his Players demand big Raises, far more than the Strongbox Strong-box ever held. And perchance, a Darned sight more Perchance,' his club Loseth monev. but the Players abate hot. their Askings, and the public Standeth by the plavers, denoum--inr the Magnate as a Tightwad and a Miser. nd at the League Meetings perhaps he' hath a Single Beer, and then te Funnv Sheets have Sketches of him with a Bun on. and the Writers say that he Wants a Foctrail and a Cabaret ere he can be Contented. And all the world maketh fun of him: and- he hath no friends whatsoever: and life is just one Swift Kick after another. Verily, what b the use? Why bo a Magnate? Baseball Magazine.