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Show - ; Unwritten Letters . Ey E. W. HOEFHE. ! Nat'onal CommissTon. ! Attention yr. Garry Herrmann j Dear Mr. Herrmann 1 feel thdt T must thank the national commission, through you, for the fearless w ay in which you ! have decided the case of Pitcher Scott , Perry. re. t-ntlv with my Atbfetics, but sijice awarded to the Boston Braves. It is tnitj thai Perry has been winning for me and mat most people believe that morallv he should remain the property of n.v club, but permit me To assure you that 1 do not share that opinion of th matter; in fact. I believe such people aj' a bit mentallv irresponsible. I am glad fo let Mr. S tailings hava . Perry, and know that Bancroft Johnson doesn't mind losing so: good a twirler to the National league. I If Mr. Stallings desireF any more of j my stars, Messns. Burns or Walker, for . instance, I beg you to let me know, as 1 j am more than anNious to have your com- j mission decide another case and discover , some slight baseball technicality through ; which I can release them. With heM reeards to George. I am. Most sincerelv voure. i CORNELIUS M'GIL-LICUFDT. j Club Owners. j 1 Everywhere. ' : Gentlemen:I was delighted to learn I i thai when the war tax of 10 per cent j was levied on amusement tickets you in- I creased the price of grandstand seats to j j cents instead of To merely SS cu.nt, i which would have covered the original j cost of seat plus tax. We fans realize i that you are thus saving us the troubla of' dealing with pennies and being com- j pelled to waste considerable time. j I have heard some coarse, cynical fans, j who no doubt roost in the center field bleachers, say that you might hnvfl lowered the price of tickets a few cents and thus both covered the tax and ob-tained ob-tained at the same time a. ticket charge ' of SO cents, in this way doing away with i pennies. Or that you mlcM allow th fans to save their stubs a nd collect th i two excess cent 6 for each stub at thA end of the season, or that you might even have decided to donate the extra 2 cents we pay above the war tax to some war fund, but, of course, their attitude is most , illogical. Very truly yours. I A. Fl-O-N. j |