Show Jponn = Hall players who are In the habit of the arc fearing that betting on games Han Johnson will drive them out of I the American league Johnson baa to Kent out a circular letter appealing and managers to kill the club owners all gambling Ban Intimates that It will go hard with any player caught wagering as much as a nickel on a ball game In an ofliclal bulletin Johnson John-son orders club owners to stop the betting Ono player who always backs himself to win or at least claims ho does Is John Powell of the St Louis Browns Powell asserts that his income In-come from his wagers Is more than his salary as a player While the an thorlty of tho owners and of Ban Is I confined to the grounds their Influence Influ-ence and that of the players properly directed will be a powerful factor Baseball has been free from tho gamblers black hand It Is so essentially essen-tially a part of the American life that It would be n shame to permit the I encroachment of any evil And once the hydrahead of gambling enters just so soon will baseball begin to lose its hold upon the public Long ago gamblers bet high on baseball and some wagers ran Into four figures In > Louisville a plunger framed a deal with three players Devlin Nlcholsand Cramerto throw a game upon which he had a fortune staked The plot was exposed and tho men were barred from baseball for all time The expose ex-pose almost killed baseball In Louisville Louis-ville It Is said that some players bet upon the games They lay their money upon their own team however But the practice should be > checked l now and Ban Johnson reasons that I a player who bets on himself gets Into company where temptation Is always al-ways present and some day It may piovo too strong to withstand Albert Briel well the clever young shortstop of the New York National club was born In Portsmouth 0 2 7 years ago Ho made his professional 1 debut with Columbus In the spring of I 1903 and finished the season with Atlanta At-lanta In 190 I he made such a splendid splen-did showing with Atlanta that tho Cin r l err j If1 rr kjl r cif l3t tJ j JjI ID 4 > clnnatl National league club drafted him and he was that teams regulat shortstop In 1003 In 1906 he wa traded to Boston for Inllelder Jim Del chanty and he remained with Boston until last winter when ho was Included Includ-ed In the famous trade of Hrldwell Needham and Tenny by New York to I Boston for Howerman Dahlen Me I Gann and Ferguson Bridwell to date I I has done splendid work for New York ably replacing tho veteran Dahlen I OLOUgW I Silk OLoughlln Is a firm believer that tho baseball fans of today would prefer to witness a low score great pitching and fast fielding game than a veritable slugging bee productive of a dozen runs or more Tho truth I is said OLoughlln recently that about two or three hard hitting big score games In a season Is quite enough These ir to G games are too much like old tashioned village throe old cat for tho redblooded fans of to day The truth Is too that the games that make new fans and bring the old ones out tho next day are the 1 to 0 2 to 1 and 3 to 2 contests In which from start to finish a hit or abril liant fielding play will turn the tide of victory or defeat The fan who de clares he likes to see slugging be cloves what he says but he Is mlstn ken If It Is the visiting team that Is doing the slugging this Tan doesnl get over his madness for a week The games that live In ones memory are tho games In which poth pitchers are nt their best In which the ball Is all the time In play In which the hitting Is just hard enough to make sensa tional fielding possible and In which n SCore Is so close that tho result Is actually In doubt until tho twentysev enth putout has been made sides on both OLoughlln sees 151 games season and has tho a opportunity to test the temper of all kinds of crowds The west Is the real now In the American country rlgjit league the four western clubs lead sloe and the four tho proces nt the bottom eastern teams are In tho National western three teams aro at tho toil top only one In the and second division John Anderson leads tho White with an Sox average of 290 vis leads the Athletics Harry Da with 233 |