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Show WALTERRxlBRTZ'S sropf Igossip SALT LAKE CITT Is going to do Its bit toward raising money for . the boys over there and the aportsrhen are doing their shsre toward the I'nltrd War Work campaign. But for the InOuensa . ban, every little football. haketlll or tMxlng association would surely have done Iteclf doubly proud. The money la being raised In -spite--of adverse conditions, however, and ao much mora to Bait - r Lake' a credit. Halt Lake goes wrong once In a while. There la no uae being explicit ab out tha matter Just honest and frank, that's all but when it cornea to raising money for the l 8. A., "she'a thare." I Hragging la not becoming-, but once In a while It can be pardoned. Tenny rate. It la deucedly coneollng and makes one feel very coM-1 coM-1 placent. So, bragging a bit. one can repeat that when funds are j needed for government purposes, little old Bait Lake Tares upland delivers! TOM CHIVINGTON. former sporting edltor'and former president of the American association, aounded baseball's keynote at tha m Peoria convention this week when ha aaid: -Baseball will coma Into Ita own- again when baseball's time comes. Right now the all-absorbing all-absorbing topic of conversation Is our greet victory In Ihe world war -and therefore we'll simply have lo wait until the people get around to talking about the great national game again." Chivtngton's advice has the right ring. HgachsU will come back ome bqrk h s never before butthts Is B hot a tiiiH' to tuTIc baselmll. F. erPTn paMT5ais uhiT"unMrr normal conditions baseball never flourished at this time of the year, and therefore why thduld the good people desire to discuss baseball with such a glorious victory still fresh in our minds and with so many more weighty questions confronting ua' Six months must intervene before there is any possible chance of resuming baseball, and many things can happen In that time. Ilsseiiall is in piellj good shape to resume. In spite of the wouldbe reformers who are falling over themselves In an attempt to tell men uf baseball experience how they should conduct their businesses. Kver since Provost Marshal General Crowder'a "work or fight" order gassed the ole pastime lest September the reform-at-any -cost element has been dipping the little Spenctriiin Into the vitriol pot. fault finding and assiling those who formerly guided the destinies of a major league. Yet In glancing backward over the awarth over which the pastime has tramped we find things were not half as bad as t hey a re be i n g t rescue d t o u a. Baseball does need a housecleaning. there's no denying the fact. hut baseball does not require complete demolishing. The old foundations foun-dations are still Intact, and with a little remodeling the superstructure super-structure niBvHr reared to greater heights than ever before. Home of the men who have guided the bark over dangerous shoala in the past are atlll of sufficient valu and in as urgent need as ever they were. The old aphorism about a new broom sweeping clean may well be borne In mind when the reorganisation takes place. "ft times, however, the handle of the new broom breaks in twain on the Initial occasion of Its use. Kor instance, we are positive from Information received the American league will make no change in its executive head. They, realize the past services of Ban K. Johnson, who brought tne organl-, organl-, cation from an Infant In swathing clothes to the great giant it represents today. Johnson alone with his hustling, shrewd business tactics and acumen of foresight made this condition possible. The only change needed, to our mind. Is the national commission. We believe It for. Ihe best interests of baseball to have the members of this highest tribunal In baseball be free from connection with cither major league. Make the change and all will be well. FOOTBALL, atno. In hsd its little fling with Tile this season, but in the long run football will not suffer. : t In the years gone by the gridiron game has had a college setting. True, soccer has been played by some fellows who either learned that game abroad or had It born in them, but the American game of fool ball largely was a university or college pastime, and subject to all the incidental features of school life. It had to have the rah-rah atmosphere. War changed this quite a hit. The A. K. V. knocked thla rah-rah stuff higher than a kite. The Stars and Stripes, the official paper of the boy a over there. In its issue of October II. had an editorial on thla subject which put the kibosh on general rah-rah piffle In tha army. The great fraternity hereafter will be the universal fraternity of democracy, with chapters In every land on oarth. But to get back to football. The Introduction of the game into army camps and cantonments has attracted to it many lads who. in the ordinary run of events, would not ahve paid any attention to it in a thousand years. They first became partisans and then participants. par-ticipants. They will play the game long after "the big game" is .1 entirely over, and footbalL- with other sports, will -have a regular vogue in pi sees where It might never ha e become know n under different circumstances. A FT KM he had succeeded in getting a good many of the sportsmen sports-men of the nation all "het up" about voluntarily helping in the raising of funds during this week, Jess Wiltard refuses to go to New York to meet the brilliant array of talent that was itch- . ing to meet him for the good cause. Wiliard'g excuse waa that he promised 'the commission of the state of Texas that he would put on a couple of bouta there. Vossthly It would do Mr. Wlllard a great injustice to question the bona fides In this matter, but there are a numler of us who would he glad to ace him get Into the ring with a real opponent, aome where be the same Texas, New York or Kalamaxoo. Jack Dempsey of Salt Iake City is willing to box Wlllard for aome' war fund and, the other day. posted an offer with a Phlla- delphla sporting editor offering to atop the champion or donate ten thousand dollars of his own money to charity. Why not send Jack downjo Texas? . |