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Show rr' TTsmTs'ii ssaainisisssisaaTssMissraTrrn - By Roms C. Miller LKR PARCY la aad. A amatl-mlnl-ad man who happened to ba lha governor of New York helped kill him. And Juat becauaa they want-ad want-ad to ba In the publio eye a few mora Koveraora added to the alaylni proceaa that took tha Australian away. Darcy waa only twenty-one. Ha had committed what waa thoucht an offenae arainet hfa countrymen by evading- military mil-itary service and maklnir hla way to thla country. Perhaps ha did want to make money. Other men. even In war-torn countries, have wanted to do that. Governor Gov-ernor Whitman aaw a chance to earn not money, but cheap political capital which la not so honeat and on tha around that Darcy waa a slacker" refused re-fused him permission to box In New York. "If Whitman had done thla from a de-alra de-alra to spare tha New York publio tha brutal apeclacle of a boxlnrr match hla motives would at least have been respectable," re-spectable," aaya a Ban Pranciaco editorial edito-rial writer. But Whitman has not spared the New York public anything that could advance hla personal career nor wlllindy (ranted It anything that could hurt hia personal career. He had no high motive and he had not even any Irgal Jurisdiction. It waa tha business of the Immigration authorltlea, not of tha governor of New York, to decide whether Darcy's Australian Austral-ian record should debar him from enjoying enjoy-ing the freedom of the United Htatea. Not even tha federal government could at normal. Theatres have played to capacity, capac-ity, and yet England and trance are much mora Immediate lo tha great vortex of war than tha United Btatea la likely to be. Buainaa men and employe working at perhapa the Increased tenalon Incidental Inciden-tal to war eondltlona will even mora than aver aaak the relaxation afforded by me lor learue ball games." Tha exact eermnsa of ' the T4oatew "Americana." capitalised for I1II.M0 preferred pre-ferred and 1100. 00 common stock, are not available, but It la known that for many years they have never leas thaa II par cent on tha I2.M.000 stock. The company valuee Ita -American leagus franchise at 11.00. 000; In fact, no franrhlss In tha league haa ever eold for leaa than 4600.000. The total aale or exrhanaa value of tha elub'e plnvere la estimated at a minimum of iaod.ooo. a a Anything la fair In a ball game." - Fred Mitchell. Cub manager, la aald to have mada thla etatement a few days a pro regarding tha use of tha bean ball by his nltchera. Mitchell was quoted aa aaylng that tie advised tha uae of tha bean ball against clubs which used It. About the only Ihtng that can be Bald for thla atatement la that It la unoom-pramlslngiy unoom-pramlslngiy frank. Mitchell la the only manager In basebsn who haa- aver admitted ad-mitted that ba told his pltohera to use the bean ban. By barring tha bean ball and threaten- inr to a rive its exponents our ox aese- ' ball, the national commission went n lonr wav to retain the popularity of baseball. "Been In-' plarers is not popular with fans, even though their own team la able to win by its use. It Is regarded as unfair un-fair and fans demand more than any-thing any-thing else, fairness In base ball, and the eooner unscrupulous manager find It out the better. . 1 Ioet sight of by turfmen for more than a quarter of a century the onee noted trotter, P ham rock. I.2C. died of old age at Columbia, ft C, a few days ago, revealing re-vealing another Interesting instance of man's benevolent solicitude for the wel-fsra wel-fsra of favorite horses. - P ham rock was the last of three equine veterans owned many vears by the late Charles Lona of Cnlumbla who left $40.0e) to the eity for educational purposes pur-poses and ItMVO more to be used In promoting pro-moting justice to en (mala John M, tbe first of tha trio to die, at the ripe old age of was buried In the grounds of the IvOgan school. It is said when his owner once shipped him to New York to ba sold the thought of parting with him so upset Mr. Imogen that he withdrew John M from the auction at Madison ftquare Garden and took htm home again to dtiv on the road. e e The good form being shown by the Haa Francisco team of tha Pacific Coast baseball base-ball league with the reeult that they are at the head of the percentage column has materially Increased the attendance at the gamee. It haa been an axiom of the game that the crowd will always find the winning ball teams while the losers are wonderlne; what has become of the attendance. at-tendance. With Loos Angeles and Vernoa hovering: near the bottom of the Hat the truth of this Is apparent, for tha gate receipts re-ceipts In the (Southland have not been J ae encouraging ss they might be. A comparison of the relative standings I of the tesms In the Pacific Coast league ; at the end of the first two months of play this year and last Is as follows: Teem Poa. ' pet. Pea. rVt. dan FrTinctsoO 1 .442 .KM Rait Lake t . . 4 .447 Oakland s .4M - .144 Toe Angeleg 4 .44S .14 Portland .Alt I .41. Vernon .404 .47 that time have considered his evasion of military duty an offence; on the contrary, con-trary, it would have been offense against the laws of tbe Doited Htatea to have induced in-duced htm to take service with any foreign for-eign country, for we were not then st war. But when Whitman exposed his private nothliurness other men fell over themselves to be as mean and absurd on their own account. Darcy waa harassed and humiliated, and being hardly more than a boy and not understanding that these snap judgments judg-ments of tbe American - publio are aa often right aa wrong, he broke hla heart over It. The tact that Darcy was a fighter does not make the treatment he received any less unfair or unchlvalrous. and It Is hoped that Governor Whitman and his foMowers will profit by the lesson les-son the death of this mere boy should teach. 1 e e 1 Now what of the middleweight boxing championship. Kate seems to bear a i grudge against the tile. It was shout , seven years ago when Stanley Ketchel. 1 then recognised as the middleweight , champion, was shot and Wlleo" al Conway, Con-way, Mo., by Walter A. Dfptey. Since i then several boxers neve clai med I he title, and near just when Iarcy was about to step in and prove hie right to the belt he is snatched from his chance by the grim jaws of death. Ketchel had followed the primrose path, but Darcy: waa an unsophisticated boy, and the least we can do ia remember him an the lad who was struggling aajainst fate to j provide for an sged mother left at home In a country ridden by war. e e e - While we are on the subject of festers fest-ers It might be welt to mention a whole lot of other fighters who have come to thia country from abroad to escape military mili-tary duty. There Is Kreddle Welsh for Instance. There are others, too, who have agreed to enlist and haven't. They are now wearing1 sweaters in the line to hide a bright yellow streak. see A picture haw come td the sport desk of Fally Bchang. catcher of the Ath-letlca Ath-letlca It reveals the fact that Watly is a pretty good looking chap In his lately grown mustache. That much must be conceded, whatever may be the appropriateness of sporting capillary embellishment em-bellishment on the countenance; and nobody no-body has ever told why a mustache Isn't aa appropriate for a baseball player as the absence of one. Might just aa well say all baseball players ahould nave their hlr cmllpped close. Kvidently Bchang things the hirsute annex Is all right, and as he Is the only professional ball player to wear one he certainly has the courage of his convictions. 'see The offhand conclusion of moat people would doubtless be that the war will affect af-fect Injuriously the attendance at sporting sport-ing exhibitions this summer, partlculajiy thst of the national games. President Frasee of the Boeton American league baseball club, however, ho Ida an oposite view. He says: "Accepted wsr conditions In England and France as precedents, it wfll be found that popular sports have not offered. Tbe return from the front of furtoughed and slightly injured soldiers has kept the Interest and attendance for the mora popular diversions ia excess of |