| Show III II BY WALTER J I DRATZ Here Hert a question that was thrown at atus atus us the other othor day Where did Connie Mack Jack 1 finish nih in t the o American league last I And who do you think it t was on I. I j the he other end ond A Ask k Dorsc Dorsey Burgess Burges r ELEGY IN A O COUNTRY STORE Fall many a L checker champion t to tG move moo unseen unee-cn And waste his talents in in a country 1 store I Also Abo Ty Cobb was traded for ono OliD days day's ho hotel l bill and an on mile five railroad ticket tl The championship committee of t the e eI A. A A. A U U. has finally l como coma out of its s t slumber It has decided to supply last years year's champions with their medals I Such was the tEe announcement following I j a meeting held last night wo are arc told tok Th The Tho boys boyz arc aro entitled to them nod and until 1 they have hn them in their possession there should i 1 be no II conversation conver tion about a ai at i t 1015 fI li tourney I Battling Nelson wants to enjoin all other pugilists from using the name namo Battling Ho may bo ho right according according accord ing to Old who says bap They dont don't battle any anymore more They tango If It baseball strife strite continues continue for a afew afew few more years the tho baseball statistician will forget all an about paye players players' averages and g give ge e the fans faDs dope on th the tho e percentages percent ages of lawyers who are rushing into I f Ufo tho courts coorts w with th new ew suits every even day daj or tw two It begins to look as ns th though u h this warfare in u America is doin doing moro more to toad ad advertise lawyers VerS and ma magnates nates than anything else and as aa we Tre remarked be be- the thc fans ana do not care caro a for the abo above o mentioned gentlemen What they want Trant to know is which pa play play- era are the die best boat base runners and loading load load- in ing irig pill pm in the various circuits The best evidence that thero will be beno beno beno no Olympic games in 1910 1916 is s given in inthe bo tIlo announcement that SW Sweden den is re- re turning the funds lunds subscribed by thc tho various i athletic clubs of that country Xo No other country has collected an any funds lunde and if the tho games were to b be staged preparations would now Lave have tobo to tc tobo bo be T way It is the thought in nth nth- letic circles that it it- will be 00 mUD many cars can I before the Olympics arc aro again held helLI Lots of oC u us who dont don't understand Ia law hm r mi might ht wonder why b certain affidavits I have been hurled into that heterogeneous mass known as the Federal I league antitrust suit uit against tho the national nation al commission Slant back bock over o tho the past pasi summer and remember the tho Killifer case caso K liCer jumped from O. O B. B to tho the Feds cds Then ho jumped back bacic The Tho Feds tried I to reclaim him via ia the tho courts but the I jU judge said the Federals came camo into court with unclean han hands bands s and as it is necessary necessary sary rr in cases of equity that tho the complainant com corn cOliC corao into court with mitts of ol pristine purity the Federals lost Tho Thc I whys and wh wherefores ot of oi the these e affidavits affidavit I of O. O B. B are nrc to show that tho the Federals I have havo interfered with tho the business of oi oiL tho the defendants by bv lurin luring players and L tampering with players play under contract contractor or promise to the m major jor leagues On theother the thc I other hand han the Feds Fedi wish to show that thai they thoy possess no monopoly on soiled free I lunch grabbers so 80 they tho have lave shot some corns affidavits right back nt it old O. O B. B One of these is is' interesting It is submitted L by a peanut p vendor at Baltimore who I solemnly avers that he be saw a man seated I on the tho wall at d Federal league park countin counting up the tans fans who had entered the gate Ho He o was sure that this gent was an 0 O. B. B spy heliographing his returns returns re reo turns to the tho far flung lines of the tho The question arises whether thi I would provo prove unclean hands Knowing P the tho capacity of ot brick hrick walls in for gathering soot any resident of this 1 city might Jud judge e that while t the peanut vendors vendor's hands might not prevent him hini from irom entering court its it's a cinch he be I would have to send his trousers to the I laundry before he could a n cour court court- room |
