Show SCHEME TO BOLSTER UP YANKEES IS Baseball Can Not Stand Much More Marc Such Scandal Scandal Scandal Scan Scan- dal Says Fullerton By HUGH S. S FULLERTON Baseball officials Just now aro are treading treading tread tread- ing upon about as dangerous ground as they have touched In tn years They are ue to put it frankly as a a. fan did tome tomo to tome me mo so EO close to the borderline of actual actual ac ac- with the pennant race that it requires a lot of or discrimination discrimination to tell it from tho real thing thine It may be L best t for the tho American league o and for organized organised ba baseball to get t Colonel Ruppert and his wealthy frien friends s sto to buy th the New York club an and put a areal areal areal real team in that cit city If Colonel Support Ruppert anti and his friends want a i L club and want to put New York lork on tho the baseball map so far fur as the American l league is concerned very cry well ell But tho the proposal to donate a lot of players to strengthen and build up the Yankees Yanke-cs so o as to hand a first q division club lub right off otY the reel is about as near fram framing D as can be bo reached in iu baseball One cannot blame Colonel Colone Ruppert for wanting something for his money moner but for President Johnson to supply him hini with players is wrong viewed 3 as tho the fans will ill view it Years 1 ago 0 a New York club was as bolstered bolo bob bol up br oy by tho National lea league c at a critical stage of tho the game gamo and a howl hol went up from oil all over o the country A year jear far or two later huer the tho Boston team was strengthened on the eve of a n de deciding dc- dc c. c series with Ch Chicago cl O and the cO country rang ranJ with ith protest The year ear Brooklyn sent ent home homo its pitchers and catchers worked l second string players 3 against Now ew York and recalled the tho stars to try to beat Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago there was a fri frightful ht ul ho bowl even bowl l en even evenin in New ew York which was favored fa The These e instances merely po Poo to show bow how bow botho tho the era a average o fan ln looks upon such Buh deals eals If the owner o of a 3 club goes out buys trades digs up and produces produce a winning en everyone cheers him Isbn But tho the Am tint hint that one club is gratuitously assisting another and aDd there thero i is I scandal Frankly baseball cannot stand much more mora f. f scandal f or suspicion e nod and the tho gentlemen gen cm tiemen now no in control of the game should l learn arn that fact It is is proposed to help belp the Yankees Why not help Cleveland Clo The Amen Amen- can lea league e was on the verge of bankruptcy haul hank au and aud failure when Charlie Charli Sorn Sorn- ore ers came to the tho rescue with ith JILt his for for- tune He Ho not only saved tb the league but mado made it the leadin leading organization in the tho country Somera has poured a fortune into his club has tried to make a winner under un under un- un der bea heavy handicaps He no longer longo is iss ts 5 s wealthy as he was But ho bo did not ask help from the American league or favors on in the tho form of placers Last year the Federal league e S I hit his team a hard bard jolt He then asked the American Ica league e to give e him a n. chanco chance to build up a club that would mako make a respectable showing Tic Tf I did id not sug suggest sug- sug gest est any charity arrangement but offered of ferel trades Tho The other magnates magnate gave lve him the laugh In the tho face of the these e things the idea of ot building up New e York merely because he be cause it is Xe New ew York is objectionable to the sporting idea Now Xe York is the richest franchise in the tho country The biggest rew reward rd awaits tho the man who b can cau gather a winning team there then If It Ruppert Rup Rup- pert and his hi friends frieD s want a winner let them make it |