Show I MATTYS MATTY'S COLUMN M 1 Sport Comment and Views I IBy By CHRISTY MATHEWSON the Pitcher New York Giants Giants' Famous Too Many Wrinkles The trouble with racing and prize fighting fi is that there are too many wrinkles attached to both same games They are too complicated and their promoters pro pro- and backers have hae made them that way The great grat beauty beaul or of base base- baIl baH to my mind has always been Its directness and fairness It is not compliCAted It Its followers do not nol talk or of it with th their lr palms to their mouths hut speak ri right ht out from the tho shoulder For the welfare of oC the game It must always be kept this way As soon ns as anyone begins to whisper about it the sport will be suspected of observation but thi this I dont don't pretend to have any unusual qualities I have noticed to bo 10 always a fact Whenever el anybody starts to talk o of ofa his mouth that sport or with his palm to 10 a sport or a man or a woman there is that man or that woman is 11 going to be suspected Folks believe something about the discussed which cannot be said out loud hut must be I nm am Hong but 1 belle believe discussed In whispers In back alleys Perhaps this whispering to be bc one or of the tho most dangerous factors In the world and When hen a man steps up to it has been an able instrument or of the shrewd it is something another man and places place his palm to his mouth and says ays hear not what wh he says 1 S 'S which counts so much for the cannot that but Lut the manner In which ho s. s says s 's It I have seen one man step tep up to another In the thc lobb lobby or of n a hotel and murmur In a whisper Bill Is the greatest fellow In the world Bill I but has missed the tho Some eavesdropper hits hils caught the tho name rest lie He draws de deductions and thc they are There Is something wrong with Bill I heard a IU guy whispering about him the other night ht has tried to Federal league the One thing which has worried me mA since that base baseball boll ma may become too complicated break brak lute into lie tho field Is the dan danger er to wIn Will the war and In con con- There Thero are arc plots and counterplots counterplot now behind the tho Is too much whispering with these stratagems there I feel sure that the men back or of the But hand for the tho health or of the game ame Is the squarest sport In the world have havo too much sense to hurt It It sport port The Fed Federal ral ln league ue at all o of them look toda today and nd I have had a chance to that the tho outlaws ws but I believe cannot hurt or organized baseball p permanently if the N National and American would b crowded out very ery much sooner len leagues us u's 3 at went ahead and pla played etI their schedules schedule without worrying over Fed the Where hundreds hundreds hun hun- Baseball Is by far the tho most popular sport In the country ball It thousands are arc present at a game attend other competitions element clement of sincerity that none or of the others carries After watching has nn an racing anti amI fighting this wInter I feel eel sure suro that the game will hol hold its Is 18 the tho sport or of kings s but baseball forever tolover Tile The that racing position say the call racing the sport of C they Is I the tho sport or of the American public have c kings the they do not count the han hangers ers on around r o every race track who tossed their fortunes and their lives Into the tho game Life is the fuel or of a world be found there and the tho winner track The Tho biggest contrasts In the can o toda Is tt the tramp ot of tomorrow |