| Show NATIONAL GAME ABOVE SUSPICION MAGNATES EMPHATIC emphatically AILY OE DE CLARC BASEBALL PENNANTS ARE WON ON MERIT QUERIES BY LED FANS president dent comiskey of chicago whits white sox shows fine chances chance for jockeying that have been passed by gate receipts not considered says saya murphy A number of fit impugning the ilia of the be pennant races in tho the major leagues liuio haio onto omo to a prom limit chicago paper lit in the past fey few weeks with tile the request wit some of them bo answered the hobt persist ent antei locator along these lines asks aska I 1 baseball bung bang on oil a race horse basis Js Is tho the game being to got get tile the people is in onci 9 laas ball magnates to whom these wre wire mere indig nant and loath to diat them serl seri bously such questions question ale aie said president chaales A of 0 tile tho white sox for 10 acar such ques lions have allsen and in all that time I 1 have never known knon a single incident dont which could give a sano sane ground tot foi making an such auch charge io my mind the argument arguin ont that cain all bo bf put foith in showing that there la Is no such thing as aa jockey ing in a pennant etien la Is that thai detroit the poorest town lit in the tha Amei leati leaggo ci rc ill 1 M won on the flag a tar ar ako ago and Is fighting just as hard this year it thare was mas ana nil fixing to lo ile he done one it would ho be the that hat tau tan giodice ill UK moat moni that would bo be fa vo i ed rake tile case of the new york ailigh is I 1 winning lea team for ill the Ameil can itcague it ague tit in new PW york would biang thousands thoua inda and thousands thoua inda of 0 dol jar inars into tile hie offeit of dint club that do not come now because the team has hag lom losing han the lie sox and cubb cuba were mere play ing for the chain championship in 1906 alere 1 ere bete hundreds huu dieda eds or of fall fans a in tho bleachers at the south side park on the lay day we won mou the deciding game feame who predicted that tile the cubs cubi would mould skill ln because it was wai their As a matter or of fact tile tho sox won that game still these mise ones thought we me were trying to prolong the beiles to get na as audi monea us aa possible filin the public it the tha truth Is known knon these fana falls would know that the players niana geis and owners in that set leilca ia wanted to win every single game that was biown last fall lu in the cub deti deficit ait oit set aps fps had the cubs cuba lost that last game in fit deliott which aich waa mas played beffie a few thousand people tile teams could have come hack bach tier here a to the west side bide to play beffie beffi a 30 people dad they do it ltv not ou on lour our life ahey eio on oil the square just as aa Is other contest in fix the big leagues Pits resident ident lorils L tp tip oneill of the league when asked for foi an expression said 11 1 I notice that the witter wilier bay aada he played baseball for many i ears cars said oneall 0 isello and inthis it this writer mew anew of any when he was waa playing it to la gratifying to note the nigh plane to which the he game has haa been el elevated it was mas never bi ought brought so BO klarl to my attention I 1 havo have made a life m work ork of baseball I 1 alt plied ed the game wl en I 1 m was as a youngster and served my time as aa a league player my heart has haa been in my work and I 1 took look upon ba baseball ceball as the sport in the history of the world it if this writer knew of crookedness crooked in league baseball ho he ts to the flint man in tho the history of tho the game to my iny knowl adge to place himself on record to that enact still this writer intimates that there la Is something wrong rong because he placed tho game for many pars ears and it if such buch things existed in ills his time I 1 am only too phoud in oud of my lily connection with a sport aport which has been elevated to its ita present state which I 1 am willing to joclare NIt without hout is absolutely above reproach and beyond the palo pale of a suspicion president murphy of the chicago cubs cuba in tho the most emphatic of I 1 III lan it guage declares aies that baseball la is absolutely abone aboe suspicion as conducted in the lijoi leagues tha greatest argument in favor of cit the he honesty of baseball occurred last fall in detroit when b 1 losing a game the cubs cuba could have come home to lily sunday sunda to 0 o the biggest crowd that ever saw BAW a ball game I 1 lefore tile the game 1 I said 1 I 1 hope they beat deficit by a million I 1 told the team the taci had to ala that game on oil Sat satin inday day and they hey did tt it there werft nero to be any jockel ing for gate recel pta that was as the chanco wo we rould could almost mee for one here and there abere would have been beeh thou thousands bands of D dollars adal additional dional for both clubs and the yera nut there la no 0 such thing aks is dishonesty in 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