Show n nn Hint of Crookedness in in Baseball Is Usually Caused Ly by Magnates Let a II layman laman hint in III the presence plC nce of or n 1 baseball magnate that tho na national pastime Is not always a II square sport or that pennant races race may be so manipulated as 11 to produce the bent beAt re results 1 I at tho th gate and there thero always Is an explosion lon The atmosphere Is shattered 1 with vehement language de deploring deploring the benighted condition of oC the tho outsider who dares express ox pres such opinion lon ion and the argument Inevitably winds up with lilt the stock detonation The Theroan roan who doubts the honesty hon ty of or ball cannot himself be trusted out of or sight nays a writer In the tho Chicago Tribune Let the same samo or another layman ex express express press tho opinion that ball players do donot not do best to win or give voice to tho popular belief bElIer UH t certain players would like to see a certain team win In tho pennant consequently wilt will not overexert themselves to defeat their favorite and tho layman will willbe b be subjected to a II tremendous volume f r righteous wrath from any un or ball baU player within hearing This is III right and as It should hould be Thoro Is not a IJ person who han haK been Intimately connected with baseball for any an length of or time as player manager club owner bat boy 00 or the minor oa 1 of Ir who doubts for on an Instant the Ih honesty of or tits tire American nations nation greatest sport or of ot the players engaged In It NOT OT PUBLICS FAULT The Th altitude of or n R portion of or the puh llo WIttIch Is I looking for BUS us happenings or scandals sC In III base bue ban bal is deplored by b all connected with It anti and the tho blamo Is laid to tho publics conscience which la Is charged with Ith be being Je JeIn ing In uneasy hence suspicious of every everyone ono one ind everything But Dut Is III the publics attitude of doubt regarding baseball always the publics fault 1 Is It the publics fault If IC It taken at nt face tace value the tho clamoring of oC a club owner tho fairness or honesty of oC a decision lon by the national commission which de deprives JI J that club owner ow of or a ball player to whom he ho thought he hall had a claim Is IR It the publics fault If It U It listens ns With large ears when a 1 ball player who has boon beon punished for some Infraction of or baseball law brands the court ourt of or the sport as a bunch of oC poll poli politicians grafters spending money that belongs to the players Is It tho publics fault If It believes the umpires on whoso honesty rests tho Issue of r game played and of or every eor pen ren pennant nant race lire are prejudiced t even crooked crooke when these charges arc bandied openly and repeatedly by ball ballPlayers Players and by club owners In the tho heat of ot passion 7 This dissertation Is not Intended as I nn nil attack or a defense of or the hont ly of ot baseball It Is 1 merely a 1 warning to who wh benefit by b baseball much more than they can In any other line of endeavor with equal ef er effort fort rort or ability a warning that tha public nubile cannot believe In tho honl ty of or him who lauds the honesty of or base baseball ball 1 In one breath and besmirches It with the tho next a II great portion of or orthe the public Is 18 prone to believe bellee morn more truth Is II to be round found In the knock than in the boost |