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Show JOHNSON HAS CORRECT IDEA Falsely Advertising Star Player in Effort Ef-fort to Pad Box Office Receipts Is Displeasing. Ban Johnson has the right idea in trying to break up the practice of falsely advertising a star player In an effort to pad the gate receipts, but he is picking on the wrong club as the horrible example, writes Harry Keck in Pittsburgh Post. The recent advertising adver-tising of a Covaleskie vs. Covaleskie pitching duel which was not staged, or some other similar occurrence, is more like the thing Ban should get at. Another An-other abuse along the same lines is the canying by a club of a high-priced beauty for weeks before sending him into a game, thereby leaving it up to '.he fans to presume that he will he used almost any day. This has been done time after time when it was clear to everybody that the big idea was to ust that particular rlayor as a bos ofiice attraction as long as possible .vithout working him. YTet no one ever tt.rled a rumpus in these instances. i!i-li practices are not fair to the fans. fact, seme of them smack of deiih--rate misrepresentation and if Ban lohnson can curb them he will be :iven the united, thanks of the base-lall base-lall publis and not In his own league ;lone. |