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Show W I' IS BASEBALL H 1 hone8tt l II Evory other man that you moot H a will say that professional baseball la I 'il crooked. Ho tolerantly regards the I fj bowling grandstand as childish. Why I f( Kot so liotover what Is largely staso I play and a framDiip? 48! The Tomarkablo outcome of tlio l -world's sofips contest this year must B JM Hiiggest a different point of view B I 1 "'"" to these superior skeptics. It LI t hMhhhK ' Is usually said that this series is pur posely prolonged by tho managements to swell tho gato receipts. Yet tho Iloston Draves took four straight, tho tens of thousands of dollars could have boon had by letting tho Athletics Athlet-ics tako a game or two. Thoro aro fow things In the world that absorb monoy so fast as a losing ball team, unless it bo an unprofitable unprofit-able dally newspaper. Any manager can Increaso his receipts 100 to 200 per cent by putting tho team on a winning basis. True blue sports urgo that the team bo supported winning win-ning or losing. Human nature does not run ln that groove. It may say It goes to tho gamo to watch sclenco In an Impersonal way. Out most men nro not Interested In strategy and skill unless It Is displayed by tho homo team. A losing ball team Is never a money mnkor. Under theso circumstances, a manager man-ager that "throws" a gamo against his own team is taking stops to cut his gato rocolpts In two. No sum available by crooked work could pos- : slbly mnko up for tho losses that re-"Bult re-"Bult from losing games. Similarly with tho player. Crooked work is under the white light of tho thousand eyes, and a man's salary rises and falls with tho success or falluro of his team. No doubt thcro is crooked work tn baseball, Just as thcro Is fool work In any kind of a business, nut there is no calling whero crookedness operates op-erates so Instantly against tho man who perpotrates it. It is burning his own monoy. |