Show I Crooks Muscle In InThe InThe InThe The trouble is that sport hasn't been as clean as it should be Too many smart and crooked hangers hangers- on have been chiseling in through the last 20 years The crooked stupid and cowardly underworld has been looking for the open gaps This applies to racing football baseball basketball and any sport that commands the public interest The underworld has been looking over sports sport's rich pastures too roo long They have seen the harvest that could be taken over And too many of them have taken over over over-espe- espe especially in racing and boxing The crooks expect to have even better luck with baseball and football And nobody seems to know just what they can do about it For the crooks as a rule are smarter than the honest people At least they know their goal and how to get there And not even the government of the United States has the faintest idea of how these thieves and crooks can be handled So they are permitting this country's major interest interest in in- terest to take its major beating too deeply interested in politics which seldom has been on the level Boxing has been packed with crooks crocks So has racing These are the two sports that need most care and neither is getting the protection that it needs |