Beaver County News | 1916-08-25 | Page 3 | Johnson has Correct Idea

JOHNSON HAS CORRECT IDEA Falsely Advertising Star Player in Effort Ef-fort to Pad Box Office Receipts Is Displeasing. Ban Johnson hasthe right Idea in trying to break-up the practice of falsely advertising a star player In an effort to pad the gate receipts, but ho Is plcklrg on the wrong club as the horrible example, writes Harry Keck In Pittsburgh Post. The recent advertising adver-tising of a Covaloskie vs. Covaleskie pitching duel which was not staged, or some other similar occurrence, is more like the thing Ban should got at. Another An-other abuse along the same lines is the carrying by a club of a high-priced beauty for weeks before sending him into a game, thereby leaving it up to lhe fans to presume that ho will be nscd almost any clay. This has been done time after time when it was clear to everybody that the big idea was to nsi? that particular r layer as a box ofhee attraction as long as possible without working him. Y'et no one ever .t'-.rtod a rumpus in those Instances. ueh practices are not fair to the fans. .u fact, some of them smack of deliberate delib-erate misrepresentation and if Ban Inhnson can curb them he will be riven the united thanks of the hase-iall hase-iall public and not In his own league ;(ane.