| Show NO GRATITUDE IN IM BASEBALL criticism of connie mack for releasing three veteran players not based on business principles there has been a good deal of comment in the papers recently about the alleged ingratitude of connie mack alack in asking for releases on some come of his old players such talk Is common ordinary nonsense connie mack la Is engaged in a bustness business which In involves solves the investment of largy sums of money ile he Is an agent or trustee for capitalists and ho he has no right in that capacity to feel arly any gratitude or to have any personal feelings whatever except as those feelings square up with his business judgment and his duty tc his stockholders baseball has gotten beyond the point where there is any sympathy in it in any way shape or manner it la Is a cold blooded business arrangement from start to finish and players and managers and even stockholders real e J Y N I 1 IF I 1 connie mack izo ize it if they realize anything that tho the more business that Is applied to tho the running of 0 baseball the bigger the chances are for returns on money invested connie mack Is placed where lie he Is because he be can return the stockholders div dividends idenys and dividends are the th in ga which investors are after these days it if tom dick or harry old war horses and heroes of nanny many wonderful erfil contests of bygone days can no longer attract crowds or deliver goods they are no longer available as dividend paying investments and must bo be let out it may look like ingratitude on tho the part of mack alack to ruthlessly set adrift these men but gratitude as a business asset does not always return big dividends in organized ball charley comiskey Is the only man perhaps who can make gratitude pay exchange |
