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Show EBBETS IS SELF-MADE BASEBALL MAGNATE I C. H. Ebbots of the Brooklyn club is a self-made baseball magnate. When the Brooklyns owned by Byrne, Doyle and Abbell. played at old Wash- f lngton park twenty-five years ago, i Ebbets was a ticket seller and a j schedule maker. He made up his mind even then to become the owner I of tho club some day and he never , stopped trying. When tho Brooklyns were consolidated with the rival Players' league team at Eastern park, Ebbets was made secretary, and when C II. Bvrnc died he was elected pres- IdenL He held that office after the 9 Brooklyn-Baltimore deal was con- j summated fourteen years ago. and gradually ho bought up the stock un- a til today he controls 90 per cent of it. S Somebody asked Ebbets recently If he 1 would sell the Brooklyn club, and ho 1 replied: "If I did what would I do 1 to pass the time? Baseball is a life 1 study with me and I would be lost 1 without it!" |