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Show I g! He spoke unto a bookie In accents soft and low I wan' upon a ball game To bet a little dough " The bookie took bis money And wrote the fellow's name. And the audacious gambler Went out to sec the game I The team on w hich he'd wagered Ran Aery far behind; Our hero left the ball p,.rk I . With an enfrenzled mind He sent the boss a message. I It made the wires hum; 'It said "I want to tell you 1 Your team is on the bum" Nothing succeeds like BUCC6 - Some supposedly smart fellow made this remark once upon a time and since then il has been pa n current for truth and getting into Bartlett's Quotations and books like I that. But success cannot be considered a real success If it brins jn tts I wake a lot of failure, ! The Cincinnati R ds seem to hav e been afflicted with some of the ailments ail-ments which follow success. Success is best enjoyed by those who have had experience or who have the po Be necessary to appreciate it Sucee was too new and strange a thiug for the Reds, apparently. They won last sear's pennant on,' gg I i heir merits, but success brought with it germs which kepi them fioYfi win ning the flag this season. I Success baa made some of the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati players temperamental. Some of them got the idea they did not Di .1 to keep at the top notch of condition; con-dition; some took hold of the notion they knew more baseball than Pat Moran. As a result. Pat has had to punish -ome of them He had to let Slim Sallee go and he had to hang heav - fines on several players. incinnati doesn t win the 1920 flag, it's a cinch there will be a big shakeup. provided the defeat docs not deflate the gourds ot some of the players, Last, There are rumors 0f a proposed I , ade involving a leading player of the Reds and a star from another National league team. r BBe0 ! S M " " " Ol ,n SBSV and some of Them ha o' jbeen jn the habit of laying heeavllv on the outcome of certain gamea and aeries this season. They have been unet in f 'natancea; and a ntTbd S ffl? ' er." getting after certain piayeVT ' gamblers djcute who3 pi?ch and |