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Show The baseball fan picked up the sheet With oulte a weary' air. "I wonder who's been gambling now?" Said he, with troubled stare. 'in days of old I used lo say That crooks might rule the world. But you could bet there was no fake In baseball flag unfurled. "But now you cannot watch a game With any peace of mind. You think the home team won. and then 'Twas merely thrown, you find " But. of course, as yet we've not heard any scandal to the efrect that the cricketers In Philadelphia are playing the double-cross game. Besides, who'd care If they did? They've even heaid of easy dough in South America. "News note: Luis A, Frlpo. South American heavyweight champion. Is coming to the United States to box " Box what Crackers'' We'd like to read about What Cox and Harding aay. But tell us how we can "o that And watch baseballers play ? The league of nations interests us, And all Its legal phrases But the American league race still Is on. With all Its three-team phases. Jack Dempsey got $55,000 for three rounds or righting. President Wilson got $75,000 ror one vear of work Babe Ruth got $100,000 for a single sin-gle picture Franklin D Roosevelt, six gears ago, passed up an opportunity to make several thousand dollars In real estate because he didn 1 have J 8.000. Man O' War earned $15'000 in We haven't got time for more. but HOW Dl THEY GET THAT V A.I eijfht races. |