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Show BRAVES GIF OGDEN VISITOR George Stallings Pays Tribute to Comiskey for Ousting Bribe Takers George Stallings. inanaper of the Boston Braves in the National league, was an Ogjdeil visitor today en route to the coast. SLnllinrs was accompanied accom-panied by Fred W. Pearson, secretary secre-tary of the Braves. That some action must be taken Immediately Im-mediately for the protection of base-hall base-hall was the opinion expressed ! St&lllnga and Pearson while in this city. "The recent scandal which developed devel-oped in the Chicago oluh of the American Ameri-can league has hurt baseball to some exient." said StallLips, "but in my opinion In the future the uanie will I"- b Her than over, at least when the heads of the various ClUbs thresh out the trouble and make some restrictions re-strictions that will safeguard the game." "Charlie Comiskey of the Chicago club is one of the greatest characters in baseball and when he canned' the men Involved in the scandal h. threw more than $3fo.OOO in American money into the street. The players In my opinion were worth that much, but the ' ld Roman did It for the good of th-' paine. and believe me 1 surely admire hiiu for his action. It may take years nnd years to rel.insl the crumpled machine but when It is repaired it will be a machine for e,-an Lis hil! and not an underminded cluh like the one whieh lost the 1 1U 9 world i i " "In the opinion of eastern sporl writers no punishment Is too great for the men Involved in the scandal. S'omc of th pi ers on the team, especially es-pecially FelSCb, Williams. McMullen and Blslier. were just ttlnu in thelrj prifne1 said Pearson, "and their careers ca-reers In the Kanie are now ruined, i They ru e done a h- u t I m orican-lzed orican-lzed baseball. "Jusi what the penalty for Ihe plav-ers plav-ers Involved will be can not he de- I termlned until the Cook county grans) jury passes on the cases. In my opin- ; ion the men will be barred from base-ball, base-ball, and In the opinion of eastern fans the majority of them will never don uniforms again " Stalllnps and Pearson departed for Ls Angeles today where they will winter. |