Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-21 | Page 14 | The Insider Says

cilwim; i p B UiLl I i i.il. Tw as houst i leaping time In BallyHIe And the magnates ail were there; They cams arrayed like houeewlyes With towels round their hair. In overalls and Jumpers, And with tin -:r sle - . rolled high, They were pr.-i.-ared to wallop The lii t and muke il 1 1 Some irougbi the mpps and brusheg And dthers brought some orooms With other tools which women 15m ploy to clean then- rooms There was a lot of soap chips And cnlorihati d llm With all the lye add borax one needs at such a time. A real old -faslilom d mngm-iie I Was last to reach the scene; ! He had not e'en a dust rag I With which the game t" clean. He met his fellow magnates With this familiar hall. l''Oh, look ill what I've brought you, j Some whitewash In a pail!" Tin- cleaners took tbir. magnate And tossed him through th door. While after hlin they shOUtl .i 'That stuff don't fro no more!" While the magnates f baseball are busily enRaiied in se.-Uin- . adntlon of their troubles it mtghl e Well to give them some housctfeantng advice tlt will help tbem. The reCenl meeting iii Chicago and the coming sessions In Kansas i (ty in-' dlcate that the business of putting the! Rann' in sanitary condition is going to! be some Job, not unattended bj pcy-, soua bickering and internal ruction. ! It might be good stuff for the mag-; nates to turn their minds to the Players Play-ers themselves In this crisis There was m time when the club owners frowned on the ball players' j organization. They didn't want to have their piayjsrs organised and making o lot of demands and causing u lot of trouble Hut after all, the players maj be in 1 better shape tn band this crooked .sinlf and curi the gambling eii than either; the magnates or the public. w The vast majority of the players are on the square and they are ln . iolllg oi i i gh to know thai their future fu-ture success defends on the survival, of baseball as the national game Give them a eh. nice and they'll' make the game honest and keep it that! way- . . Lot the ball players have an effcc- j tlve orgauiz-itloiT and they II find tin-crooks tin-crooks might) soon and read ihem out! of the game. w c Think it over, magnates.