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Show l lit- lil W The burlai sat upon his bench. inside the prison wall; He wiped a teardrop off his cheek. And then began to bawl. i" have a cell all to myself," lie thus becan to wail. "I've had a fairly dvcetu time Since I was put in Jail. "The pals I meet from time to time To me are very dar; You'd be surprised the class of scouts I That one encounters here. "But If they'd put yorne baseball ooU In this here pert believe Yours Truly, that will pive us boyi Sufficient cause to ffrlevo. "And If by some unhappy chance 1 have lo share my home With one of them, ill move, because I'd rather be alone." t According to dispatches rrom South Carolina, It appears that some proinot- :ers tried to utap a ball game In Joe Jackson's home town In which Joe and his friend, Claude Williams, wore to appear. ! To the credit of the community, be It said, that the plan was frowned on. The park could not be obtained for Isuch a purpose and the game was abandoned. I Then came word that Jackson nnd I Wll llami were lnteTsted In another project. They planned to get possession posses-sion of another park and stage a ball jgama In which some big league play-ers play-ers were to appear along with the pair of Chicago ganie-t hrowers. The names of these players were H given in th. dispatches from South H Carolina, but the story can hardly be 1 'credited. Foolish as some ball play- H jers seem to be. there Is aurel) none H croay enough to in a game with 1 tiny of the known crooks- I' H . , . The way ol 'Ik- t m nsgi -e-sor in base- M 1 ball is going to oe mights hard In tho J j H ThOSi who believed that the stars H in the VVhlte Sox scandal H would be forgiven, or at bast taken , H hack in tin- next year, are think- If ever In baseball were to be H found gutltv of dishonesty and ex- 1 pi lied th same , sso on just the .No club owm i will trifle with his nations bi keeping ausploioned play- H I Ml to H Lsssfl The trade mark of dishonesty on a iH hid player is about the deepest stab H that can be given him. H . . . Comlsktty acted (piickly when the H spotlight revealed the black sheep in H his fold other owners will do the H same thing. H ... Baseball may be a business so far H is the owners arc concerned, but to the public baseball is a sport and can- ff not be manipulated like Wall street propositions. . ! To tamper with baseball as anything H else hut a sport Is to kill It. H |