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Show lllllllllllllll I1111 I111!!!1111! I11111"1! 1,111 mm 1 11,11,11111 II I'PPj millll llllllUiUllll Inn iiiihtlntl riuiiiiiil mi iiiiitiiiiilll liiiiiiiiii II lull Kyij llllllliliilllllii The landlord stood outside the door And shook an angrv fist; He made some threatening remarks uf which this is the gist: "l do not want you in my house. Get out. vamoose and flit; Call lip a vjn .iiiil move right off r 1 will gel a writ." The tennant hollered through the door: "Go V" and hoMd your peat 1 I'll stay right here all winter long. Because I've got a lease." Th- landlord got a wrecking crew. Each armed with axe and pick. And they got busy' on the house And razed it. brick by brick. Dismembered roof and falling walla, The tennant put to rout. Whereat the smiling landlord said: "I got that fellow out! 1 . . ; EleVen major league bail clubs have 'subscribed to a plan eliminating the ! national baseball commission and substituting sub-stituting for it a new body composed of three Influential men not financially interested In baseball. v ... The magnates representing these eleven dubs are honestly sincere m 1 their belief that this will cure the diseases of baseball and restore the I game 10 its former health and confidence. confi-dence. ... The p.an may accomplish this, hut It is also likely to smarh the American Ameri-can league and put Ran Johnson out of baseball. . It is natural for the fans to wonder ; how the magnates eliminated their personal feelings when they sub-m sub-m nhed t.i this plan ... Barney Droyfuse signed the compact. com-pact. He was also In Chicago about the time the grand Jury began its Investigation In-vestigation on personal business." He did not go before the grand Jury, but soon after he left town the so-called ltsker plan' of 1 organization was announced. He probably was not forgett'gVg the fact that the national commission took ! Slsler away from him and gave him to St. .Louis when he signed the agreement agree-ment which is intended to abolish the commission. . . I Nor was Charles Comiskey unaware when he signed that success of the new agreement meant the retirement ' of his enemy, Ban Johnson. And so forth and so on. . There Is a possibility that there is too much axe-gTlndltjg In this effort of the magnates to dean house. Maybe some of them don't realize that this is a crisis and that trw-y'd better get together and actually clean house and forget tlnir Internal troubles. trou-bles. ' ' ' In the anxiety of some of the American Ameri-can league owners to get rid of President Presi-dent Johnson, they may tear down the whole structure. Perhaps Ihey prefer to move the house rather than bounce I the tenant, because it is easier to do it that way. . . Perhaps the wrecking of the American Ameri-can league and the discomfiture of 1 Big Ban will keep bad ball players 1 from throwing gajnea. And perhaps they won't. 00 |