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Show The baseball magnate loves to fight (No, not exactly thatl He loves to talk about a fight And chattel through his hat Brown lovea to tell the waning world What he will do to Jones; While Green delights to mention how He II fracture Smlthers' bones. But In the end the fans will notei How lovely It will be. With magnate shaking magnate 3 hand And weeping In his "tea." Personally, wo don't care whether they weep In the tea or their near-beer. near-beer. Just so they don't spill their tears on the general public. All of America loves baseball, but tho country hates squabbles and the more actual ball we get ajid the less bawling, the better will be the state of affairs. The recent upheaval between the major league reminds us of a lady of the house trying to clean up the place with a whisk broom Whatever makes a magnate think he can wipe out a black smear by-throwing by-throwing Ink on It" You can fool all tho players some of the time and some of the players all of the time. But It's pretty blamed hard to bunk the general public any of the time with such stuff as baseball top notch-ers notch-ers have attempted. Ever hear of war In tennis circles? Or in golf circles? Or in bowling alleys? al-leys? The only suggestion of war In football foot-ball games Is In the actual playing. And that's part of the game Certainly not! Folks play the game for all there Is In It. and thev play It fair and square. If tennis, golf, bowling and football, can come over th platter clean, why not baseball? In the long run, the pathway to) the right sort of Great American game will depend greatly on Mr. and Mrs General Public. I f you go Into a butcher shop audi pay for pork chops, you're a fine .boob If you allow the butcher to hand yoo ? a soup bone. When you're paying to see a ball jjJ game, don't let the big heads in the baseball world hand you a second edi- tlon of the Civil war. H If the ball magnates want to fight. f ' lei ' m talk to bempaey or Carpn- rA Jflllll |