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Show P v Wken solfera miss some of 'em TS " CUS3 Vx -nd CUS3 unt!1 they're red, - yytf&J'J, While others, being more ppllte, "" r'' Have me do 11 stead. BgWRMfn-ibO fiyVirrihil. i .. i'a i iwvmi "j... Old Doctor Odds. Oleagonous skate, With long silky beard And benevolent pate,. Goes after suckegs Both early and lalo. ".'I love the game." 1 ' He sj.ys with a smile; ' The old reprobate ' v Has a heart full of guile; ' "Baseball's a sport whicJi . Is after my style." .. , "I think," lie says, SV-"The SV-"The game lacks a. Lh'rjfil To gain sonic now zest ,T. It requires a pill; '-v- .. I'll make it a gen- - Ulno pastime, I will. . , ? - "T will prescribe y A bolus the samo V,.. Which had such effect , On the horse-racing garnet I'll let in the crooks -. . The pastimo's.too tame." Baseball has changed -a- lot in recent yearn fn a way which does not appear in the box scores or the batting averages. aver-ages. There is still that multitude of fans who lovo the game for its clean exhibition of athletic prowess and :is constant thrill. BUT Anothor group has sprung up. They call themselves "lovers of tne gamo." but how they do It without blushing is beyond our k?n. They talk of the game in the terms of betting. bet-ting. Tho success of somo recruit pitcher means nothing to them except that ho is a long shot and they have money on' tho right end. Betting has taken hold of baseball from, many angles. There is blind hotting hot-ting on high scores and out-and-out wagering with odds. It is not the old -fashioned betting where friends wagered a new iron hat ou a pennant or risked a dollar's worth of cigars on a game. 1 This is cold-blooded betting v.c are talking abouL Professional gamblers are doing it. And in a short t!me they have done enough to involve sui-ficient sui-ficient baseball players in a snaj-i of scandal to make up a nine, beaton and Smith on tho coast; Zimmerman. Hal Chase, .Magee are stars who havet been named in the public prints. And there have been plenty of scandalous stories about other ball players who have not been barred from the came. Dirty, lov-downv gambling will kill baseball just as it killed horse-racing. The magnates do well to acknowledge publicly tho evil and to say they are going to fight. They should have started long ago. They'll have to travel far and hard lo check even the lighter forms of the disease. They'll have to stop It In the ball parks, and some of the owners will have .to show u greater spirit or cooperation co-operation than they have done in the past if this is to be accomplished. And then they'll have to go out and get the help of the police to stop booK-maklng booK-maklng on theball games stuff that Is perpetrated outside tho ball parks and by people 'who may rarely see a game. It's .a tough Job. But the picture of an oily-faced gambler who. murmurs that he Is a lover, of the gamo' and at the same time is doing his level best to choke it to death, should so arouse tho gumption of real fans, real lovers of the game, that they will go around thumping tho known ganiblers on tho nose. "Which treatment, by tho way, is a lot moro effective that anything the police are likely to do or mag- nates, either, for that matter |