Show MAGNATES BROUGHT ON HEAVY EXPENSES high coshof cost of ma major or league ball no fault of players club owners formed habit of spending money like sailors on shore leave for stars of game also built fine parks the hah it ih cost of baseball as it applies 0 0 the tha major leagues Is being felt more inora heavily than ever before by tho the men mea who control the game there has been a great deal of dissatisfaction expressed by some of t the I 1 e club owners over the expense of running a big league ball club for the past three or four years but since uncle samuel tossed ills his chapeau into the big ring it has grown stronger yet in reality the magnates have little leeway to yelp for with the exception cep tion of adverse influence caus caused d by the federal league they tire are alone to blame for the fact that operating major league clubs costs like sixty the players are not responsible for the fact that the club owners formed a habit of spending money like sailors on shore leave for the stars of the game they are not to blame because certain clubs or club owners were billing to pay big fat salaries to their tead liners and it lg Is no fault of the player that he lias has come to expect these things in the big show baseball has grown to be the greatest of sports it Is the most popular pastime and recreation of the american public and the bags have made it what it Is they have made it it strictly commercialized sport that Is very much jn in demand and as in any other business tho the club owner who makes the biggest hit bit with his public Is the one who gets the gravy there been a major league ball park built within recent years that was not built to accommodate a worlds series crowd that Is the aim of every club to get into a worlds series but fine parks high salaries and spirited bidding for the services of the stars of the diamond are tho the work of the club owners alone so why should they yelp baseball is a red blooded sport and a cold cohr blooded business it has been built up to a standard level and it must be kept there so the use of the magnate couching over the high cost of it he lead the worst life in the world by a whole lot |