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Show Mexican Baseball "Mexican baseball," according to Dudley Roberts, a leading golfer and a keen baseball fan, would be a riot In the United States. "It would outdraw all the race tracks, all the present ball games, all our football games and all the big fights," he said. "What has Mexican baseball got that we haven't got?" I asked. "Just one little trifling detail," Mr. Roberts replied. "Mutuel machines ma-chines and bookmakers who operate oper-ate batter by batter and Inning by Inning. You can make a bet on every ev-ery man coming to bat, the result of any inning or on the full game as the odds change from time to time." "So far the race tracks have out-drawn out-drawn baseball through weekdays In the United States. Can yon Imagine what would happen If the ball parks could follow the Mexican system and Introduce the machines and the booklcs7" We can also Imagine what would happen to Judge Kencsaw Mountain Landls. We have a vague Idea the Judge wouldn't care for this Mexican system sys-tem In American baseball. Not very much. "Mexico Is the only place I've seen," Roberts continued as he began be-gan to pock for another" Mexican trip, "whore the ballplayers often ride the spectators harder than the spectators ride them. Ballplayers there understand the art of making certain gestures that can bo rougher I than words. I "You know the verbal beatings ' some of the ballplayers tko In this country. I'd like to have a few of these Mexican ballplayers handling tills heckling contingent. Wo might I have a few riots, but there wouldn't be much more heckling." |