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Show ! UNPOPULARITY IS BIG BUSINESS GETTER Frequently unpopularity pays good dividends. John J. McGraw was atone time cordially loathed In Chicago and Pittsburgh. It Is possible that he is not beloved In either center of civilization civili-zation now. He is, however, more popular pop-ular than he once was, and consequently conse-quently the Giants no longer do the business In those cities they did before be-fore he began to lose his unpopularity. unpopular-ity. Frank Leroy Chance was as unpopular unpopu-lar in New York as John J. McGraw was In Chicago, yet no team ever did the business at the Polo grounds that the Cub outfit did when It was led by the Peerless Leader, and when it was takoo around the country by Secretary Secre-tary Charles G. Williams. There may be a reopening of the old spirit of hostility in Chicago toward McGraw and in New York toward Tinker this year. Should the old popular pop-ular prejudices against these men be revived, an Increase In the gate receipts re-ceipts may be expected. |