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Show BULL FIGHTS AXD BASE BALL Bull fightint is the national sport in Spain. lri the United States it is base ball. In Spain every one goes to see the matadore vanquish the bull, from king down to the humblest citizen. It is a gala day, and the matadore is a national hero. In this country large numbers of people go to the ball games, from the office boy down to the head of the firm. The electric wires flash the result to the entire nation. The Bull fight is clean, even if it is gory. Graft apparently has not entered into the sport, as the n ata-dore ata-dore could hardly "throw" the fight in favor of the bull without having his insides tossed all over the arena from the horns of the pain maddened madden-ed animal. But base ball, the American national nat-ional game? Honest lovers of the sport are sick, nauseated, holding their noses from the stench of the graft that is creeping in. What will future championship pennants mean? To the public they will be decorated decorat-ed with the emblem of the almighty dollar the dirty dollar of graft indicating that some Judas of the diamond has sunk his honor in iniquity ini-quity and thrown the game for a filthy mess of gambler besmirched pottage. Unless the base bill world e.r. be thoroughly and effectively purged of these grafting traitors, and the honest hon-est players protected from suspicion, we miglU well consign the ball and and the bat to oblivion and import a few bulls and matadores from ancient Spain. The sport would be slippery with the blood of the vanquished, but the public would at least know that the laurels of the victor were honestly honest-ly won. |