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Show SQUAWK OVER MONEY IS BAD Public In Recent Years Soured on Professional Pro-fessional Baseball Players Fans Disgusted. The squawk of the Red Sox and Cubs ball players prior to a recent game In Boston, the threatened strike because they could not see why they should not be paid the same amount of money handed over to world's series se-ries players of former years, is Just about the last straw that will break the camel's back, writes William Peet in Pittsburgh Dispatch. - The idea of refusing to dori their uniforms before the game unless they were guaranteed a certain sum out of the world's series receipts, and finally backing down at the last minute because be-cause the handwriting on the wall was plainly seen, Is about as asinine and foolish a piece of work as has been chronicled in many a day. Such actions by knights of the spiked shoe merely disgust loyal fans, and when the game is resumed after the war there should such a thorough thor-ough housi-cleanlng that every vestige of the former grasping, pampered player be blotted from the map. That near-strike at Boston has given giv-en the game a black eye that will not., toon be forgotten. j |