The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-08
E PAGE OF SPORTS
MEXICAN LEAGUE
RACE STILL ON
Pnderful Fight Between Four
Leading Clubs Has All
Fans Guessing.
BY TIM MURNANE.


this Bryon Bancroft johnson
psf be. With his magic he can turn
|despised, broken-down lot of base
~ players into high-class winning
positions. BY his genius he has
len the American public the most
EereSt1ng race ever known to the
me, when one-half the clubs % his
Pat league have taken the lead in a
kek with the season three-duartprs
ser, creating and maintaining a con-
lon for healthy sport that has forced
closest attention 10 his orgsniza-
b.
With five, weeks yet 10 play and the
/ at prize still in sight for four clubs
II any Wonder that Jealous rivals
Puld look for some hook on which to
pig a complaint You win ever find
pr sportsmen I'm all games. and per-
sps the most CONSPICUOUS for medals
this STYLE of work Just now hail
m P1ttsburg. On the last trio here
the P1ttsburg club William Locks,
1retary of the National league team
Ethat city, Went on record to say that
wonderful Johnson man had fixed
/ race in the American league He
mt say how Mr. Johnson accom-
I
inferred that all was not on the
Knock From Smoky City.
Eou see. the American league is a
5rn I'm the side of the men who back
old league club of the Smoky CITY:
baseball magnates and managers
Euld be the last to knock their own
pc. We all admit that b. 3. John
Is a baseball genius and has done
Eerb work for the American league.
even more for the national game.
could could Mr. Johnson work out
.ondition such as now attracts the
Fting world by questionable
{hods with the men who play the
be on the ball field?
{ once knew a man who claimed he
+. id order his men TO make safe hits
they were absolutely sure to obey.
his way he had a team of invinci-
Lplayers and could win at will This
II fellow was boarding i'm a lonely
Zitutfon on the crest of a hill over
ling Connecticut valley. It was the
ee Of the weak-minded. Mr. john
may have wonderful power, but I
remember how he worked last
$on to help our unfortunate Boston
er1can club out of a bad predica-
~, but could not prevent the team
p landing at the bottom. He was
helping Washington and Detroit.
Eact. Charlie Comiskey pointed To
time spent by Mr.. johnson in try
{ 10 help along weak sisters Now.
he DR.. Johnson was entirely IN
! TO give but temporary relief to
tail-enders last season, the pre-
ption that he passed out had the
per effect in at least two OF the
&s-Detroit and Boston-and might
b helped the patient at Washing
had not his advice been ignored.
Owners of Leading Clubs.
be It2Sr clubs now in the race for
Amssican league honors are Cieve-
controlled by Charles Somers:
4ago, owned by Charles COmiskey:
roit, owned and controlled bv
<ionaiTe sportsman OF that city. and
! Athletics of Philadelphia. owned
managed by Ben Shibe and Connie
K Is there any question about the
esty of these well-knOWn charac-
AS a rule. the players have lit
Use for Mr.. Johnson. In fact. play
seldom kiss the hand that boxes
q ears, for the causes and exac-
5 of a baseball league must often
+ ire the use of the rod to keen the
sh ball players and managers in
yen If President Ban Johnson.
fident Harry Pulliam or any other
il man was inclined to regulate
Is for the championship by attempt
unfair methods, that man could not
q In baseball one week. The PLAYERS
Id be the first to discover the move
s would make Niagara sound like
n whistle with their bowling chO-
The winning of a major, or, in
minor league championship. is
<dearest thing in the world. next to
lily ties, to the ball player. 1t was
4dream az he grew w and learned
j fine points of the game. and no
j who has played the game as a
*ession could ever consider the
zght that anything could be fixed
that clubs could make mons of
lend teams TO let others reap all
glory.
Force in National.
IL American league race is
8ty. The National league race a
e. Harry Pulliam is Just as am
3us TO have ideal conditions as Mt.
hsOn. Two or three writer's of
Bburg and Philddelnhia have taken
cue from the Pittsburg fountains
have slurred the great game by
#tioning the honesty of the Amer
s league. The National league was
lat the post on two different occa-
when it went against opposition.
IL was the Pittsburg style of mud
kers who were responsible for their
3brious defeat. The American league
81 kept the game clean. In fact,
I'D the National league to a reali-
=Dn that the public wanted clean
mods as well as clean baseball
pes the average man look on all
6 is, in fact, every sort of contest,
Ia man is opposed to man. as UNI
Thy of strictly honest endeavoF?
4 few days ago. while enjoying a
s. to a beach resort, / was surprised
Ind a young Insurance agent dull
ne conditions Of a subject that he
zly professed to known something
t.
suppose" said he. addressing me.
IL when these ball teams meet in
Fan For rba u-prIdrc CpTipg they