The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-10-10
We Flock in
Thousands to That
Old Ball Game
Ne Sit uninterrupted In Our
Night 10 Free Speech and We
Like the Game for Its Hon
est Competition.

=. c.., '' here today, in of series
"a | of games decide the worlds
Ia -- championship for 10000
And here's hoping
Whether after the smoke of battle has cleared
strip of bunting of Tiger the
embrace of the Cub. let the better win and all glory to it
We into the battered and crippled with some OF
big out of the lineup but this OF the fortunes OF
and should wn the honor and greater the
6umph
The championship last year marked by
sportsmanke department part populace
players Let concerned conduit himself this series
according that standard be nothing this
pter in the history grand game which all of love and
I'VE loved since boyhood and girlhood.
So that the triumphant warriors will from the battlefield
nth victory merit their followers cheer
hem having stood the and by their efforts alone
Three cheers right for the Tigers champions OF the Amer
lean league again.
square Cubs
\ "A the competitor league
Let's root but let's play fair
of baseball will flock to Bennett park initial
clash today in thousands.
theater be amused the time
But he goes to ball game because he LOVES to CO.
And there gansaying the fact that OF the he
in full possession of his constitutional right to free speech
&hing that now days he is much denied
tells going church, be glad to
5<sar it whether he is OF
When the minister something that rub his fur the
~ he has sit there and accept it in silence
he doesn't like the play in the teater he can quietly inform
his tailor doesn't his suit time he the
or singy thousand could hear him
Nh a sense OF modesty forbids though.
his habrdaher fails those shirts in time he grum
Hes and walks of his
patience for fear
trust will get down on him and ne will freeze he oends the
groceries say anything
his laundry the driver it is his fault
nd tell. him to the boss and he hasn't time to do that
milk fails milk he gone before the
Of the house kick and the of the house isn't when
~ milk the morning.
nj on
brought and the ice tells him last winter and he
Ii the public official displeases him. do
him letter which doesn't beyond the public officials
He can vote against public it
He has stand it when the boss Jumps him at his work
What he wants long. for for mus. have and insists
10 . voice-anywhere just 80 he can be heard.
So his grandmother dies and he goes the ball game
And there he sits with the tailor for
losing all who had listen to his
Isshsr fhey vhoop 'er up and lick
Long bottled up nearly the
E.rnoon Mr. Man is HEARD.
4 He tells the umpire he is rotten"
Its great fun and such relief in this age Of policy
He calls offending local player mutt and butterfngers
when the home pitcher becomes ineffective against the foe this
Grafton and with eyes bullying from his head delivers the
nmand: take him out"
lot Of others at other times upon the head Of the
y And he 10 satisfied until the next game.
Another factor working for the continued popularity of baseball
- element of competition strictly guarded in particular
The rules Of the game are drawn so fine that is not the club
&n< those players first
That competition between the clubs racing for the
leagues times genuine
could be forciby demonstrated than the
between Cleveland ST. Louis between Detroit
Chicago the American league between Chicago New
M National league
said favored Cleveland pennant
club the of sending Clevelands
rnering.
psnnan Detroit grounds before
cxurvd which packed the park
Chicago turns bigger crowds ball than Detroit
home satisfied would undoubtedly have been
rved by Chicago victory in that deciding game.
But Detroit
York the the National league 10000
that teams admirers \
Nothing further need be offered in proof that the game
HE competition real until the last I
<h liant herea in it for governmental
issue in this campaign which vitality
in the business and industrial leagues1 ~
How do you feel about criminal trusts which stae competition
On II aide are "a TO lie issue3