The Washington times., 1908-12-02
Should Show Better Spirit
About Investigation Into
Ticket Scalping.
CANTILLON'S PLAN
LIKELY TO FAIL
Little Chance Washington Will
Train at Hickman, KY.
Comment.
By THOMAS s. RICE.


These be parlOus times for repudiat-
brs.
The latest to come 10 the front is
Chubby Charley Murphy, president
OF the Chicago National League team,
who is out with an indignant denial
that any Of the employees OF his club
had aught to do with the sale of world 5
series tickets TO scalpers. Yea. Mr.
Murphy wakes 50 wrathfuI that he ac-
tuaily sputteTs as he talks in type about
the aspersion on the fair name of the
management Of his club. Lies, air
liesr' crieth he. and he says that by
gosh he'll make somebody sufer for the
Aforesaid innuendoes.
Charles should calm himself. While
we Wsre not there. plenty OF ground
seems TO exist for suspecting that some
thing was wrong with the ticket end OF
the Chicago games and instead OF get
ting himself all het up ne would cut a
better figure by coming TO the front
with an ofer TO help the national COM
mission pTy fully into the charges. BY
assuming his lofty attitude of sticking
by his trusty henchmen through thick
and thin he makes a bad move for him
self and thems II they should prove 10
be innocent
Murphy in Bad Light.
Whoever slipped over that ticket
scalping deal turned a low down trick
on faithful baseball fans, as We have
said before, and Charles should be more
anxious u stand from under than TO
berate all those who have been in
position TO furnish evidence.
The National Commission is nov out
with a proposition to limit the price or
seats at the worlds series TO 81 for the
best seats in the stand. This is as il
should be. While the graudstand pat
ronage at all ball parks has been in
creasinE in recent years, IL Is the en-
thusiasm OF the bunch ia the 25-cent
and 50-cent seats which is the back
bone OF baseball support lAey are
noisy and demOustratiVe, and at times
overstep all reasonable bounds IN lhelf
roofing, but they are the ones who turn
out when a club is losing and can al
ways be COnned along with a pleasant
line OF talk. And, as We have SAID
before, when the team is going bad ana
making foolish e&hlpiuon OF llselL,
they are the ones 70 whom the owners
and managers appeal Tor attendance
and encouragement promising better
things To come. That being the case,
II is only. fair that these folk who are
the mainstays in the lean years should
have a chance 20 see their taVoFltes
contest for a worlds pennant at ldlF
prices.
That the Washington ball team Will
20 TO Hickman, KY, for its spring train
ing is not at all likely President Tom
Noyes and Secretary Treasurer Harry,
Rapley say they know nothing about
any proposed shift. and, while they are
not talking much. IL may be put down
as cinch bet that they do not thIui
much Of the proposition, even If Il die
save q few dollars. They know Calves
ton IS the best training place on tn,
map, and that the Washington team
was doing daily stunts there last yea
and the year before, when the New
York Giants, at Marlin Springs, and
the St Louis Cardinals, at Houston
fifty miles away. two other Texas
camps were going TO the barber shops
IN boats and the mOving-picture shows
in steam launches. Also, the Wash
iugtOn club is tied up with a cOntrac
10 90 TO Galveston again Likewise. all
this talk about the Washington bal
players using u as a stamping gTCunt
Is a fine advertisement tor Hickman, Ky
4 gent blew into our town a year ago
and made application for Joe Cantil-
Ions job as manager Of the Washing
ton club. He was Jean Havez who
writes things for Lew Dockstader. 4
confiding contemporary fell for Mr..
Havez, who promptly had his wages
raised. His story was that he was the
ideal manager for Washington. Upon