Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-26
BASE BAIL POLITICS
Of LITTLE INTEREST
What the e''FanS" Want Is
News and Gossip of
the Players.

Special Correspondence Of The star.
NEW YORK. December 25. 1909.
Prize puzzle Question-What sense is
there in base ball politics?
Puzzle question No. WHO cares a
nickers worth OF chitlin's for base ball
politics?
A near-Turk cigarette that has not been
rained on more than three or four times
will be given the first solver OF the above
riddles.
Addres. all answers to the King of
Denmark.
Nobody, however, one beiieves-one
sure does-win be bothering that easy
monarch with answers.
The reason is simple. Nobody cares
enough about base ball politics to take
the trouble to put how little he cares
down in black and white.
Everybody as is anybody cares a great
deal for base ball.
But base ball politics OF the kind we've
been having ad nauseam (Which means
more than too suff1ciency) in this town
lately-base bail politics IL or are just
Tolstoi; and If that metaphor doesn't
convey shuddering idea of hopeless,
deep, dark and hideous dullness. then I'll
get out a search warrant for something
with still more yawns In 1t.
American folks get all the politics they
want or can handle In their business
without trying to get head or tail Of base
ball politics, even If ii were in the least
worth while to find out the whyness and
whenceness of base ball politics, which
it distinctly and decidedly IS NOT.
There are multitudinous symptoms now
easily discernible all over the United
States that regular politics-the kind you
have always used-don't interest people
ANYTHING like much q thew used TO
That being the case. where do or does
base ball politics nudge i'll to fill any
long-felt want?
For example. who except the parties
cares q somewhat passe carrot whether
Johnnie Ward or Johnnie Heydler or
Dorsey Fultz or Jim Hickey or Carrie
Nation or Butch the Bite becomes presi-
dent OF the National League?
Reply: They hain't nobody.
Who cares how many secret sessions"
the 'maggots' OF the base ball business
have on such a. subject? What's the diff
recriminate and bawl around when they're
trying to make up their minds on the
thing: or how often they fall to ''openin'
wine" or things while they're consider
ing the topic?
Same answer as above.
VARY wear1some, improbable. duli-as-
dfshwater stuff. base ball politics.
The real base ball world felt heap
cheerfuler and better worth living in
when all this fuss and Illustration and
fanfarronade Of the base ball heap
muches of the National League was all
over last week.
Honest. didn't you get mighty sick Of
reading about c. Murphy and ilis fancy
weskits and his snorts of defiance?
! Didn't you sort O. pale with WEAKNESS
in reading all of that fiun about the nose
tapping. deep and mysterious John Brush
Of the Joints?
| Didn't 1t kind o. annex your nanny to
read all of the piflerino about Garry
| wigwaggings and threats and hurlings of
| Ajaxian thunder and all like that?
! Because there were lot Of people over
! here who felt like moving over to Rah-
! way, Moo Choisey, until 1t was all over
! 1t makes quite lot of difference
whether this or that worthwhile ball
player is going to be on the job again
next year with the old team or with an
other one.
It's interesting to know about if soma
rule that has tendency to really change
| some feature OF the game is uncork ei
and spread on the record
] It's interesting to know how the sched-
ule is going to look when it is made IN.
All hands among the fans want to
know who's going to be the manager
| next year of this or that club.
| But this stuff isn't base ball politics.
/ It's base ball news.
| The base ball politics thing has the
most confirmed, indurated habit OF slop-
ping over and becoming drearfsome Of
| anything I know OF.
mie this or jake That DOES shake his
pudgy finger in Joey What or Johnnie
Which's face and tell him that s'long as
| he's c'nnected with the game he's going
1 to, etc. etc?
1 And does il repale or rsfre.b or mfr,