The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-10
NJ TIP WRIGHT

~ TIP WRIGHT
l see the National league base
ball scandal has bobbea up again
despite the efforts of the moguls
to keep 1t down.
+ These wise guys of base ball
should have known better. 1t was
a dead open-and-shut that their
efforts to whitewash the crooked
ness would result in the newspa-
pers making herculean efforts to
learn the truth. Now they appre-
ciate it.
DR.. Cramer Cor Creamery as the
case may be, physician to the
Giants, is said to be the man who
offered $500 to the umpires to
throw games to his patients.
John T. Brush, owner (ostensi-
bly, of the New York team, but
really mouthpiece for Andy Freed
man, declares he has nothing to
say about the report that Cramer
attempted to bride the umpires.
I'd like to ask WHY Mr.. j. I,
Brush has nothing to say?
1t strikes me the people who
hand over their four bits to see the
Giants perform are entitled to
know WHY he has nothing to say
The National league has a right
to know WHY he has nothing to
say.
This attitude of Brush compels
suspicion. 1t makes me think he
has nothing to say because he
fears that by opening his mouth
he may put his foot into it.
I'd like to ask Mr.. Brush this
question, publicly:
Have you nothing to say be-
cause you KNOW who CrameI
and are you trying to
protect the man higher up when
you refuse to discuss the scan
DALI"
1t is conceded Cramer is the
goat. In the words of some citi-
zens, he is the "fall guy" for the
men whose money he handled in
the now celebrated episode.
AND SHOULD THIS BE PER
MITTED?
No one can be even reasonably
certain that any game played in
the National league is on the
level-least of all the games In
which the Giants participate, as
long as Brush maintains his II
have nothing to say" attitude.
The strength of base ball lies in
it's honesty. This is now assault
ed, and assaulted strongly. Moth
ing but an open investigation will
clarity the situation and satisfy
the public.
And the public is to be satisfied
The public's cash makes the game
possible. If this policy of covering
up is permitted, 1t will not be long
before Mr.. General Public will
pass up base ball as he has fake
foot races and other professional
sports, by which time the thick
headed, money-mad magnates will
come out of their trance and ap-
preciate that honesty Is the best
policy" even if the phrase is worn
threadbare.
Gambling at ball games is the
national pastime's greatest dam
ger.
l am glad to see the efforts,
slight though they be, of Presi-
dents Pulliam and Johnson of the
National and American leagues
respectively, to put stop to bet
ting at the games.
thu uorinIrc n1IIh humans oil
over the country would insist up
on enforcing an anti-betting order,
there would be less talk of crook
ed games.
Signs posted in grand stand and
bleachers that betting will not be
will not stop gambling.
Most men don't believe in signs
anyway. Drastic action is neces-
sary to put stop to this evil.
If the magnates want to stop
gambling, let them hire plain
clothes men and scatter them
through the crowd, with orders to
throw out every man who offers to
make bet on the result of the
game. When he finds himself in
the street, the subject of jeers
from grand stand or bleachers
full of people. the gambler will do
one of two things-quit betting or
stay away from the game, and
either will be satisfactory.
The men who make the greatest
noise about this and that man
breaking training, or throwing the
game are the ones who recklessly
wager dollar upon the outcome,
and lose.
Come on, Mr.. Magnate, wake up
and head off this evil. There has