Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-10
WALLPAPERS CASH CHECKS?
Big League Presidents Think They
Will Not Do It.
HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE MEN
President Lynch Says the stars Rea-
IiHe that Their Good Salaries for
SIX Months Depend on Keeping
Base Rail- Wen Organised.
HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE MEN

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Base Rail- Wen Organised.
! Presidents Of the big leagues say that
| the checks advanced to the PLAYERS who
| expected to play in the post-season all
| star series will be returned by the players
and that no trouble is anticipated. Both
Lynch of the National and johnson OF the
American are confident the all-star series
candidates will not act on technicality
i am taking no stock in all this talk
/ or the players who were given checks in
advance to play in the all-star games talk
ing advantage Of any technicality and
cashing these drafts on the date when the
series was TO begin" said President lynch.
There isn't a ball player connected with
either Of the big leagues-or with the
minor leagues for that matter-who doesn't
realize that the very life Of the game-the
income he receives six months in the year
through his skill on the acknowledgements
upon his individual efforts to keen the
sport clean from all suspicion of unfair
! dealing or orookedness. Consequently any
effort to place a player In the posintion of
doing dishonest or unworthy act is GER
tain to meet with failure, for your ball
PLAYER of today isn't built along those lines.
1 have been interested in base ball for
nearly thirty years. In that time I have
come in contact with thousands Of players,
some Of whom were hard to handle, while
others were tractible in every sense Of the
word; but of all those thousands Of men
with whom I had personal dealings not
one ever gave me reason to believe that he
wasn't on the level-that he was not al
ways thinking OF the high standard Of the
md AnNw
casting any reflection upon the sport that
might be construed into anything dishon-
est or not strictly on the level
Admiration for BacLers.
I have the greatest admiration for the
Cincinnati men who were willing to risk
small fortune in trying to bring off this
series. OF course we must acknowledge
that they were ill-advised when the pro-
jected this series of games. At the same
time they acted like true sportsmen in
every phase of the enterprise. They were
liberal in their terms with the players;
they went after none but the best men for
their teams, and when the National COM
mission and the club owners decided that
the games could not be played under the
rules OF organized base ball they grace
tully and unprotestingly accepted the de-
cree OF the base ball officials, said nothing
about their losses. actual and prospective.
and promptly called off the games
Nor can the players who were signed
to Play in these games afford to be less
sportsmanlike. 1 note with pleasure that
several of the men have already returned
their checks, and there is no doubt in
my mind that the others will do SO in
due time-long before the date set for
the assembling of the teams in Cincin-
natl for the beginning of the series. They
can do no less, and 1 am certain that
they all feel that way about 1t. ; Do you
suppose for an instant that any ball
player, whose name has stood for every
thing that is honorable and good and
high sclass in base ball, would run the risk
Of being pointed out by thousands Of
spectators at every game-spectators
made of the highest type of men, women
and children in Amerioa-as the man who
held out on a check TO which he was not
entitled; in other words, who had WEIGHED
on a sporting proposition by failing to
make good under all the laws that govern
fair and square sport? Would he take
the chance of being singled out as the
man who couldn't be trusted who, through
taking advantage OF the slimmest kind OF
a technically in a financial transaction
might be expected to draw an equally thin
line in the matter of right and wrong per-
formances on the fold? Not for a moment
II don't believe that there is a player
In the business who would jeapardize his
high standing with the public and the
clean record of the game itself by work
ers who were signed to go on the ALL
star tour are being urged to do. And
feel certain that before the worlds series
Is over every check that was sent out by
the Cincinnati hackers Of the all-star tour
will have been returned TO them"
CHICAGO, Oct. 9.-Edward D. Shurtleff
senatorial investigating committee yester-
day.
President johnson OF the American league
was equally emphatic in his declarations
of confidence in ball players in general
and in the men who had signed to go on
the all-star tour in particular
II am certain that every player who
signed to go on this tour and who received
his check for his services in advance, will
be as straightforward and sportsmsnlike
as Livingston and wnbern were in the
matter Of observing and obeying the rules
of organized base ball, declared Mr.
johnson. Neither Of these men hesitated
in calling off the tour and accepting their
loss gracefully as soon as they were in
formed that II would not be possible TO
stretch the articles Of the national agree
ment to fit the enterprise they had pro-
posed. And it is not to be expected that
ball players whose salaries are main
tanned and whose future as players 10 as
sured by this same national agreement, can
or would do less than these men, who are
outside the pale Of organized base ball,
have done"
You are not experimenting on yourself
when you take ChRmberlain's Cough Rem
edy for cold as that preparation has won
its great reputation and extensive sale by
It's remarkable cures of colds, and can al
ways be depended upon. 1t is equally valu-
able for adults and children and may be
given to young children with implicit con-
fidence as it contains no harmful drug.
! Sold by all druggists.
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No Score Game at McCOOk.
/ MCOOK, Neb., oct. S.-The foot ball
squads OF the McCook and oxford high
! schools played a no score game in this
/ city this afternoon. IL WAS clean ball he