The Washington times., 1910-05-23
Chance TO Break Into the
Best Baseball Society by
Winning Today.
TIME OF STARTING
DISCUSSED AGAIN
Faction Wanting 4:5O P. M. Max
ing Itself Felt-Status
Of Fight.
By THOMAS S. RICE.
Game today with St Louis. 4 p. m.

Game today with St Louis. p. m.
You see. it's thusi If Washington
wins this day a. D., It viii have a per
centage OF 400 which is an exalted
height that none but the dreamers Of
dreams would have expected two weeks
ago. There is something classy about
the 400. Remember last season at one
time when things We're breaking right
for a brief state, how we set our eyes
longingly on that exclusive inner circle,
and how once or twice in the past we
have entered the sacred portals Of good
baseball society, we have been unable
TO repress a slight attitude of snobbish-
ness toward the hoi pOuOi who were
using the tradesman's s entrance and eat
ing at the second table with 800 or less.
We admit 1t is not charitable and that
It smacks Of parvenuism to be super
cilious 70 folk Below you when you are
in the 400 but, honest, moving among
the best people that way kind o. swells
you up, and you must excuse us II we
initiate a little after a winning this at
ternoon.
If We don't win? Well, we never did
care to mix with those dudes in the. 400.
We belong to the common people.
Detroit comes here tomorrow for the
first of a series Of four games, which
need not alarm US particularly. Detroit
and Cleveland have ever found Wash
ington 10 be a hoOdoo town, and no
matter how well they We're doing else
where they could get their bumps In
the Capital. Wherefore, take heart and
90 forth to see the brutal exhibitions
johnson and Street for Washington To-
day; kinsella or Lake have the call for
St Louis, with stephens catching.
The old agitation about the best time
for starting games in Washington simp-
~ wis not down Nor is 1t easy to get
the proper line on the argument This
world IS afflicted with a class OF people
VINO imagine that everything which is
done contrary 10 their wishes is due
10 graft or a special desire 10 give them
the hook. These mental Lghtweights
are 10 be found in the ranks Of those
who want the games 70 begin at 4.5J,
ana OF those VINO wish the present 4
y. II. start retained. The sou crowd
being the outs are knocking the ms, one
OF lneIr charges being mat the early
start IS made ~ please Inc newspaper
writers ana a few OF the idle rich In.s
Chatter would be amusing II IL dld not
become JfesOnle. AS q matter OF fact,
the club for Tie past ten years mas Oeeu
IN a quanoary about what hour IL should
select. The IOur IN nearly all the OIuer
Big cities IS 5 or go D. m Here IL is
kept al IN the spring IN OTuer 10 all
low enough daylight Tor a long contest,
and later advanced TO 4.5l when the
change 10 tie later hour is MADE there
VIII arise the annual nOWl of those who
IND that il means cold supDers IOr them
and a too close interval between the
g
Lnat may he on hand Tor the evening.
1he 4.5J start Keeps many q tan away
IRON the park ana also enables many
a one TO see The game vino could NOT
get out for a 1 O'Clock game. The whole
question IS one OF the greatest good 10
Inc greatest NUMBER, and IL is q moral
certainty mat thar IS the only angie
from which il is considered by Inc club
owners, Tor the greater the number the
greater the receipts
Il seems a shame that just when you
get gong good ana win a lot OF games
you sci 50 high IN the percentage coli
Umn LnaL winning means only q IeW
points gain.
The status Of the Jedries-Jonnson
fight seems 10 De this. They VIII hght.
because OF the quarter Of 4 million dol
lars II viii mean % Jeu-Ies II me WINS
Or loses, but Js-tries Will NOT be able
70 90 long route and must win early
or not al al. ON that basis JeffrIes
chances Of getting the long end OF the
purse are not particularly bright Tor
he VIII have 10 pursue an opponent VINO
is light and shiIty on bis feet. is a great
defensive boxer and has the stamina 10
stand a hard pace a long time It's
d bad looking betting proposition from
any angle, Sud the appointment OF
Rickard as referee has not sweetened
The minds Of the honest followers of
boxing who want to see the game kept
clean. The point that mas been made
that Richard, having an interest in The
pictures, would not De likely to sfOp
the bout because Of a foul in the early
rounds, IS reasonable II Richard did
stop It Tor fouling, he would be charged
by another faction with having been
SO eager 10 demonstrate his own non
esty thar he Was too captiOus and criti-
cal IN MS enforcement OF the rules ANY
termination OF the tight EXCEPT bv an
Vndenlable crushing Knockout blow
would be open TO adverse comment win
packard IN the ring, and such comn7a1r
WI mean the death Of the game in call
ifornia, where croOkedness has aIraad,
noored II Tor the count of nine moro
than once Common sense should ca,1se
the other fight promoters in CaIfforDis
TO band together and force another raf-
cree .Ieffrlpe and TnE~e-r, ava