The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-26
EDITED BY WAGNER
.ynCn'S UeCiSsOTl
 Suspending Magee
National League President Acted
 For Best Interest of Game

Horace Foge1, president of the Phil adelphia club, seems to be spending the majority of his time in attacks upon President Lynch of the National League for the latters action in re- gard to the case of Sherwood Magee If Fogel really believes the things he says he is more to be pitied than cen sured. If he does not believe them and is merely saying them for effect he is showing small consideration for any property rights he may have in the Quakertown plant Baseball to- day, as far as the major leagues go, IS strictly a business enterprise and one of tremendous proportions. The public pays the dividends, and it is to public taste that the owners of the various franchises must cater if they wish to be financially successuful. e The time for rowdy ball is long since past. The majority of the fans to-day are of a higher grade than those of a past decade. It is no longer the 25 cent seats, but the 75 cent and $1.50 reservations that make a ball park profitable. Lovers of baseball go out to the big parks of today to see q baseball game. If they wish to wit ness prize fight or listen to repartee couched in billingsgate they seek oth- CT places than ball park. The um- pires are the best men available in their particular line, and their busi- ness Is to call the plays as they see them. If an arbitrator makes some fragrant mistake 1t is within the power of the offended club to carry the mat ter to the president of the league, or over his head to the board of direc- tors. This. can be done quietly after the game without entailing any dis graceful scene upon the playing field.
 If in a court of law judge makes a ruling which lawyer believes to be unjust the attorney neither swears at the man on the bench nor chambers up to punch him in the eye. He merely files an appeal in a higher horse has been nosed out coming un- der the wire should rush over and attempt to assault the judges, either verbally or otherwise, he would be ruled off every track in the. country. There is no reason why baseball games should be delayed by senseless kicking.
 If an umpire is occasionally wrong he probably evens up things in the long run. If he is consistently wrong he should be removed after an inves- tigation by the president of the league. In either case nothing Is gained by abusing the arbitrator at the time. In the American League the club OWn- CTS themselves will not tolerate any, thing of the sort, and the result is almost an entire absence of prolonged kicking.
 In the case of Magee it is hard to see how President Lynch could have followed any other course of action. Some of the Philadelphia papers, the day after the event, expressed the hope that Magee would never be al lowed to appear again in a Philadel- phia uniform. It is extremely unfer tunate that Magee happened to be star player on team which is fight ing for the pennant, but the result of his action would have been the same had his team been tailender. Magee jeopardized the chances of his club by a f1areup of temper which he undoubtedly regretted a moment later
 There were only three witnesses to the event who were in position to make their testimony of value. Lynch's decision was apparently based on the testimony of the only supposedly impartial one of the three. The president of the National League has repeatedly stated that. with him the good of the game is of more weight than the good of any indivdd- ual club. Every one who knows MT. Lynch believes that he is both an hon. est and a capable officer.