The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
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 What .ar .a-.#-a~#, baseball laaraa.-s ..rm-G .a. greatest sport. lne ,,,ar of al .me" look place las, mon.. a.,a .. .Gaanrs~ of New Fua. 4aa .. H.ry Elephants of rAaaa. .uu4 ... Jag .oura-, ou the baseball ."m.m fH.s ,umba, was fr -a .uamH,lzan of America. If yoa wish -u h. --Hgs and precise H tae liz, If aau-44se. tHt i, ~as nr fla. championship of tue mi. eefs, # ,9 atv wiling ro lr large and gen rna- u saar diciou T. came as rh, climax ra a s. asau which =aa New Nors World .u,- fa, most interesting sga- IL ru, history of NariouaI L.aaa. .a-aaMl.~ and which rrcSid,a Joas-u. .t ,l. rival Am.r- .eau leaeu. .a.-- .ae l,sa year his organization ... -ser known i'm uudollz r9s 's-.na climax was preceded NE s.r4g-le lar -par~ ou fHr mr %, aat.as of thousands of would b, spectators. "Fr m every au, .oua H.a-e and hamlet in a#r~, rHrr4 S,a.s." -md rh, New Nora Ge,naa Sun ou The eye of .H. .aH,~ tm Mexico. South Am"r..a G.-aa t## Japan Ans .ralla cmma Alaska aud every ular. portion H -a gl he. letters and rahle I.-.ar.0,- have rom. pour .a= #a.a -.. Nauaaa Commission aud .a, New York aul Philadelphia has, a4a aI.U- asking demanding and mmofH- r-seuloa- ter ru. bal atr~ -aaa .. feaghr Enough checks m..t arIas- and drafts have a,,n ae.sa m Secretary Gray aIon, ta -,~. national bank It ~r,m- a- a abom .>or, unu uu- mau heHg .a. aorld desired to seo tae s,#,- aw beloved that he rf she a .a-. should D. taken care or aaa -E,n fU- 6oN directly r.atut rt. ar.,r"
 League Contest m the Past.
 Sn gea,- a9a. when rne first SIT .s- sa- uHsa a#ee .ae manage mrnr ar .na Eajanal Commission. between rhe aeuuaHt-amuers of th, TWO Isaer.~. sH- ,oasr-r Wa- between he san. rae elubs. uder The con sroI of ii. same MO managers Me Grav and Mack Tho total attend, ancc tin five @amesJ that year was "I.,2&. and The receipts were s6> .435. Since fh.l rhg attendance has been II lea~a doubled and the receipts more than rrobIed ont ot the seven ror'.-t- prior 'o this year. the Ma rional Lragua has 4.u line champiou- ship teHr r@e-. tas American League three times. The uichuames of the winning oah. may m be elegant. hW they are pictures sque The hon. ur~ have gone twice tu the Cubs. % once ro The Giants" and once 10 the "PiIareS." yr tl- National League: and onrc each so fHe "B-au-Earers. % m, ~Whire S.N" and rho White Elephants of he American League. II yoa ,au't idcurify the clubs by these niohuames whistle 10 the near est ueWsboy or call Hp the telephone girl and you can doubtless procure Tn" necessary information. If not, wrue To President Taft Nice-Presi- dent sherman. Governor Harmon CT Woodrow Wilson. They know. Every large newspaper has To keep baseball editor and the popHla. magazines vie with each other in procuring series of articles on the science the ethics. the economic sig. nificauce of the game. One author, Hulchius Elapeood. has been talking 10 the baseball field representatives ot various professions and getting their virgin impressions for use as copy The sculptor was enthusi. asJic over rhe physical beauty ap, parent iu rm and motion. but ne didn't like the uniforms. He wants the legs and backs 10 he bare SC he can see the play of the muscles The sociologist was interested in the crowd This game" he re marked. breaks down social dis tinctions and personal snobbishness Everybody is goad-natured and mar velously irrational Men become brothers on the spot; talk together as if they had known each other from infancy" The editor was criti- cal and captious. The Giants" were only "an artistic machine" the only really interesting" player among them being Mathewson. What the poet, the business man and the woman said are 10 he recorded later.
 Peculiar Baseball Ethics.
 Another magazine writer, Hugh $ Fullerton. hangs some observation: of his upon the peculiar ethics Cf th, game In the American Magazine ht tells us that baseball has tho strangest code of ethics of any gam, played by men. A hundred things that would be considered "mucker