Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
BASE BALL IS ONE SPORT THAT
IS STRICTLY ON THE LEVEL
Umpire Billy Evans Writes Interestingly on
the Honesty Of the Ma
tional Game.

fore l could realize what had happened
the count was two strikes and no balls.
Then l began to feel afraid that l would
strike out. and this fear was a more seri-
Gus one than the original thought of
what a base hit meant to all concerned.
| could hear my fellow players accusing
me later on of purposely tanning. know
ing that / was to go to Detroit the next
day.
The next ball was high fast one on
the inside. 1 pulled away, fearing the
ball would hit me. In some Way-I never
knew howl hit a line drive to left cen
game. No base hit ever pleased me
more. 1 felt 1 could look every one
straight in the eye. Had / famed l
would have always thought Jennings and
Elberfeld believed l had done 50 pur-
posely. l surmised 1t might kill my
worlds series chances, but I didn't care;
l had done my duty.
That defeat played a leading part in
the pennant race that year, Detroit nos
ing out Cleveland half game by win
ming the final contest of the year. Tn
fortunately for Moriarty. the deal fell
through. and he didn't become a MEM
Der of the Tigers until the following
year. To. me Moriarty's single stands
out as a great tribute to the honesty of
base ball
Base Ball on the Level.
is strictly on the level. The wonderful
popularity of the national pastime must
be directly attributed to the honesty of
the game. Just as long as the sport is
kept clean Will it continue to thrive
There are in this world some people
who believe that everything is run pure
ly for gain. They believe that it is pos
sible so to manipulate affairs in base ball
that the receipts will be materially in
creased. Nine times out OF ten the peo-
pie who believe various enterprises are
just a bit crooked are not on the level
themselves. They judge others by their
own standard.
Any person at all familiar with the
uncertainty of base ball knows full well
that it is the exception to the rule for
team to win four straight games. Since
it does not happen very often during
the regular season, when tail-enders go
against champions the chance of such
happening in the worlds series is all
the more remote. Yet every year there
are lots of people, reputed to have brains,
who insist that the big games are Jug
gled to get the money. The worst luck l
could wish such people is that they UNI
pire in such series and pull couple
of bad decisions that make a difference
of some 81 800 in the shares of lot
of players. I'll wager they would think
base ball was on the square before the
game was over. if they managed to
weather the nine innings.
Recent Big Series Helped Game.
The recent worlds series did much to
boost the honesty of the game The win
ming of the series. in FIVE games by the
Athletics was directly contrary to the
dope of the supposed wise Ones who in
sist things are juggled for financial gain
In order to lessen. the chance of specula-
ton tickets are sold for three games in
each city to each person There are no
single game admissions to the reserved
seats. With the series standing three to
one in favor of the Athletics the ffkh
game was played in New York A lot Of
people with nothing except bone in their
heads were positive that New York would