Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-01
CLEAR S7ia5 9R
DANISH THEM. IS
WR|TER'S ADVICE
T fullerton Says It Is an Insult
10 Fans to Bring Them Back
to Game Without Exonera-
ton
Hugh :. FulIcrton.)

While haSebIll IS huSy rtnONuting
f,sal, md ,,ri,.ir. with oood iutnutI
- -,
10 i'S'o'V ''NT'' !" ''' "57''
from winch II lelh the o"heTS-or
some of thcnl---appear 10 be over
looking the fact that the fans are in
,or.s,al l., n.,.i,s tho ,Iconirg nro-
's.',lu " ,',, -, 1900.
cess t"o'o"AI' SUM u" iieiH "'P'"'
intent upon bringing pack INTO inc
game players who have been branded
mot hv the scribes. but by the owners
and managers themsplveSl as unfit
and evnecting m, fans TO applaud
thnse players
Hal Chase who was accused of yari-
o,ls things by the Cincinnati club and
tbrown OFF the Team. is reported To
lac, coming hack. Fred ToueN accused
of serious crimes convicted of one. ac-
united ON two charges of draft dodg-
ing. was brought back and perhaps
will he again. Joe Jackson. Byrd
Ivun and Lefty Williams ordered off
the White SoN mark and charged with
going ia shipvards and other rlaces to
avoid fighting. arc. seemingly TO be
welcomed huri
do not Know that Chase was
guilty of the things charged AGAINST
him, or that jackson. Williams or
LINN or the others were guilty They
were openly accused by owners and
managers, 1t seems to me only two
courses are opcn-either to prove the
charges and forever KICK them out OF
baseball, or prove them innocent and
welcome them pack 10 hrlng them
back IN theIf present status ana WIN
our eNplalhIhs Is an Insult l" the iaHS'
a
10 the otheF P.aEers' .....
me '4seS OF '.'eSI '''.H anu SUM
others VINO VINO went 10 L'T "'l'S"lua '""
steei nuns W. VIVA q" a. 49,,
50 lluci 80 M III 'l'' ~ ~ ",'u ~"
.t'p, -, ,,,,',,ar u, .l,'1,,rs rba
80, of th', soldi,rs foII ,nn,, i,any
uiaWars bacauso Of thc nr,s Of or the
charges AGAINST q faw So bitter Wa.
snlaierg' naneI, refused ia pr.nt a
word about uIavers or the game. and
Tho Commute ON nuhItc Information
(the foreign bureau ordered all
baseball news and gossip excluded
from the bulletins.
The boys over there could not get
the news and had no way of telling
which players were seeking bullet
proof jobs and which were not They
knew that few of them were in
France In fact, so we'll Informed a
man as captain Nisknisklti, editor of
Stars and Stripes, declared as late as
November that Hank Gowdy and
Eddie Grant were the only two ma
jor league players in the army, by
that time, we knew, the players had
made good ana were sending big
percentage of each team into service
When the soldiers in Frapce learned
that dozens Of the players were among
them the bitterness faded away, and
yei ! was informed by an eX-ball play
er who returned with the BlackhaWk
division that the majority of the men
in his regiment still had the idea that
h was the only player from the big
leagues who came over
Lieut.. oscar Peterson OF the tMCa-
go fire department was killed fight
ing fire the other day, and in MS
death is lost one of the greatest base
bah fans that ever won rcnown. lGner
Anderson, who used to he "A bah player
years ago and later was a battalion
chief in the fire apartment and VINO
died in harness, and Fire Chief jim
Koran. who also was an eX-ball play
er, were great fans hut they conced-
eded the honors to Peterson. An Ter
son used 10 tell the yarn:
my first promotion he said, was
to lieutenant over on the west side,
The engine house WASH far from the
ball park, and Peterson was TIE worst
crank in the house. one afternoon
there was an alarm of fire in big
L. Coo.
the outfield Of the ball field. The build
ing was four stories high and filled
with foreigners When we got 10 the
place the building was filled with
smoke and the fire was shooting up
the stairways from the second to the
third floor, and on up. Some one yelled