El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-14
On The Screen Of Sport
n. By HIGH S. FULLERTON. m

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NEW YORK, after a Is year strug-
~ gle, has inaugurated Sunday base
BAH with the result that all attend
iance records for one day IN Greater
New York were shattered. more than
10000 persons attending the games at
the Polo grounds and Ebbets field.
! The Polo grounds crowd was an
nounced officially as more than $4,000
and that at Ebbets field at more than
$4,000 before the official count was in
and judging from comparison with
known attendance at worlds series
games, the figures at the Polo grounds
are conservative.
Perfect Order Kept.
The tremendous crowd at the Polo
grounds preserved perfect order in
spite or the defeat OF the home team
+ a score OF close decisions and exciting
situations and kicking on the umpires
i was the best natured. the happiest
and the fairest crowd I ever saw at
a Polo grounds game.
There was not a policeman on the
grounds excepting those off duty and
the grounds police, yet not the slight
est disorder or disturbance. At mid
night the Sunday Of the initial game
asked police headquarters TO ten me
whether any result OF the games was
70 be observed from their report
sheets from all districts OF Greater
New York and the reply was that
they noticed a considerable falling of
in arrests, in disorders and in drunk
enness-
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The result speaks for itself
I have Just had an unexpected and
and still am blushing. A couple Of
months ago discovered. through ac-
cldent- that congress in Its luxury tax
middle had soaked a tax OF 10 percent
upon all athletic goods I thought il
must be a mistake but upon inquiring
found that it included athletic goods
and equipment OF all kinds. and there
upon 7 emitted a loud and raucous
roar because happened 10 know that
20 per cent OF all the athletic goods
manufactured in the United States
was bought by kids under IS years
Of age The tax hit the cheap base
balls. mitts. gloves and such stuff, the
uniforms and everything else a kid
uses in baseball. football. basket bah,
tennis and all his other games
knew that prices already were
sky high and that my own Kid
was yelpinE that his team couldn't
afford uniforms this year and
would dfsband because the price
OF 10 uniforms was $50 increased
from SIS, and with 10 percent
added II meant $3.50 dollar and
n quarter league balls were up to
Sl.G5 and everything else in pro-
portion.
I not only emitted a yeIp but wrote 4
20 a bunch of sporting writer's and I
asked them to join the chorus Did \
they join2 They did They yelped
for columns and cartoons in the name I
o. the kid I wondered why the man
1facturers didn't yell. I wrote some
Of them and asked and found out
They were almost all engaged in big
contracts for the army and navy
Uncle sam was their best customer.
The kids could wait. Their stuff was
cheap stuff anyhow and not much
profit IN It. So I yelped some more
and some OF the good fellows in the
sporting goods line got busy. They
circulated a petition asking congress
10 repeal the tax or the kids and give
he next generation a chance to de-
relop athletics.
Goes TO Washington.
Now the sporting goods manufac-
urers have petition with more than