The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-10-19
ON THE SCREEN Of SPORT
BY Hugh S. Fullerton.

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LaiI would he lha YuIGL 1Gll'.'"snl 4"
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h1prfiIsI 'ssuits
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slno.'a io lip d."IH'r'l"n that N inI"nda
!" pIaY al tr,aa fer. 40 go the i"hlr
" "pn ~" hp cobalt 49, F'asih' service
lhan 4" ,n.Lo i,uilt" 81 bone IA" liz, ~
tho nwu"rs anh al"Uh hnidsIs ~ ~
clubs ~ n VIII 4" this ~" harnha u
ruhii" viii De- the rosl ami several n.n
whose unptotIup With tho game he's
pui hnna II any par,ioulsr credit. win
ba auiomali" discarded,
Msansas- nash rsAdiina.
immediately after tho disclosures
81 tho ChicaH" white HoN there was n
frantic rush ~ owners and officials 10
reform things and to oloan tho game
entirely. Then acme somo Ruddnn back
pHdHlinE and slowing up. Vsll"d In
alnun lions followed that there had
bonn too much haste. During tho Worlds
Series found among baseball mon a
pronounced and incrca sing Hsnt inrnt
for going slowly In reforms II was
whispNrcd that they had Rono too fast
and too far and that. perhaps. mistakes
had boon made Also II wah limited that
maybe after hll. tho ball players who
admitted themselves guilty OF do.
bauchinK tho nations sport. who had
sold their fttsndr. who had dobased
themselves for tho rotten money ,of
rottencr gamblers. could not be legally
oxpeIl<d from bAasbail. II wAa hintod
ruardedly that 1t would DO a had thing
10 ono or two OF them should bring suit
and charge organized baseball with
black listing them.
A terrible picture was drawn OF tho
effect such 4 suit would have upon tho
old suite out OF the Federal LOhGuo war
II Buck Weaver. for instance. should
sue and prove that he had been expelled
that tho club o~nors had agreed to
drive him out OF tho game. would II
not provo tho old charge that baseball
IL a just exercising power To deprive
mon Of their rights TO earning \ liVinEf
prove by that act. that what tho Balti-
more club owners charged was truer
club owners charged. was trueT
Better 20 slow until those suits wero
disposed OF. Better make no charge.
The argument reVorts back To tho
Same propagation. Keep Han Johnson.
uksvtie~I Of Public Opiaioa.
II wah amaAinG TO find a belief among
many baseball mon that tho public Will
forget tho scandal. The attendance up
ON and the mt huAlham aver tho tloNa-
land aaInsa was l,oinIsd Out ON proof
that tho Tans already arc forgetting Tho
faith Of the p0blic. they said, was not
shaken The public baiisvsA all the
oruoha arc caught and that tha uihnrs
arc caught and ahAt thooihsra arc tn
uoosot No zeal haTm done. after al
Thsy talked along jhat line They
probably balisva a. They said that tho
oia,nor aHslpat tho sia"htnR piaysrn VIII"
d,plaod military service dled out dulohly
ami that the public forgot II os soon ~
the Shaker msda a few base hits h"An
Ing that they would forget this case,
They do not balisve Ia tho force ot
public opinion. or olss they bsiieVo ths>
be s~ball fans do not caro-.
II NJ. thay argue. why make radical
phanE~R7
y I heard ono wager offered that two
dub owners who wrro named. would
bo bIddInk for tho services or buck
Weaver and Joe Jackson nsEt spring
| heard ono man Asaart that II would DO
possible to create public douaRp Tor
tho return OF JOo jackson To tho game.
In spite or tho low opinion these por-
sons hold for tho force or public opinion.
no ono nosd DO alarmed. No matsT what
tho loyal tr-nhnlOaltties may 10 ihpr"
IL no danger that any ono OF tho eight
oust cd from baseball evaT will have tho
nerve Ia faoa an American crowd Ia "a
baAsball game,
Ppiiass Srsss 90.
Tho National saaup AsaIns sincere In
Ito detsrininaA Ion To "isanHs the buni
a. ia Na1K1 Ian