The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-22
Slim CHANCE
After MAYOR
STATES VIEW.
He Won't Object If No One
Else Objects, Baseball
Pools Must Go Out.

William w. Conway, Mayor of Fair
mont, has declared in very certain
ard robust manner that the baseball
played in Faifnont this summer must
% p;asaa On i regulation diamond
with baseball players taking part, or
indiyidua.a who conduct themselves
after the fashion of basebai players
as nearly as possible. Mayor William
Conaway has the rule book and the
law with him and it looks as II he has
the jump on the baseball pools at the
present writing. One of the charac-
teristics. we are tod. of the present
Mayor is the fact tnat once he gets a
program ofsattack mapped out he car.
rfes II out or knows the reason why,
so the present sky line Tor the base.
ball operators has a well developed
tinge OF blackness.
THE operation of pools is in direct
violation oil the law and will not be
tolerated under my administration" is
the way the Mayor states the situa
ton. Rather direct statement, and
leaves no over abundance of loop holes
to crawl out The complexion OF the
law must be changed, the Mayor must
weaken In the stand he has taken-oT
the baseball pools will be among those
absent at roll call when the big league
seasons get under way.
Another thing that has come to the
attention OF the Mayor in advance OF
the baseball season Is the question OF
Sunday baseball for Fairmont. The
situation in regard to Sunday base
ball in Fairmont is much after the
fashion OF the well-known story about
the fellow who said, "if we had some
eggs we would have ham and eggs, If
We had some ham"
The law being agreed that Sunday
baseball is all right for Fairmont the
Mayor will possibly not object, II no
one else objects.
However, it is reasonably certain
that even If the law has no objections,
after the Mayors law chasers have
got the law In one place long enough
to read and interpret It, that some one
will offer objection and the complaint
will be sustained by the chief execu,
tive of the city. So Sunday baseball
for this city, despite the fact that a
great many people would enjoy good
ball game on Sunday without having
to go TO Monongah or Downs to sec
the game, is very, very uncertain
proposition. and unless the situation
clears rapidly II is not likely that team
managers can schedule games here
for Sunday with any assurance that
the contests will not have to be called
off.
On the Sunday baseball question
there Is much to be said on both sides.
Sunday baseball is being counte-
ranced now in many cities where
hitherto 1t has been on the blacklist,
but whether the majority of Fairmont
citizens are willing that 1t be played
here is still an open question. The
question as TO whether it is bad thing
for the people of the community to
watch a baseball game on Sunday and
within the law to indulge in almost
every other kind of recreation will ever
and anon come to the surface, but in
the long run II is question for the auf
thorities ofseyery community, who are
supposedly at least to keep tab on
the public pulse, to decide and so 1T
will be up to William Conway to set
tie the question this summer. But
reading between the lines of his state
ment onthe question we come to the
conclusion that inactivity will be the
big feature at the South Side diamond
on Sunday afternoons this summer.