The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-26
Celluloid in Auto Curtains.
Waltz G. Co. Put Them In.
On the Screen
=. of Sport =.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON

Tom Scaton md Casey Smith probably
will hccomr toe center Of the greatest
fight baseball has known since the time
Huihurt took u sweeping stand and
cleaned baseball.
The Liltl" Rock club led by Kid FL
bcrfJld. insists upon playing these two
men who were dropped by san Fran
cisco. and the other clubs Of the South
crn Association refuse TO play while the
veteran pitcher and his partners are with
Little Rock. Atlanta locked the gates
and refused TO permit the Little Rock
club to enter the park. and the umpires.
evidently under instructions. refused to
call the game forfeited. Now little Rock
insists upon dragging The case into
court. and If the club fails to do ~, the
players threaten 10 sue organized base
bali claiming they were hlackliStcd
The Pacific Coast League has gone
further and faster IN trying TO preserve
The cleanliness of baseball than the
other leagues Yet have dared TO do. II
Francisco and Los Angeles especially.
and in Salt Lake City wcr" bad, and
that tho gamblers were growing NOR"
and moro powerful Instead of pussy
footing around. as the American and
National Leagues have done for years.
and trying To whitCwaSh every scandal.
tho Coast Lcagu1rs cleaned house.
The San Francisco club fired Smith
and Sratou for the god of baseball.
They made no charges against them.
but the word was sent through the base
ball world that Scaton and Smith were
undesirable. That the two players were
associated with some of the gamblers
was charged. hut there was no direct
accusation Of dishonesty.
The Little Rock club added the play
crs to their roster. and when the other
clubs Of IN" Southern League learned
the facts of the San Francisco Situa-
ton. they refused to play against
Cicarly.x il the man arc innocent Of
wrong doing, they have IN" best kind
Of n case against the other clubs Of ;he
Southern. If they are guilty. the clubs
have nothing To fear. The decision in
the case % Lee MaEec shows that the
courts will uphold the right OF club,to
keep the game clean.
Biz Geagues Pussyfoot.
! For five years [ have been harning
away on tn" danger To organized base
ball from the growing strength OF inc
gamblers My Eyes wore opened To the
danger n long time ago by one player
who. while ranring rs on" OF tn" great
est in tho business. got away with the
rawcst kind Of stun. II" told me. un-
der pledge Of secrecy. som" OF the most
startling yarns ! ever heard. and he
confessed his part in them. He told me
this lust after II" retired from baseball,
told il boaStfully and gay" us all the
laugh because we never suspected him.
| knew that some Of tho things he
told were truC--thc rest | figured were
false. but he walked mo up.
Within tn" nest Year I was certain
that the gamblers were entirely too init
mate with some ball players. During
the Federal Lcagu" period the evil grew
worse. | do not know how many play
crs were Implicated. but imagine there
were not more than, six or seven, al
though on" gambler h"aStcd 10 me that
there w"r" many more.
| wrote again and again. warning.
notifying the club owners that the game
was inSld" the danger zone. and they