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New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

young American who drifts into the
army.
Not all Of them are Christy
Mathewsons with their characters
fully developed. The majority of
them are impressionable. They are
thrown with a sporting element. !
don't mean that the sporting ele-
ment is so entirely unhealthy, but
they meet gamblers and various
characters who live on easy money.
A baseball player is coddled and
petted one day and derided the next.
That makes him cynical. He has
no regard for the controlling body
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
From The Indianapolis News

money changing to see what It
should have seen.
When baseball has a real govern
ing board made up Of men who will
command respect of the younger
players and the older players, too,
men who will work to solidify the
illusions that have been thrown
around the national game, then faith
in the game will begin 70 come back.
The honor of Christy Mathewsou
and the stanch honesty Of Christy
Mathewson will stand out again as
the spirit Of baseball instead Of the
pitiful crookedness Of Cicotte and
jackson.
But if the magnates in baseball do
not realize that baseball must have
some real reforms and the immedi-
ate scrapping Of the old regime, then
baseball will be very slow to recover
from this blew
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
What's To Be Done?

Following the shock of the reve-
lations that baseball has been
reached" in places, and in high
places, by the gamblers, the first de-
mand is how and why. The second
demand is:
"What is to be done about it,"
Without being too cynical, it is not
50 surprising that the gamblers
finally got" to baseball. These
parasites have been watching the
Development of the game with hun
CRY eyes for q long, long time. The
little bettors have not been plunging
on baseball games as they sometimes
do on horseraces, but the aggregate
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

They thought their game was per-
feet, and it will not be easy to re-
store their shattered faith.
A commission Of this sort might
succeed. Some say that very prac-
,ical men are needed and that the
scheme is too idealistic. Baseball,
needs some idealistic schemes. It
was lack of ideals that led to the
downfall of the game. The men who
we're blind to the developments that
brought about this scandal were all
too practical. They made baseball
pay, but they did not see that it was
being stabbed.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Can the Fans Faith in Baseball Be Restored!
The Fault for the Present Scandal
Lies With the Leaders,
Says Mcclellan
tables were asked for. The Tribune
has refused to publish them.

tables were asked for. The Tribune
has refused to publish them.
Outside the Grounds
Then there is the actual betting
on the games. 1t must be admitted
that the officials at the Polo Grounds
keep the handbook men out of the
Polo Grounds. But they operate
somewhere in New York, as they do
in every big league city. Baseball
betting is what the professional
gambler would call "piker" betting.
The professional gambler pretends
to scorn "piker" money, but it is the
"piker" money that keeps the big
gambler going
There was the eternal master
mind" behind the fixing of the Chi
cago worlds series. Abe Attell, the
eX-pugilist, the mere steerer, did not
work that scheme out by himself.
He did not have the money to
operate it and he did not have the
cunning to get away with it. The
men behind the plot have not yet
been found. Abe Attell, the fixer,
committed a capital offense for a
tixer. He got caught.
Just how much money changed
hands on that worlds series and
how much of it came to the fixing
ring is hard to estimate. It is
probable that the corruption syndi-
cate cleaned up something like half
million dollars. Perhaps they got
more through their various branches.
They had figured on a payment Of
100000 for corrupting the Chicago
White Sox, or enough players on the
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
By w. Q. Mcclellan

"~ HE tradition that baseball is
the only clean professional
sport has been shattered.
The grand jury at Chicago
has shown that a worlds series has
been manipulated by a ring of pro-
fessional gamblers about as brazenly
and as crudely as the notorious May
bray gang operated with footraces,
wrestling matches and prizefghts.
Some popular idols Of the diamond
have been thrown from their pedes-
tails. Heroes 4 the Chicago small
boys and the small boys of other
cities have been revealed as petty
crooks. The scandal has brought
about spirit of pessimism and sus-
ricion that is more widely spread
than might be thought. People
wonder il anything is on the level" :"
Is one fan put it.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Begin by Tearing Down

In the first place there must be
some tearing down. 1t is obvious
that the controlling body under
which this mass Of corruption devel-
oped was incompetent and blind and
lacking in all human understanding.
The blatant National Commission,
'sfull Of sound and fury, signifying
nothing" at times and at other times
rowing in star chamber sessions over
matters concerning the box office,
n.nst have no further voics In the
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

been thrown out on those charges
at the time. If they had been
young players Of no particular
ability or veterans who had reached
the slipping stage they would have
been cast into the discard, and the
magnatey would have looked very
virtuous about it. But they were
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

small bets on baseball make a total
that made the big gamblers mouths
water.
starting with the baseball pools,
the betting on the number Of week
~ runs scored by each club during
The season, there is quite a bit of
small money bet. These pools are
encouraged in a passive way by
newspapers that publish for the ac-
commodation Of the handlers Of
these pools the tables showing the
humber Of runs scored weekly by
each club. While this might be
classed as news" The Tribune de-
eided that 1t was for the purpose of
aostsring the betting that these
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

was incompetent in this crisis.
The plan formulated by four Of
the club owners is the appointment
of a controlling body for all base
ball that will supersede the National
Commission and have jurisdiction
over all baseball. The new commits
sion is to be made up with men in
no way associated with organized
baseball as it exists to-day. They
are to have no financial interest in
any club or league and to have no
connection with the complicated poll
tics Of the baseball control that is
m 90
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

Of baseball. He gets the idea that
the game is all for the box Office,
and the greed of some of the mag
mates makes him greedy. He has
seen decisions by the National Com
mission that were solely in the in
terest Of the box Office.
Probably the factor that made
those Chicago players decide upon
taking the bribes left under their
pillows was the hypocrisy Of the
magnates in the matter Of Hal Chase
and Lee Magee. Those two players
were caught throwing ball games by
Christy Mathewson, who was at the
time manager of the Cincinnati club.
When the charges were heard by the
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

National League officials Mathewson
was in France. The Giants wanted
Hal Chase for first baseman. Ma
gee was wanted by somebody else.
We're Drawing Cards
charge that if Chase and Magee
had not been considered competent
baseball players they would have
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
T " e STOOD there as one fasci-
I mated. The object of his
gaze was only the fiapjack-

b
gaze was only the hapjack-
maker in the expansive window
front Of a popular restaurant, yet
he could have been no more fasci-
mated were he held by the eyes of a
sorcerer. Minute after minute he
stood there, rooted to the spot, all his
soul seeming to go out toward the
lowly flapjack being prepared for
hungry Columbus. Circle.
Young Mr.. Manhattanite, who had
rushed from the depressing environs
of his furnished room to fill his
blue vaculty with the cheer of a
Broadway show, noted the f1apjack-
entranced stranger and stopped. He
looked interestedly upon his ragged
clothing, his openwork shoes, upon
the fierce red, untrimmed beard and
the great gray eyes-eyes of Won
drous intensity-eyes that one might
imagine had looked upon fanciful
worlds and yet were filled COM
pletely with the vision Of flapjack.
There was only one condition that
the sight suggested. Young Mr.
Manhattanite's hand went down into
his trousers pockets and fingered
coins. But it stopped there.
Touched, but Uncertain
"Come," he meditated, "you are
touched. You are anxious to relieve
his hunger. But are you the only
one in this, multitude? Are you the
only one who is soft, who can be
moved by SO appealing a sight?
Wait and see"
He walked ahead a few PAGES and
took up a propitious vantage point.
Mr.. Flapjack-tosser continued the
practice Of his useful art; Mr.. Vaga-
bond gave him all the attention that
an ambitious prima donna might
dream of receiving from an all-wor-
Shipping audience. Minutes passed
by, so did the throngs, and for fiji
teen minutes the man in front of the
window had not budged an inch, even
to transfer the burden Of his body
by shifting his feet.
A few passersby stopped, scruti-
nized the strange figure and passed
on. A man and woman paused, de-
bated the question pro and con, stood
watching him in silence for several
minutes, then resumed their walk
Mr.. Manhattanite imagined them in
dulging in self-pity; bemoaning the
weakness, the inertia, the city-bred
covertness that kept them from ex-
ercising the generous impulse that
the sight had stirred within them.
At least eight persons finally
stopped at various points on the
sidewalk, gazing with as much fasci-
nation upon the vagabond as he ex-
pended upon the flapjacks. There
were eight mental struggles going
on; eight efforts to shake off the
hide-bound Indifference, the habit
Of mistrustfulness, that marked then
as dwellers in the City Of Suspicion
Finally one Of the eight broke
through his shell. He moved toward
the vagabond, stopped, retracet
his steps, moved forward again; NJ
performance Of Shakespeare's trag
edy Of irresolution ever affected Mr.
Manhattanite more poignantly thar
this struggle to fight off the invisible
circumscribing barriers Of self.
Generosity Triumphant
It would have ended in irresolu
ton, but the young Hamlet observe'
himself being watched by the irres
olute seven, and as q public hgur
felt impelled to provide a happ.
ending for til show. He reached
the vagabon1 extended a coin
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

team to assure the throwing Of the
series. When professional gamblers
are ready to invest that much money
they expect a tenfold return.
The Ballplayer Crop
Let us try to look into the condi-
tions that made these pitiful pawns
of baseball players SO vulnerable
and such easy prey to the gamblers.
The big league baseball player
comes from anywhere. He is just
an average young American. Some
times he comes from college,
sometimes from a farm and some
times just from the back lots. His
mentality is no higher and no lower
than the aggregatcementality of the
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Is Not Respected

But the National Commission
commands no respect. 1t could get
no cooperation. 1t has shown itself
incompetent and too much absorbed
in its own petty politics and its
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

pretty tradition that baseball never
could be corrupted was destroyed.
That, roughly, is how it happened.
The people who believed in baseball
are certain that it can be rehab.li-
lated and that in time the tradition
cf baseball's absolute integrity can
be reestablished.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
A New Head Needed

There must be new ruling body
in baseball, and quickly. Four club
owners decided that Immediately
after the grand jury at Chicago
made its first revelations. John
Heydler, president of the National
League and a member Of the Ma
tional Commission, frankly admitted
that the ruling power in baseball
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
The Only Hope

SO far this seems to be the only
hope for a quick restoration Of con-
fidence in baseball. Some Of the
magnates do not realize what
shock the revelations at Chicago
gave the followers Of baseball.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

Commission saw nothing DuC tne
seasons receipts. They heard moth
ing but the click Of the turnstiles.
Greed and Hypocrisy
Once in a while one member would
speak grandiloquently about base
ball as a factor in the Developments
of character How could cE..cacter
be developed under the National
Commission? There have been some
wonderful men among the players;
there are fine men among the play
ers to-day, but not because Of the
influence Of the National Commis-
sion. 1t was greed and the hypoc-
risy at the top of baseball that in
spired the greed and hypocrisy at
the bottom and finally led to plain
larceny.
The fault was in the leaders. The
leaders of baseball players are just
as responsible for the morale of
the men as are commissioned officers
in the army. But the leaders Of base
bali have been without the slightest
sense of their responsibilities. Of
course, there might be crooks among
the baseball players, even with the
best possible control of the game,
but conditions such as those revealed
at Chicago never could have devel-
oped if the National Commission had
been competent and really solicitous
for the welfare of the game.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Flapjack- Loving Vagrant
Reaps Harvest of Coins

waited not for the "thank you"
which was Forthcoming, and hurried
away. The vagabond turned his
back upon the napjaclSs and de-
parted. The irresolute seven went |
their respective ways, each Of them,
no doubt, feeling ashamed that they
had not been the particular ones to
write the tinis to the performance |
Young Mr.. Manhattanite now was
deeply absorbed in the breaking of
the vagabond's fast. Would he rush
into some cheap eating place to fill |
that great void? Would he devour
plates and all? Mr.. Manhattanite
wondered-and followed.
Two blocks further down was an
other eating place with an expan-
sive window front. In the window
was display Of apples, oranges and
bananas. The vagabond proved his
versatility; he could be fascinated
by viands other than flapjacks;
those great gray eyes could gaze
as soulfully upon fruits as upon
flour preparations. His posture was
the height of art.
Again the thoughtful and the curl
Gus paused; again-and with what
keen delight to Mr.. Manhattanite-
men struggled against self. 1t
seemed to him that they saw in the
vagabond, in this man who gazed
upon apples as if they were the
realization of lifelong dream,
something more than mere hungry
man; something indefinable but
tragic; something that spoke of life
hunger rather than food-hunger.
A little later, after having fol-
lowed the vagabond to the fronts of
three more restaurants, Mr.. Man
hattanite summed up. He had
counted twenty-eight mental strug-
giles, six of which resulted in the
generous impulse driving the cor
poreal part of the person to benevo-
lent action.
A Fraud, but Artist, Too
Clearly, as hungry person, the
vagabond was fraud. But as an
artist, unheralded, unbillboarded,
could any actor have done more?
Was there an actor or play on
Broadway that could have taken the
same twenty eight souls out of their
torpor and put them into combat
with self?
1t was fraud plainly, but the
vagabond had broken no law. He
had solicited no one; had called no
ones attention to his plight; he had
simply been interested in fapjacks,
bananas, oranges, apples, popcorn,
etc.
Even if he had infringed upon one
Of the city's ordinances against
mendicancy, it was a case not for
policeman but for a dramatic
critic. Haywood Broun and Stephen
Rathbun would have found much to
praise in his performance. They
would have mentioned Barrymore
and some others-and no one criti-
cizes the amount Of Barrymore's
income.
AS young Mr.. Manhattanite unused
thusly he looked at the time. The
theater performance had long 'ago
commenced. But had he not wit
messed something as good as any
theater performance, something
which had induced possibly more
genuine feeling than any single per
formance of tragedy?
YES" he said to himself, and, ap-
preaching the vagabond, dropped so
cents into his hand and went back
to his furnished room feeling that
the performance had been cheap at
the price.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Generosity Triumphant

It would have ended in irresolu-
ton, but the young Hamlet observed
himself being watched by the irres-
olute seven, and as public figure
felt impelled to provide a happy
ending for th show. He reached
the vagabon1 extended q coin.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
A Thorough Housecleaniing From
Cellar to Ganet Is the Only
Hope for Came Future

control of baseball. The National
Commission saw nothing but the
seasons receipts. They heard moth
ing but the click Of the turnstiles.
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MzsouGc temple Workren hare
PASSED ta@ question Of wages up 10
The central bcdT.
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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-03-12
Pennsylvania
LANCASTER. Pa. Feb. 25

LANCASTER. Pa, Feb. 25, 1920
The buying of Lancaster county's
1919 crop has practically ended, the
few crops unsold not counting, for they
are so widely scattered over the county
that none of the packers consider it
Worth while to go after them. Their
holders will become tired of keeping
them by and by and will then take
whatever they can get for crops that
would have brought more when selling
was general Within the past few
weeks, a good deal of tobacco sold as
low as Is cents, and it wasn't of the
poorest quality either. The owners
held on bit too long, under the mis-
taken impression that packers would
pay bigger prices as the crop was be-
ing cleaned up.
The rule has almost invariably been
that tobacco crops held with this end in
view either went begging in the end or
even sold some cents below the prices
paid when selling was brisk. Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-03-12
New York
NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 1920.

= NEW YORK, Feb. 70, 1920.
Water Street has developed nothing
of particular market interest during
the past week, and is still suffering
from the very pronounced handicap of
shipping paralysis, which has seriously
affected the movement of leaf supplies
all along the line. Warehouses in prac-
tically all the important growing GEN.
ters are still hampered in their opera
tiOns by the inability OF the growers to
make sufficient deliveries, because of
the impossible state of the highways,
says the Tobacco Leaf However, it
sees no real cause for worry, as these
conditions are only temporary and must
yield to the more permanent. currents
of the trade situation in general. It
says:
In view of these conditions and the
still more important consideration that
the market is so nearly bare of the
most desired types of cigar leaf tobac-
cos, the present marked inactivity of
the local market is neither surprising
in the cigar leaf outlook.
the country pushing production to the
limit of capacity, and in view Of the
constantly increasing evidence that the
present phenomenal demand will be
sustained throughout a period of many
months, leaf merchants see no good
reason to regard the present lull as
anything more significant than tenn
porary and very patural interlude.
There is some measure of gratifca-
tion in the promise of some relief from
the present stringent binder shortage,
which may be afforded by the early a.
rival in the market of considerable
quantities of force sweated Havana
Seed stocks, which may be ready with
in the next three weeks.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-03-12
Wisconsin Tobacco Market

EDGERToN, Wis. March IL, 1920
The tobacco situation is beginning to
assume proportions of the serious. To
the growers who depend upon the to-
bacco money to meet their. obligations
TO the merchant, the banker and other
creditors, the delay in case weather
means annoyance and loss. 1t pinches
the merchant because the farmer can
not pay his bills; it leaves the hands of
the warehouses idle, and puts the nat
ural sweating of the leaf off into sea-
son that~is not so favorable. The pack
ers worry because tobacco that comes
in when taken down without sufficient
moisture, is liable to cause him trouble
and loss, and the manufacturer who is
waiting for the 1919 to come into the
market early, is certain to be disap-
pointed. The grower who has not sold
his tobacco, is, as far as the income of
the crop is concerned, no worse off than
he who sold early, but has not been able
to strip and deliver Yet, those who
have not sold are more or less on the
anxious seat, because they cannot tell
how their tobacco is going to look in
the bundle. If they get it down in good
condition, all is well; but as the wealth
er conditions have been, the chance of
getting it down in first-class condition
diminishes with every passing week.
Several of these untoward features of
the tobacco situation may be quickly
remedied. Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week have given the tobacco
temperature that is favorable for
case, and the moisture is on the in
crease with considerable fog We'd
nesday morning. If atmospheric con-
ditions that we have now bold for an
other "a hours, with increase of moist
ure, much tobacco is sure to come
down. And those who are not too pre-
vious in getting II off the poles, may
see it in pretty fair case.
AS we go to press: The long expect
ed moist is on, bringing the long hoped
for relief.
We understand that the Farmers
Warehouse Edgerton packing of 1913
tobacco has been inquired for, but no
sale is reported.