The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-14
STOP Transforming,
SHOULD Be RULING
OF BASEBALL BOSSES
ny FRANK c. MENKE

II the bosses of baseball firmly an
nounced: NO more transforming,
they'd save themselves lot of trouble
and do lot for baseball as whole
Such an ultimatum might bring
squeaks of wrath from the noble ath-
letes who yearn feverishly to extract
every last dollar out of the baseball
crchards-but their sadness would be
Offset by the ultimate good that would
come to the game.
transforming tours never have help
ed the game. Rather, they have had
a tendency to lower the esteem in
which folks in the small towns have
held the big leaguers. The athletes,
on transforming tours. have consist
emily shown disposition to regard
them as frolicsome periods-to the
detriment of the game.
A mess of Brooklyn Dodgers now
are in Cuba Are they helping the
game? Are they frightening the opin-
ion concerning big leaguers? Nix.
They seem to be doing just the oppos-
tie. Their Indifferent play on the field,
their utter disregard of decorum and
training rules off of it, has brought
severe censure upon their heads. Gu
ban newspapers have condemned and
criticized them.
Chaos Resulted
Babe Ruth went on a transforming
tour-and chaos resulted. If such
tours had not been permitted, Ruth
never would have gone on one and the
Yankee chances for 1922 would not
have been killed by his suspension
ror would the American League as a
whole be forced to suffer the loss Of
around 100000 through Ruth's alb
sence from the game until the latter
part of May, 1922.
Ty Cobb. George Sisler, Rogers
Hornsby and a few other major
leaguers are part and parcel of a win
ter league which is operating along
the Pacific slope. They are playing
the game fairly and clearly and are
not bringing any discredit upon them
selves or baseball. But, just the same,
their presence is doing a certain harm
10 the game out there.
Men behind the Pacific Coast League
all of sudden have awakened to the
tact that winter league baseball is
burting their summer baseball For
baseball all the year around on the
coast means that the natives are be.
ing baseballed to death. If there
we're no winter league, then the appe
lite of the fans would become wolfish
during the winter and, in the spring
time, thered be a grand rush to the
baseball parks.
Ruling Insufficient.
As a result of some antics perform
ed by world series athletes of 1911
which brought certain discredit upon
The game-the bingoes of baseball
adopted rule which barred futura
world series athletes from barnstorm
ing in the same year that they partici-
pated in the blue ribbon struggle
The powers within baseball had the
right idea then-but they didn't carry
it far enough. They realized that
transforming was bad for the gamC
but instead of banning all players
simply hung the nothing doing" in,
sigma upon the world series athletes
They should have ruled:
NO transforming for anyone con.
nected with the major leagues"
It isn't too late to do it now. II
tact, they should do it now. They
should bar transforming completely
Such a regulation hight harm the
pockets of some of the boys a few
hundred dollars or so. But it viii
help the sport. And, after all is sale
and done. it's the game-the sport
which counts-not the individuals.
Copyright 1921 BY King Features
Syndicate, Iuc.)
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the student population in the Latin
quarter in Paris last year droppet
from 1900 to 1000