Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-28

NOHUIe MACK. the uidtIlOHu ul-
til the second edition OF the 1919
scandal began to circulate.
OF course, the contention OF Hap
Fclsch and others OF the banished Sox
that the American league pennant Of
1917 was purchased does not ring
true. because OF its improbability in
the face of the records OF that season
which do not show that Detroit lost
any suspicious quantity of games to
Chicago. But the blacklisted players
had it in their power to make the
claim that the flag was bought. and
such things are as hard to disprove
as it was to convict the guilty play
ers of throwing the worlds series,
even after they had confessed.
Admits Raising Pool. u
1t is admitted there was a pool
raised among the White Sox and
that Chic Gandil was the collector
and distributor. Moreover, nobody
seems to know for sure just what
Chic did with the money. And Gan
dill belonged to the same clique as
the discredited squad. TIE good
Sox claim they contributed to re-
ward the Detroit pitchers for extra
efforts against the Boston team,
which was. disputing the pennant
with Chicago that fall. 1t may have
been they were double-crossed-
just as in l9l9-and the money was
used in an attempt to have games
thrown to the White Sox. sn
That money was used is not de-
MED and the only question seems to
be the degree of the wrong coms
mitted. ~
| The real meat Of the revived scam
dal, however, was the nonchalant way
in which present Sox players tried
to dismiss !, it as an above board
transaction, "well known to organ
lied baseball" and quite the usual
thing" as one Of the players put it.
Not an Unusual Thing.
But if everybody interested in or
ganized baseball had known it was
quite the usual thing" for = pennant
contending team to offer a reward to
players on other teams to use extra
endeavor to beat some other flag con-
tender the public's belief in the hon.
esty, of base ball would have been
shaken much longer ago than 1875
Now that there promises to be COM.
plete airing of the old scandal. it is
going to require some more drastic
action to convince doubling fans that
all the ills Of the game were cured
when Judge Lands was made doctor
with authority to prescribe or operate
as he saw fit.
Still. the great mass Of patrons
have had to believe for years that
the average ball player considered
baseball his game and not the pub
lies and that he was in it for every
cent he could get out of it. Hun
dreds OF incidents occurred every
year from the blue sky holdout TO
the striking bat boy.
Perhaps one Of the smallest caliber
collections ball players have tried to
take up is at the expense of news
paper photographers. It wasn't so
many years ago that a player con-
ssidered himself lucky to get his phiz
IN a paper at all, but times have
changed. Too much publicity stuff
converted some OF the athletes into
crabs. Although, so far as knowf..
none Of them ever has tried to coll
lect from a newspaper for the privil-
ege of printing a picture, some Of
them have tried to collect money
from the innocent, hard working staff
photog.
Why Schang Was Traded.
Few people know the real reason
why Connie Mack traded Walter
Schang. 1t grew out of the catch.
er's attempt to hold up a Chicago
Tribune photographer for a piece Of
coin in payment for a pose before
the camera. Mack heard of the in,,
cident and ordered Schang to pose
for the photographer. Schang re.
fused and was suspended, although
he had been assigned to catch that
game.
| Hats off to Connie Mark