The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-08-07
FANS AND PLAYERS
ARE PUT ON GRILL
.NNED FOR MAKING oBJEc-
PA T1oNs TO DECISIONS OF
UMPIRE AT DAWSON
You Are Sure

You Are OuIe
r..-e amt no use to argue
lneLe ain't no use to pout;
Iheiu mes the guy that calls EN-,
INC Wb u, he says you're out, you're out
NOT know bloomin' thing,
ne e. NV What it's all about;
VI WV, wrl" amt no use to wrangle,
Bq WHEN ,,sr he says you're out, you're out.
oren if the ump is wrong,
But II,t esoI he saws you're out, you're out.
o. VANS the play is pretty close
pprbaps there's room Tor DOUBT
f''''"r From the Sporting News.
NJ, ohove seems to be the refrain
.bs Americas sport scribe, who, IN
OF ,n erent issue of the Times Record.
a 'u laLes exception to the attitude OF
|ef i iarsi nIavers and fans in the game
me .h i0I Gmqricus here last Tuesday.
VIII III article states that the "contin-
~ Living of the Dawson players at
.ss u.s. decisions of the umpire ana the
y, ni+bets yelled at him from the stands
ep .at have been embarrassing to the
mus nllIsnd;d people of Dawson attending
" l'| came there Tuesday.
lT T5s article is headed: Playing
p. in, and Spelling Its Pleasure,
D "S 'c|oncludes with the statement that
|. i not written as a criticism OF
j , W fans or its players, but with
D@ Jes;re for the management OF the
'a4 ss teams to call halt on this
objectionable feature"
/ There is also a paragraph IN which
H. Americus writer commends jack
[ao and his bunch for their gentle
E~ Um w. conduct on the field. Just inn
prne anyone complimenting Joe jack
fon for gentlemanly conduct on the
6ossball field. That certainly gets the
Ept glass fly swatter without further
/ The article may not be criticism
Dawson fans or players, but it
hands to reason that in five weeks of
baseba1l that must have been some
fbections to the decisions OF the UNI
IT, in Americas instead of making
necessary to come all the way to
hawson to find such an Objectionable
Ieature of the national pastime.
Amercus should be the last place
/ tbe United States to plead for bet
|fr sport in Playing Baseball and
Boiling It's Pleasure" after hiring a
han outlawed by every town in or
kanjzed ball and then making him
fanager Of their club. Apropos to the
Ibove is fine following article clipped
Eom the pages of St. Louis paper:
Zoe Jackson, one of the ineligible
Mite Sox crooks. will persist IN
trusting himself into public notice,
Jason after season, although it is now
eary three years since the 1917
kords series conspiracy was uncov-
led and the conspirators properly
Finished by organized ball.
why Jackson should thus continue
lear after year to figure in some way
|eiore the public, which would prefer
forget him and all of his 1lk, is IN
Eplicable, unless he is nursing the
|Ope that in some manner he will be
kstored to good standing-a vain
|pDe, as there is not shadow OF
|Oubt that he and the remaining
looks committed the one unforgiv--
/ bic crime against organized ball and
/ is therefore absolutely beyond the
bic for life.
"Iackson's latest feat is the transfer
his activities from the independent
sastrop La. team to the Americas
/. lib Of the South Georgia League, a
mi-nrofeSsiona1 league not in organ
/ ed ball. Jackson signed a contract
18th the Americas club at SIS per
eek for the balance of the season,
!. d was ready to play, when a pro,
st was lodged with the league board
directors and that body decided
i at Jackson's ineligibility applied al
to the South Georgia League, and
Eereiore he could not play with any
IAN in the organization.
"Thereupon Americas raised such a
Rw that the directors reversed them
lives and gave Jackson leave to play
Rth Americus for the balance OF the
kaSon; and accordingly Jackson made
+ debut at Americas, and, according
& press dispatches, received regular
#atons from the crowd during and
Hter the game-which makes one
ponder what conception of decency
b honor that crowd could possibly
Rve.
However, if these Georgia people
n stand for self-confessed crook
ball player like Jackson, then we
oppose organized bail can offer no
#ore objections, in view of the fact
"a it ends all chance of future ad-
SION to or alliance with the great
8Seball family. But to the mass OF
8nest players OF the South Georgia
ague the forced professional asso-
etl0n with. notorious ineligible
fyer IS a misfortune, as well as
Egrace as it endangers any PROBES
Pna hopes for the future such hon
players may have, and gravely
duplicates the existing situation.
a rule is proposed that no player
the independent ranks who plays
IN or against an ineligible player OF
#ganlzed ball can play with any club
that organization until he has been