The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-17
Frank Chance, a Hero
of Sports for Profit,
Breaks Into Headlines
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.


in the top headlines. The of his death over
shadows, in Chicago the arrival of the worIdiers The
presidential campaign pushed aside The war IN China
are forgotten Chance is dead That most important
Frank Chance not famous engineer, like Charles
P Steinmetz He not author of note He had made
scientific discoveries He had not in for CAPT
taist politics. He had tried to push the world ahead
He just leader in baseball
Frank Chance called 1.-THE Peerless Leader" in the
s ss gEf"'S 40'''''' '''' paying 'p'' ''''
Frank Chance in five seasons gave Chicago four Ma
tiona League penants worlds championships That
something for the frantic baseball fans to yell over
while put much gold into the treasures of the baseball
magnates who make business of this game.
Money rules in baseball It is not accident that most
penants go either New York Chicago These the
two largest cities in the nation They furnish the biggest
baseball crowds The crowds pay to see the games giving
money that the managers oubd the managers from other
cities in the purchase of baseball players in the market
much after the fashion slaves put the auction
block in the days of black chate slavery in this country
Chances job was to pick up the best baseball players
in the slave market bring them Chicago organize them
into team to win games that paid high
missions to witness the performance
Profiteerng in baseball has led graft in baseball
Where games cannot be won, they bought This has
resulted to repeated scandals in capitalist baseball as in
capitalist business capitalist politics. These will be
eliminated because the aborbaitng ex Judge, KenesaW
Mountain Lands has been made the overload Of baseball
The evils will continue just the Baseball will continue
to have its own Teapot Domes"
Big crowds at high prices dominating motive
in college sports we'll in professional sports This has
resulted in various inducements being offered athletes,
gymnass baseball and especially football players to attend
certain colleges They don't need to study just win games
There is little else outside of professional and college
sports in this country Where the great masses OF the child
of the workers to be found in the grammar schools
there practically sports In the shops and factories
sports are almost unknown:
Conditions in Soviet Russia under Workers Rule are
just reversed in comparison to the United States and in
other capitalist countries. Sports
brick walls around the athletic fields under Soviet Rule
Physical supremacy takes the place of profit rule The best
man. instead of the highest pile OF money the victor
In Soviet Russia the attracted to active par
ticipation in the nations sports.
Soviet Russia usually picture showing great
participating In Soviet Russia the broadcast masses OF
ers in the factories especially enlisted the Russian
Section the powerful section of the Red International
of Sports that is growing in strength in all lands
The owlest worker from the isolated factory has
Football Team it was this team that recently played the
British Soccer Football Team giving hope that the Russian
in spite of the fact that will be denounced Communist
propaganda"
In this interim between the baseball and football
in this country Americans supposed get excited about
onares It the game of the idle rich charged that
Pedey of California of the best polo players in the
British Meadowbroo because he did not have the proper
pull in society The expenses OF the British team are be-
ing paid by Lord Beavebrook who claims the first game
lost because the best players in England were killed
during the That an innocent confession that
capitalism takes its strongest youth to send to its human
slaughter houses
Capitalism has made sordd mess of sports, just as
despos everything touches Frank Chance the hero
of social order that passing The big thing in his favor
was that good player, in addition to being
cessfuI manager according to the capitalist standards
established for the game. What labor needs in America
some Frank Chance who will organize and develop RED
Sports" this country The organization Of such working
class SPORTS accepting the leadership of the Red Sports In
ternationa will prove popular with the employing class
press When such Frank Chance dies his name will not
first place the days headlines Only the working class
press will do him honor.
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