Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-27
DOWN THE LINE

nearly two weeks to go. The pen
nant has been won and lost, so no
body cares about the games except
from an entertainment standpoint.
We should be ready to play the
world series now"
I am afraid that when the pennant
races are over the customers do not
care much for the base ball games from
an entertainment standpoint either.
Reliable reporters who were at the
Yankee Stadium the other day merely
suffered grimly and silently. II they
were being entertained, it was the same
entertainment that is felt when one
sits in a dentists chair without anes-
theticS.
There is interest in Chicago, where
they turned back S1,200000 in advance
orders. and in Philadelphia, but 1t Is
anticipatory interest. The customers
merely are marking time until the
world series.
The Obvious Remedy.
LAR be it from me to volunteer to
l. do the thinking for the magnates,
but I suppose somebody has to do 1t.
I recall that when Col. T1lllngnast
L'Hommedieu Houston was still mag
nate Col Bozeman Bulger, who Is by
way of being dean of the base ball
writer's, remarked to him: where
would you be if you did not have a
lot of base ball writers to do your
thinking for you?" Col. Huston was
modest enough to admit that he would
be nowhere in particular so far as the
national pastime was concerned.
Mr.. Barnard, in his own statement,
suggests the remedy. He declares that
nobody cared much about base ball
games after the pennant races are
~,
be starting now. Why not, theps- have
the base ball season in the big leagues
end automatically the moment BOTH
races are over to what the boys cali
the old mathematical certainty?
It is quite improbable that TINS
could happen until very near the
end of the time set for the base
ball season. With both remnants
won, why should the agony be pro-
longed? There are indications
enough that interest in the ma
tional pastime is considerably on
the wane without making the Gus
toners suffer from ennui.
OF course, there are the second,
third and fourth clubs to be consid-
cred, for they, too participate IL the
world series Swag. But it would be falr
enough to them if the season ended
automatically with the cinching OF both
pennants.
In addition this would be an eco
nomical measure. When the parks are
as vacant as was the Yankee Stadium
the other day the overhead kicks up
deficit that eats into the years profits.
It seems strange that the magnates
could not see this obvious Improvement
themselves. But then magnates are
just magnates.
Another Unsolved Mystery.
ON the eve of the Battle of Nothing
" Much between Phil Scott and
Victoria Campolo, the Tall Tower Of
the Argentine, it was discovered what
has been the matter with Campolo,
who was unprepared to enter the ring
on the first two dates set because of
a misery in his back which inca
pacitated him from taking count
while lying down in the event that
such an emergency should arise.
Humberto Fugazy has just discov-
cred that Campolo has bacteria in
his back. Naturally somebody must
have put them there. Bacteria
would not lodge in Campolo's back
of their own volition, and Humberto
Fugazy wants 10 know who put
them there. All of the Six Hundred
Millionaires are under suspicion.
Detectives are at work to learn If
any of the Six Hundred maintain BAG
terra farms. 1t is known that Ed
Hutton has a stable of fighters, but
his friends maintain stoutly that he
never has gone in for bacteria. The
mystery is battling one. If nothing
develops before tonight, Mr.. FugaZy IN
tends to ask Police Commissioner Gro
yer Whalen to turn out his pack of
police dogs on the case.
Tiki