The Canadian Valley News. (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 29, Ed. 2 Friday, December 1, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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rloNESTY Makes National
Game- Huge Success
mr* ticy w »ft«*
virtue Is Its own re-
ward they do not re-
fer to baseball Not
necessarily. When
bankers, merchants,
physicians, ministers,
lawyers, professors, chauffeurs, taboo
ere. office boys and chorus girls to the
aggregate number of perhaps forty
million pay admission In the course of
one season to the ball parks of Ihe
United States of America, those In
charge of the sport
find that honesty Is
remunerative, lucra-
tive—nothing less.
In fact, than a big
paying proposition.
Baseball barons
of the present day
have become such
because the public
believes the nallon-
al game Is conduct-
ed on the principle
of a fair field and
no favor. They look
on the players as
being as true to the
Interest of their
clubs as the needle
to the pole
Baseball did not
always bear the
charmed life that It
now seems to pos-
sess. A time there
was when to be a
professional base
bail player was to
be relegated to the
rear In the public
regard. Baseball
then was an excuse
for belling. Crooked
play followed gambling ns the night
the day Women did not dock to ball
games then. Even the wives and
daughters of the players preferred
not to be seen at the ball grounds
When they did attend a game they
applauded In whispers from behind
the clubhouse door The bnr at a
bnll park used to be the center ol
Interest. Bets were placed on Its
slippery surface,- and there the odds,
together with various degrees ol
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lumtnatlon, were collected. 1
Hitchers, shortstops, even the cap
tains of teams were not too exclusive
to patronize the betting facilities ol
the bar. On their way to the field
before the game players used to de-
posit with the bartender such wagers
on the outcome as they felt they had
a moral right to risk In view of their
duty to their lamilleB. It Is now his
tory that sometimes these players
■would bet on the invulnerability e?
the opposite side The opposite side
ollen won. A classic Illustration ol
the unlovely possibilities of such a
system Is the case of a pitcher who
was seen to divide 9700 with two ot
bis able supporters. The money was
counted out before the game on a
hotel bed. If the players had been
less able, perhaps, they could have
been secured tor a smaller amount,
but J700 was their price lor throwing
a deciding game.
To buy a ball player sometimes
cost more than this A pitcher ot the
first rank of that day—so rank that
In these times of sober purity In the
pastime such a man would not be ai
lowed to carry bats to the railroad
station—went to the mound with
9500, his figure for turning traitor, tn
bis trousers pocket It would have
been less embarrassing to the pitcher,
as events turned nut. If he had hur-
led the money In his garden, at least
slipped It under the front doormat
When Ihe pitcher began to show signs
of caving In or doing what Is now de-
scribed by the sporting writers as an
Orville Wright act, somebody placed
the farts of the case In the manager s
care The manager called the game
for a minute and, not stopping to pick
any grass or do any sidestepping on
the way, visited the pitcher In his
box "I Just want to say,” Bald the
manager to the pitcher, merely loud
enough for the pitcher alone to hear,
"If you lose this game I'll have you
undressed In the dressing room and
lake that money off you before the
whole team." Everyone noticed how
much good a. few kind words from the
manager had done for his star pitcher
at a critical point In the game. The
pitcher won the game.
1 It was a reckless sport In those
days to bet without first getting wind
of the way the playerR, especially the
■tars, were placing their money. This
•Was In the early 7«'s. The game was
traveling the pace that kllla. Why
did It not go the way that racing has
gone? What saved It from the punch
that put professional boxing lu the
sporting bread llneT
Along about 1875 ministers spent
almost as much time preaching
against baseball as against dancing
and the liquor evil. Uetormers made
reputations and adherents to their
cause because of the bitterness with
•which they assailed baseball. They
bad no great difficulty In proving that
the game as conducted was crooked
In 1875 a revolt, led by W. A Hut
bert. owner of the Chicago club, was
organized. It had one object,—to
make the game a clean, honorable
sport, free from gambling. The strong
rule against gambling waB disregard-
ed by the New York and Philadelphia
members of the National League of
Professional Baseball Clubs. They
went out of the organization and tor
Seven years New York and Philadel-
phia were without league baseball
The championship was In Louis
vine's grasp about this time. Pour
players were found to be taking
bribes to throw a game. They were
catapulted out of the league. They
never came back. "Nix, forever" was
the decision of the directors ot the
new antl-gambllng outfit when these
men made numerous appeals for re-
instatement. One man sent his wife
t^ Hulbert. She said that the league
had reduced her and her children to
hunger "Here's a hundred dollars;
take It and eat," said Hulbert. "Come
to me again If your husband doesn't
get work. 1 will never . reinstate
him.”
It was strong medicine, but It saved
Ihe game. The lesson burned Its
message on the minds and hearts of
the players everywhere. Gambling
was taken by the hand and led to the
entrance of the ball park and accord-
ed less than fifteen seconds to go
away. Prom that day the league has
regarded gambling as the cancer of
the game.
Undoubtedly the players as a class
are today the cleanest body of pro-
fessional athletes In the new world.
In the 70’s the fans used to say: "Aw,
they threw the game.” When does
one hear a serious charge of that kind
new?
During the desperate pennant race
In the American league In 1908 a sin
gle decision by Sheridan on a play at
the plate killed the hopes of St. Louts
and a day later a decision In the first
Inning, a ball which the White Sox
Insisted was a strike, ended Chicago s
hopes. In that same season Pred
Clarke was called out at third base
on the last day of the National league
season at Chicago, and Pittsburg lost
the pennant by that decision. But
there was not a whisper of criticism
respecting the umpire, whose deci-
sions blasted the fondest hopes, per-
haps. that baseball players can know
If the honesty of the game were not
so universally and cheerfully recog
nlzed, the numerous situations always
manifesting themselves where the old-
fashioned crooked work could do the
trick so easily would lekd to doubts
In the minds of the fans and the game
would die. Except for the spirit that
pervades the promoters and players
of the game, that they must be con-
stant as the northern star, the oppor-
tunities for a weak man to be tempt-
ed would be so many and might be
made financially so advantageous that
It would not be a cause for surprise IT
a cog slipped now and then.
As baseball Is played today It Is
practically impossible for questionable
operations to creep Into the maneu-
vers of the diamond. Since the great
leagues eliminated gambling the
banker and office boy know that at
the ball pnrk they will find a relaxa
tlon as nearly flawless from a moral
point of view as It Is possible to ob-
tain In nn Imperfect world. The lem-
onade may be largely Imagination,
but the virility and honor of the glad
latnrs In Ihe arena below they know
are above criticism. An umpire may
not walk to suit them, but the fans,
notwithstanding their Insulting verbal
assaults during the heat of battle up-
on his honesty or purpose, never reel
any deep doubt concerning his unpur-
chnsable allegiance to the square deal.
If umpires were less Bpotless objects
the fact that they are czars from 3:30
until tho game Is called on account of
darkness would, of course, make their
Irregularities worth a great deal of
money A naughty umpire might
make thousands ot dollars Tor render-
ing a wrong decision. He would have
to render a string of them over a very
brief period to profit much by trick-
ery, because as soon as his acts be-
came Identified he would have to
spend his earnings In another cli-
mate.
For lnstance_.lt la within the power
even of one umpire to make or un-
make an entire season, to change the
results of Bcorea of games by a
word. Hank O'Day called Merkle out
on the Polo grounds at the close of
A TYPICAL CLOSE PLAY INVOLV-
ING SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES TO
"THROW” THE GAME.
The fielder might purposely hurl the
jail a little wide, thus forcing the
baseman off the bag in order to catch
It. The runner, sliding, might pur-
posely fail to touch the base by the
fraction of an Inch. The baseman
might purposely fumble the ball or
fail to touch the runner by a hair's
breadth. The umpire might decide
that the runner beat the ball, or tho
ball beat the runner, by the tenth of
a second, and the cloud of dust would
cover the “error” of judgment or skill,
which Is the worst a “fan” would call
It, In each case; so confident is the
public of the honor of our big league !
players.
the season of 1908 when he failed to
touch second base. When Brldwell
made the hit that should have won
the pennant for New York thousands
of frantic "fans" leaped upon the fi''d
to congratulate the Giants. O Jay
saw Merkle run to the clubhouse and,
throwing down his protector, be ran
Into the diamond, saw Evers bold the
ball on second base and, above the
tumult, called Merkle out. Five thou-
sand men were swarming n •
around O'Day and the Chicago
ers, only partly understanding >
cause o( the excitement. Men stink
at O'Day, struck Chance and struck
Pfiester; but the umpire shouldered
his way along, brushed angry men
aside to get his protector and walked
through the crowd to bis dressing
room.
Suppose O'Day had been lacking In
scruples! His easiest course by tar
was to call Merkle safe.
The most responsible player on the
team, of course, is the pitcher. He
comes pretty nearly knowing the
weak spots In the batters who face
him. He knows that certain batters
like to connect with a slow ball,
others despise a spit ball, etc. If the
unsuBceptibllity of these men to the
buzzing of would-be bribe givers was
less pronounced how easily the pitch-
er might throw a deciding game! Yet
no one believes a pitcher capable of
other than loyal, hard working effort
to advance the fortunes of bis team.
The result Is that baseball Is one of
the most prosperous Industries as
well as our national sport. It Is esti-
mated that at least forty million per-
sons saw the games of about fifty
baseball leagues this season. Base-
ball has been systematized and com-
bined; been reduced a science and
business.
The National and American leagues
have each a president, a secretary
and a board of directors, as thorough-
ly equipped as those of the sugar
trust, and with, apparently, a better
appreciation ot how to acquire popu-
larity with the public. Merely from a
business standpoint baseball Is en-
titled to a leading place In national
affairs. A commercial Institution
with an Income of 910,000,000 Is re-
garded as of noteworthy Importance
In American life. We have such an
Institution In baseball. It does p
strictly cash business, and that does
not minimize Its popularity among
the trade. Take just one Item—that
of balls. The two major Issues pay
$2,500 cash each week for mils. Some
enthusiasts or the sport declare that
before many years, instead of forty
million persons, two and three hun-
dred million paid ndmisslons will be
taken at the box offices in this coun-
try nlone each season. In that case
expenses will go up—the managers
will have to buy more halls.
Apparently nothing can stop the
growth of the industry, or sport,
whichever you care to call It, except
the creeping Into It of something dis-
honest to kill the public's enthusiasm.
The game has all the elements of
strength; Ihe American people re-
joice In clean athletic contests, and
baseball somehow has the power In
an unusual degree to shake the ktnks
out or a man’s mind, make him a»
heart a boy again and send horn.- in
an optimistic mood the person who
left the office, study or laboratory pit-
ifully pessimistic two short hours be-
fore.
Takes More Than That.
"Truth lies at the bottom of B
well.”
"Yes, and unlike most wells, you
can’t raise It by hot air.”—Baltimore
American.
I_
A sunny spirit will doonore to Im-
prove the looks than a powder rag.
His Bearing.
"Is he a man of military bearing?”
"Well, he likes to 'eoldler.'"
Mm. Wtn.iow's Soothing Syrup for dill drew
teething, Boften. toe guins, reduce* Infliwumw
tlon, allays pain, cures wind eollo, She a OotUa.
A minister can’t win the poor by
courting the rich.
l.KSSON TEXT Nehemiah 4.
MEMORY VERSES—16. 17.
UOLDEN TEXT "Watch ye, stnnd fast
la th* faith, cult you like man. be strong.”
—1 Our, 14:13.
TIME Nehemiah heard the had newt
from Jerusalem early In December, B. C,
tit
For four months he prayed, thought
and waited.
The following April (440 he obtained
permission to go to Jerusalem.
The journey occupied four months and
he arrived at Jerusalem la the tlrst day
of the fifth month, Ab = July-Aug. (In
1911 the first day of Ab was August 6; !o
1916 It will be July 12.)
PLACE—Shushan and Jerusalem.
RULERS—Artaxerxes. Emperor of Per.
stan Empire; Nehemiah, governor ol
Judea; Eira, the scribe, the religious
leader of the people in Babylon.
When the right time came, and Ne-
hemiah’s heart was burning with son
row and desire, lie found “opportuni-
ties concealed In apparent hindrances."
It was dangerous to show sorrow In
the presence of the king. Even a mod-
ern autocrat like Louts XIV. expected
everybody's face to shine If he did but
appear, and how much more an Artax-
erxes? What, wear a sorrowful face
when he was presiding over joy and
gayefy, gilding them with his pres-
ence? It he had ordered this melan-
choly visage away to prison or death,
It would have been justified by prece-
dent. A gloomy face might mean dis-
affection against the king. The light
of his favor ought to be enough to
drive all sadness away.
Nehemiah had hitherto been able
to keep a smiling face when before
the king; but one day at a superb
banquet, when the queen was din-
ing with her husband, amid gold plate,
gorgeous silk dresses of every hue,
marble pillars, fountains, music, lights,
Bultanas, courtiers resplendent as the
sun, and all worshiping their sun Ar-
taxerxes, smiling when he smiled, his
sorrow shone through his face In
spite of himself, so that the king no-
ticed It and said:
"Why Is thy countenance sad, see-
ing thou art not sick? this Is nothing
else but sorrow of heart.” Then he
was very sore afraid, and said unto the
king, "Let the king live for ever: why
should not my countenance be sad,
when the city, the place of my fa-
thers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the
gates thereof are consumed of Are?
If It please the king, and If thy serv-
ant have found favor In thy sight, that
thou wouldest send me unto Judah,
unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres,
that I may build It.”
The kind was pleased to grant his
request, made him the Tirshatha, or
governor of Judea, “royal agent” or
"plenipotentiary,” with full powers.
He traveled to Judea In state, with a
military guard of cavalry, and with let-
tera to the rulers o fthe neighboring
provinces to give him whatever he
needed for hlB work.
Nehemiah was very wise. He lay
quiet for three days, doing nothing, but
learning everything. He showed no |
credentials, he proposed no plans, he
told no one what he hoped to do. His
first business was to learn the whole
situation, the feelings of the people,
who would oppose, and who would
help, how able the people were, what
obstacles must be overcome.
Nehemiah met the rulers, nobles,
priests and people, and told them ol
hls purpose lu coming, how he had
learned of their need, how he had
wept and fasted and prayed, and how
God had heard hls prayer and caused
the great emperor to favor hls plans,
give him permission to come, and au-
thority, with orders for the surround-
ing rulers to give the needed help. He
told them of hls midnight Investiga-
tions.
The business side of religion should
be done as Nehemiah did It in the
most skillful and Ideal business man-
j ner. Nehemiah had a layman’s good
sense In religion. Walls were neces-
sary to the Bafety of the city. They
were also necessary to true religion.
The division of labor, the noble com-
petition, the Interest In their work that
kept them from taking time to even
put off tlielr clothes, the giving each
his own work, and over against his
own house, the union of watching and
praying and working, the working to-
gether of old and young, rich and poor,
form a real master-Btroke of genius."
The wall was parceled out among 44
working parties. It waB like the re-
building of the walls of Athens after
the Invasion of Xerxes, like'the build-
ing of the walls of Edinburgh after the
battle of Flodden. This plan made each
one more earnest and faithful as he
saw what others were doing. It ani-
mated the work with a noble emula-
tion, and a personal pride. See how
fast my work goes on! See how well
my piece Is done! Now, my sons, gird
up your tunic, or Rephalah the son
of Htir will get ahead of us. True
emulation Is to do better than we
have done; to seek, not to get beyond
others, but to rise to the best possi-
ble for us; and to be Inspired to this
by seeing what others have done.
Besides the hnstllny of the Samar-
itans the Jews themselves were becom-
ing worn out with the fatigue of such
strenuous work.
No good goes on to success without
meeting obstacles. Evil does not fall
without a battle. It throws slander,
ridicule, treachery, conspiracies. Influ-
ence, discouragements, every possible
hindrance, In the way of reform. Even
some of the Jews were arrayed against
their brethren. They planned to take
Nehemiah and the city by surprise
slay the workers, and thus put a stop
to the work, but the answer was watch-
ing and nravar.
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