Argosy All-Story Weekly, December 2, 1922 — page 169: what you’re looking at

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IZZY KAPLAN’S KOLUMN. 639 The woiking conditions is another thing to holler about. The averich baseballer has to woik nearly two hours a day and six days out of the week. Maybe he would come up to bet about four times in a game, and they nefer give him no assistent to carry the bet. Even a plumber has got it a feller to carry his suit case with the tools in it. That will be one of the foist hollers, I belief. Also there has been some sad cases during last season where some of the pitchers has been made to pitch twice a week by them cruel slave drivers, which they call them menegers. Also when the game would go ten inninks they nefer gave them a cent for overtime. Ain’t that enough to make a pitcher’s blood chust boil over. You bet if I * Ny yy y “ \ . + ee Y es ‘ x et ‘ ‘ \* Lf tie a, (ee - oS a ~— NK SZ me “w “4 * we GX Va * on SX Yf: ay ‘ SA "an i «\ WOIKING CONDITIONS IS GETTING TOUGH FOR HIM was a pitcher and the game went into the tenth I would esk the meneger: “‘ How about it? Is this a union ball club or is it an open shop?”’ t don’t know whether the thing would go so far that the players would call it a strike or not. You know how sensative the players is when anybody else calls it a strike on them, especially if it is one of the empires. Maybe they would go so far as the foist strike and they might even call a second one, but when it comes to a thoid strike I think the piayers would stop and look the situation over before they would do nothing else. A player chust can’t bear to think about a thoid strike. That is where I think maybe them gresping magnets has got them in the hole, and you bet that they know it. _If Baby Ruthstein should walk out on account of a cut in his celery I bet that haluf of the benk presidents and railroad presidents in United States would walk right out with him. Fellers that get celeries like that wouldn’t like to see them cheapened. That would make the conditions in this country terrible. Nobody would be hitting no run homes and nobody would be at. the benk to take away your money or to send you woid that the morgitch is due, and you don’t pay it before the fifteenth they would send around the sheriff with a dispossessing. You couldn’t arger with none of them sheriffs, neither. I shouldn’t wonder if Baby Ruthstein would call it a strike, anyhow. Woiking Gomichbooks.com