"SLAVES" OF SPORT.
The organisation of professional baseball, the national pastime in America, was denounced in the House of Representatives lately as the ' 'most" audaeioua and autocratic Trust in the country." Mr Gallagher, a representative of Chicago, said the governing commission of the baseball leagues "stifled competition, apportioned territories and games, fixed the prices which millions must pay to witness the games, enslaved players, forcing them to accept salaries on its own terms or be foi ever barred from playing, and in other ways trafficked in the national pastime for pecuniary gain."
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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 85, 10 June 1913, Page 8
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92"SLAVES" OF SPORT. Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 85, 10 June 1913, Page 8
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