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1 x Eton, Williams and Pratt of. the Browns each poled a trio of bingles. Do we know any sport dope? We don't. Let's talk about ourselves. .A lot' of bugs have been going around mourning" about the money the managers were losing because of the postponed ball games. These. b.ugs weren't sore because there were no games for them to view. Nope. These sympathy .philanthropists were sorry' for the managers. But how about the so-called sport experts? Here's a bunch of poor nuts who have been working their pipes overtime and dreaming all kinds of wild-eyed dope for the past Ave months. They have sold players, made new managers and have done lots of other things on paper. Then, about two months ago, the training season opened and there was something to write about. If there was a practice "game, it was soft for the expert. If there was no practice, why, a gaping populace was eager to lamp the neVs that Bill Smith, the new recruit, was developing a ball that broke four ways at once before the batter hit it or that Jud Jones, was a bear on pie for breakfast. Old stuff and easy. But gosh, when the season opened, we thought it would be real soft. When there's a game every day there is some news. But thera aren't any games. It doesn't look like there are going to be any games. And those pie yarns and four-track-curves can't get across. During the big league season you have to pull the big league stuff. We're sore. We want to see a bail game. We gotta have somethin' to write about. If there isn't a game this afternoon we're"going to import D. MacGregor or Jane Whitaker from the high-bean department to write us up like a white slave. We feel like one. "OVER THE FENCE3 ARBITRATION TO SETTLE BUFFALO CAR STRIKE Buffalo, April 12. The street car strike will be settled 'by arbitration. Streqt car service was resumed on all lines at 5 o'clock this morning. A truce agreement was signed, which provides: All employes to be returned to same positions held before the strike. After men are at work and within five days after signing agreement the company takes up all complaints. and grievances with a committee of em ployes. If they can't agree, then it goes to arbitration board of three. If the two selected "can't agree on third arbitrator the mayor becomes the third. At arbitration hearings either side can be represented by any one it de-. sires. Decision of board shall make I their finding within 15 days and it. shall be binding on both"' sides.