The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13
WON'T STRETCH
THE WORLDS
SERIES
American Leaguers Vote
Down Suggestion to In
crease Number of Games.

CHICAGO, Dec. 13.-There will be only
seven games in the worlds championship
series as Usual next fall. The American
League did an about-face yesterday after
sleeping over the agreement reached the
day before to make it the best five In
nine.
After thinking the matter over carefully
the owners decided an extension of the
series looked too much like a commercial
proposltion-in other words, a play for
extra gate receipts at raised prices.
While they agreed that, from a purely
baseball standpoint. n longer services gave
a team more of a chance to show its en-
tire strength and went a long way to
eliminate the element of luck-a series
like the Detroit-Chicago, when one team
won -four STRAIGHT ganes, would make a
nine-game series a farce.
The bard of directors for the coming
year will be composed of the representa-
tives of the Chicago, Cleveland, New
York and Boston clubs. Charles II. Som
srs OF Cleveland. was reelected as vice
president President Johnson also an
nounced the schedule and rules committees.
the ruler committee is composed of
Charles A. Comiskay, Chicago; Clark Crit
fifth, New York, and Connie Mack, Phila-
delphi. The schedule committee consists
of President B. B. Johnson. John 1. Tay-
Ior. Bottom and Robert Hedges. ST.
Louis.
This committee. II is expected. will have
several 1usy sessions during the winter,
and will have many interesting changes
TO report at the time of the spring meet
ing. The afternoon session was taken up
entirely with a discussion of h much
abused waiver clause.
President Johnson drew up a new rule
pertaining TO the system of clubs refusing
to waive clajrl to players for the purpose
of securing them and farming them to
their W minor league friends. The rule
was brought up 10 put an end TO Joe Can
tillon's practise of blocking deals for other
clubs.
The new rule regarding transfers of
players restricts the practise of securing
a player by turning him over to a club
outside the league. 1t provides that If a
club that obtains title to a player by re-
fusing to waive claims to him, shall, with
In thirtyedays. ask for waivers on him he
shall revert to the club which originally
owned him, upon return of the $1,000 and
the club to which he reverts shall. for ten
days, have the privilege Of disposing of
him to any club outside the league without
further requests for waiver. 1t Is pro-
vided that II more than one club had re-
fused to waive in the first instance all
such clubs. except the one returning him,
shall have the right to refuse to waive
the second time 1t is further provided
that no change in the salary of such a
player shah take place for thirty days and
that advantage canno be taken of this
new rule until the player has been placed
in regular service by the club securing
him originally by means OF the waiver
provision.
Bill Bernhard is a possibility for the
m%anagership of the Milwaukee club, of the
American Association. MS successor to JACK
Doyle. A representative Of the Milwaukee
team yesterday asked Lajoie if Bernhard
could be secured. and received the answer
that the club would not stand Ia the way
of Big Bill advancing himself.
Joe Cantillon tried to get waivers oil
Catcher Heydon. but Jennings put In his
little may" Cantillon wanted to send
Heydon to KANSAS City In payment for
Shortstop Mcbride.