The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-27
MAY BIZ NO
WORLDS SERIES
NATIONALS 10S-GAME SCHED-
ULE ENDS IN COLD WEATHER.
stated American Leaguers May Re
fuse To Wait in Idleness While
National l. Finishing.
LONG SEASON MAY PREVENT

New York, Dec. 27.-Will there
be worlds championship baseball
series next fall? Persons familiar
with the inside machinery OF the
game we're prone to the belief that
unless the two major leagues chang
ed their plans the public will be de-
prived OF test between the rival
pennant winners.
The National League has voted to
play a schedule of 16S games next
year. the season opening on or about
April IA and ending on or about Oct.
10. The American League, on the
osher hand. has decided upon 15i
games, opening on or about April
IA and closing on Oct. or Z. II
these plans are adhered to the week
usually allotted to the worlds series,
directly following the close of tho
American league season. will be out
OF the question, 50 that IL worlds
! series is played at all II Will have 10
begin after Oct. Is, when the wealth
er is often entirely too cold for ball
playing.
The action OF the National league
in adopting the 16s game plan is
causing much speculation and gos-
sip. The plan was suggested by
Ebbets of Brooklyn and Murphy of
Chicago and was adopted unanim-
ously at the meeting. IL was glibly
announced with no explanations. and
the magnates when asked to give a
reason said they were in a hurry to
catch trains.
American Would BE Idle.
IL is believed to be a sure thing
that the American league will not
recede from its present position, and
II is also a certainty that the team
winning the American league PEN
nant would decline to take part In
worlds series after remaining idle
six or seven days while the National
league champions were finishing
their part of the schedule. Idleness
of that kind, 1t is thought. would
prove injurious, so that the Ameri-
can league champions would enter
belated worlds series at big
disadvantage. In fact, 1t is argued.
1t would be sheer folly for them to
submit to a test with a rival team
keyed up to concert pitch.
The fact that the Cubs and Pirates
have both won worlds champion
ships for the National League in the
last two years is taken to mean that
the magnates in the old organization
are not trying to dodge the issue,
fearing the result. But those who
have been digging under the surface
say that the National league men
had other motives, hitherto conceal
ed. In disclosing the facts therefore
a former major league manager said:
Greed and Jealousy.
"Greed and Jealousy have some
thing TO do with the case. Last fall
when the owners of the Pittsburghs
and Detroits were dividing big
money accruing from the worlds
series other club owners turned
green with envy. While the Pirates
and Tigers were playing nine games
the ball parks of IA other major
league clubs got nothing. But the
latter had to pay salaries to the.r
players up to Oct. Is just the same,
which was hardship.
Rather than remain idle again
next year during the same period in
October therefore the magnates,
with one or two exceptions, are will
ing to do away with the worlds
series in order to gather in every
dollar in sight just as long as II is
possible"
Then there's another reason
which is based upon fact. The much
talked of umpire bribery scandal has
been a bitter pill for the magnates
to swallow. Not until this mess was