The Detroit times., 1909-12-20
AMERICAN LEAGUE
MUST CHANGE
SCHEDULE
y NJ
Will Be Under Great Disadvantage
In Many Ways If National Plays
1853 Games To Its l54 IN
Coming Season.
Fandom in General Would Like To
See Bans League Follow Suit
OF Older Organization
aY PAUL y. eRuskE.

BY PAUL n. BHOSNe'
In the furry attending the election
of a president at the National leasue
recent meeting In New York, the lac'
was generally lost sight OF that Mr
Brush and his pals succeeded In Car
rying their point on the scheduie iuae
Ter. raising the total OF games ON th'
regular seasons program from loi e
l6s.
For the first time since the Amer.
can and National leagues became re2
rivals the two organizations VIII
unless one side or the other chooses
IN amend It's action OF the past wee
play seasons Of varying length. 4 ne
American had decided teW days 'd'
ner to stick to the old program
Conditions are still further agsra
waited by the fact that the l'asues
viii open simultaneously on Aprh -
The Americans season VIII run aoou'
IN oct 6. while the National VIII Keep
riaying until Oct. le.
How About Worlds Series
Were Il not for the fact that the
two leagues arc bound TO match their
penuant winners in post-season
series for the worlds championship
the American league could anord "a
sit back and regard the year Ia lHe
National as an interesting experiment
With the worlds series ahead. no"
ever. the situation becomes bit com
plicated. ~
II would hardly be good pohcy loi
the American league 10 leave its cnaih-
Mons idle for nearly two weeks PRIOR
TO its big test. Nor would IL De Az
yantageous 10 allow its rival 10 mo
nopolize the lImelight for the same
period preceding the cruciai contest
To avoid this condition IL would surely
no advisable either 10 rescind the ac-
tion agreeing to stick 10 iS4 games
and prolong the schedule 10 the same
length as that Of the National league
.or else To SO arrange the plan Of play
ne IN lengthen the season TO similar
date nv leaving a number OF days open
through the progress of the year.
In general. fandom would welcome
q longer season. Baseball is develop
ing steadily and has been gaming "
popularity every year. The memory o
the present generation does not nav,
IN he stretched 10 recall the old l54
game scheduled Of the National league
and this was one which provoked tht
came comments which the propose
1es-pame card does now. The people
like the game. the interest Is as well
sustained now with l5i contests as II
Was in the old DAYS with a lesser num-
her and the prospects OF iuclemeht
w,atber according To the observation
NJ the past five years are not much
&c
garded as a genuinely mellow mon' y
and those who have advocated latei
opening Of the season. combined "l'lI
later closing. have had plenty OF
arguments in the manner in Whlch 'he
weather has deportcd itself since the
Tigers have been pennant-winning
Would Dodge Hoodoo Week.
Not until December had Detroit
been forced 20 contend with a week
as cold As the one in which the world 8
series was concluded here and the OK
rerieuces OF 1909 were almost identi-
cal with those of the three preceding
years There may or may not 20
something uf the hoodoO nature con
nected with tho second week IN Octo-
Der If the revised schedule viii en-
able the worlds series To escape this
period. fandom in general viii he the
huge gamer. On the other hand. The
middle of April. when the leagues both
open their season. is almost always
chill and inhospitable in this locality.
Neither the American nor National
leagues has yet acted finally on the
schedule proposition and there Is still
annie time for a revision Tho hest
Interests OF the baseball public of the
American league would almost un-
nuestlonably be subserved by the pro
longation OF the schedule 20 coincide
with that of the National league