Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-04

AnA season, or, rather, the OPEN
w ing of the winter campaign,
the National Commission is
confronted with some of the most tick
fish problems of it's history.
Universal dissatisfaction is voiced in
baseball circles. 1t seems that the gen.
eral success of the major and large
minor leagues this season has but add
ed to the uneAsiness. While no scam
dals of mOmect have cropped out dur
ing the season, such as marred the
Windup of the National League race q
year ago, there is greater and more
marked i'll feeling among the natural
rivals of the big circuits than at any
time since the war was at it's full. And,
Indirectly, in settling these disputes
and braWls the commission was bound
to give offence in certain quarters.
The Cubs and Athletics, in their re-
spective leagues, are naturally the
most peeved. Charles Webb Murphy OF
all club owners bears greatest malice
toward the triumvirate for the panning
they handed him on that Pfeffer case
But Connie Mack is no less sore on
Ban Johnson than is Murphy at John
A. Heydler and each believes that
anced the trade of Barbeau by Pitts
burg to St Louis for Byrne toward the
close of the season. Mack saws the
swap of Rossman for Tom Jones of the
Browns and Schaefer and Killifer for
Jim DelehantY of the Senators prac-
tically secured the Tigers a third pen
nant.
Joe Cantillon is sore on general
principles because Ban johnson prac-
tically kicked him out of Washington,
and the deposed leader says he is.
ready to prove Washington syndi-
cate club controlled by other Amer
lean League capital Mack and the
other American League clubs are bit
ter at Detroit for losing the third time
in a worlds championship series.
Detroit is sore at Philadelphia for
the charges Mack made against Cobb
when he sniked Baker. Detroit is 70
less antagonistic toward Cleveland for
the arrest of Cobb on a charge of as
saulting a night Waterman in a no
TEL and Cleveland returns the sent-
ment with interest. Altogether there is
a merry row in both family circles that
will take marked diplomacy to
straighten.
Now the National Commission is not
in duty bound to say what trades shall
be made nor when. But in safeguard
ing the game from rrlmor of scandal. it
we'll might put stop to practice in
augurated this season of allowing the
participants in the worlds series to
declare in on the cutup of the profits
players who had been recently traded
to other CluhS Grhaefar of the Sena-
tors was given a share of the worlds
series profits by Detroit. Rarbeau and
Stoke We're declared in by the Pr
rates.
That they would participate in the
cutup was announced when these men
were traded to Washington and St
Louis. respectively. by the champions
That was the time the commission
should have acted 1t is not to the best
interest of baseball that PLAYERS on
one team should be financially interest
ed in the victory of EN- opponent Such
does not tend to un biased effort. The
commission this year put the brakes
on ticket speculation. 1t can go one
better in killing such q weapon against
the fair name of port as the Schaefer,
Barbeau and StorlSe dividends afford
ed.
Not the least of the commissions trou-
bles are likely to arise from the big
minor leagues. The annual belligerent at
titude of the Amerb ,an Association is all
ready manifestng itself in the Middle
West. Chicago is once more excited over
the prospect of an invasion of that city.
President O'BrienL,vll find an able ally in