The Detroit times., 1909-12-20
AMERICAN LEAGUE
MUST CHANCE
SCHEDULE
will Be Under Great Disadvantage
In Many Ways Ii National Plays
16s Games To It's l54 IN
Coming Season.
FandOm in General Would Like 10
See Bans League Follow Suit
Of Older Organization
sY PAUL II. BRUsKE.

In the furry attending the election
of a president at the National leasue :
recent meeting In New York, the fact
was generally lost sight of that Mt
Brush and his pals succeeded In car
rying their point on the schedule mat
ter. raising the total or games on the
regular seasons program from l94 20
l6S.
For the first time since the Ameri-
ran and National leagues became Iv4'
rivals the two organizations will
unlees one side or the other chooses
to amend it's action OF the past "SsN
--play seasons of varying length. me
American had decided a Few DAY ca
iier to stick 10 the old prosrah'
Conditions are still further ase'"'
waited by the fact that the leagues
will omen simultaneously on Aprh -
The Americans season VIII run oIeu
simultaneously on ApflI IA ihe
Americans season VIII run anout 10
Oct. 6. while the National VIII Keep
playing until Oct. Is.
How About Worlds Seriesf
Were it not for the fact that th"
two leagues are bound 70 match tholr
nennant winners in post'seasoh
series for the worlds championship
the American league could auofd 10
eit back and regard The year IN 'He
National as an interesting experiment
with the worlds series ahead. now
ever. the situation becomes bt COM
plicated.
II would hardly be good policy iof
the American lea que TO leave It's chaiu-
MONS idle for nearly TWO weeks ploE
To it's big test. Nor would it oe al
vantageous 10 allow its rival 10 mo-
nopolize the limelight for the same
period preceding the crucial contest.
To avoid this condition It would surely
he advisable either 10 rescind tho a'-
ton agreeing 10 stick 10 l5i games
and prolong the schedule 90 the same
length as that Of the Nanonal league
or else 10 SO arrange the plan of play
as In lenetben the season 10 similar
date by leaving a number " DAYS open
through the progress Of the year.
In general. fandom would welcome
a longer season Baseball is develop
ing steadily and has been gaining IN
popuIaritv every year. The memory o'
the nresent generation does not have
10 he stretched 10 recall the old w
game scheduled of the National league
and this was ono which provoked the
same comments which the proposed
1eS- game card does now. The people
like the game. the interest rs as Wen
sustained now With i5f contests as II
was IN the old davs with lesser mum
her and the prospects of inclemcnt
weather. according 20 he observations
OF the past fve years are nov mu'A
Increased October Il generally Ir
garded as . genuinely mellow mon' a
and those who have advocated latet
opening Of the season. combined WIN
a later closing have had plenty oi
arguments in the manner in which the
weather has deported itself since the
Tigers have been pennant-winning
Would Dodge Hoodoo Week.
Not until December had Detroit
been forced To contend with week
as cold as the one in which the world g
series was concluded here and the eX-
periences of 1903 were almost idcnt-
cal with those of the three preceding
wears. There may or may not be
something OF the hOOdoo nature CON
nected with the second week IN Octo-
her If the revised schedule viii en-
able the worlds series To escape TINS
period, fandOm in general viii he thc
huge gamer. ON the other hand tht
middle of April. when the leagues both
open their season. is almost always
chill and unhospitable in this locality
Neither the American nor National
leagues have yet acted finally ON The
schedule proposition and there is suii
ample time for a revision The best
interests Of the baseball public of Tho
American league would almost uu
ouestionably bc suhseryed by the pro
longation OF the schedule 10 coincide
with that OF the National league