The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-09-22
LOSS.INATTENDANCt
Long Schedule May Cause 1t
In Worlds Series For
Championship
SEASON TOO PROTRACTED
Philadelphia Athletics viii Have to
| Take Layoff Of Week Before Con-
| tests Begin and Cold Weather May
Interfere with Receipts I

tests Begin and Cold weather May |
Interfere with Receipts a
Is the interest m the worlds cham |
pionship series on the wane? Will the |
long playing season adopted by the |
National league affect both the receipts |
and the class of ball in this years |
games? Many fans are bordering over |
these two questions. The facts upon !
which they base any deductions they |
may make are as follows:
In 1909 Pittsburg played its last |
game of the season In Cincinnati on |
Oct Z. Detroit finished It's schedule |
at Chicago on Oct. 8. The playing |
lows:
game game.
American league ......... April IL Oct.
National league .......... April IA oct.
The worlds championship series be-
tween Pittsburg and Detroit began on
Oct. at Pittsburg The full seven
games had to be played, and the last
contest took place in Detroit on Oct. 16.
The schedules for this year are:
First Last
game game.
American league ........ April Ia OCT.
National league .......-.. April IA Oct. 10
Athletics Will Have to Wait.
AS the Cubs and the Athletics are
the winners in their respective leagues,
then the first game of the worlds Sc
ries could not be played before Sunday,
Oct. 16, which would be eight days
after the close of PhiIadclphia's sea
son. Stanley Robson, president of the
st. Louis Nationals. has stated that he
will in no event release the Chicago
team from its late dates with his club,
nor will he allow the games TO be dis
posed of by playing them earlier IN
the season.
This means that if it should become
necessary to play the full seven games
the series would not be completed be-
fore Oct % Moreover, that is max
ing no allowance for such contingen-
cies as rain or the difficulties of suffi-
GENTLY speedy travelling between Chi
cago and Philadelphia 1t is more than
probable that in the event of seven
games the last contest would take
place as late as Oct "a or %. Robi-
son is not apt to recede from his pres
ent attitude, as he fought the longer
season, while Murphy advocated 1t
and finally secured its adoption.
To show how late in the year these
final games might come it is only nee
essary to turn TO the football sched-
ule On Saturday. Oct. %. Yale plays
Vanderbilt university, Harvard plays
Brown, Princeton plays Holy Cross,
and Pennsylvania plays Penn State.
These are all midseason games.
OF course if two eastern or two west
ern teams were to come together the
difficulties of travelling would be OBJ
Waited, but series of this kind would
also lack the universal interest Great
ed by a competition between two diff,
ferent sections of the country.
Layoff Will Not Benefit Philadelphia.
Also it seems most unlikely culmi
nation of the race of 1910. The fact
remains that weeks layoff will be
apt to be of little benefit to Philadel
pilt hllCliIuii iCuSuc
while the Nationals will either have tC
exhaust precious energy in a hairlint
finish or dull the edge of their tor
form by being obliged to play severa
dreary games which it makes no diff
ference to them whether they win OF
lose.
The fourth game of the Pittsburg
Detroit series last year, played in III
gertown on Oct II, was contested oil
frozen field, with the mercury below
the freezing point all during the game
The series this year must probabl.
The series last year totdiei $fSS, 302 .5L
OF this amount $6692490 was tn
players share, $102, 547.35 went to tn
clubs, and the national commission
got $1S.83025.
The games drew $4,000 create
gross gate receipts than any previou
worlds contests. Could this years sc
ries, considering the probable date @
playing, weather conditions and tn
small chance of another seven gam
result, draw anywhere near the sam
money?