The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-08
NEWS }
 OF REAL INTEREST
Great Interest in Battle Between Cobb and LajOie For
 Hitting HOnOrs
Big Series and Runner up Series
 Now the Big Talk

Ty Cobb looks good to win that auto. Yesterday the demon clOute4 added two more hits to his total, while Larry Lajoie was laying off be- cause his team was unable to play and Cleveland have two games yet to play, the contests today and to- morrow. Detroit is playing with Chi cago and Cleveland with St. Louis. Cobb ..... 14o 5o5 1s4 -ss4
 Both New York clubs finish in second place in their respective lea gues. The Giants were put out of the danger zone by winning from Brooklyn on Thursday while the Pirates were losing to Chicago The terday, that is Detroit made it secure for them by losing to the White Sox. The Tanks game with the Athletics was postponed because of rain. The big series are always figured on to furnish comparison. between the partisans, of each have double opportunity to weigh the merits of the playing in either. It is the first and and the her runners up have engaged in series. Last year it was the pen nant winners in each league and the theird placers who played. Then It was the Pirates who won from the Detroits, while the Bostons Ameri- cans had a cinch with the Giants Kalamazoo has won the pennant in the South Michigan league by phony methods. The club finished the season by winning five games in two days from one of the other clubs in the league. A play off series of seven games were arranged, Kala- mazoo yesterday winner her fourth game. t-.~. .---.--.
 Jim McAleer. who put Washington on the baseball map this season has signed a two years contract to man age the same club. No longer can the humorists write. First in war, first in peace, but last in the Ameri- can league
 Philadelphia fans were just little shaky this morning when they read of the Chicago-Pittsburg game yes terday Three Fingered Brown held the Pirates to two hits, shutting them out To.
 Arthur Irwin, the Highlanders' scout, who is a close student of base ball politics, says the time is not far distant when the major league will play a series among themselves. He predicts that after two Western and each league and each club has play ed fourteen games with every other club in the same circuit the two sea- sons will end and the two leagues will come together in a. champion ship series, each American League club playing eight gam es with each National League c1ub.s This arrange ment, which has been strongly advo- cated by Garry Hermann and other progressive club owners, Irwin says would renew the interest in the sport and would enable fans in all the major league cities to witness games with all the clubs.
 Take New York, for instance" said Irwin yesterday. The Gian nts would play seven games at home with all the National League clubs and along about the middle of August they would begin playing all the American League teams, four with eacn ht lh@ 91d pIl9 b Gronnda. n1a1+ d9 aq that that baseball for the public and increased gate receipts for the club owners. The records of games won and lost in each league could be combined and the finish would afford many in teresting situations. As it is now in many of the cities public interest is at a low ebb after the first of Sep tember because the fans grow tired of the same old faces.''