The Washington herald., 1910-10-21

| Telegraph yesterday and q was will
pleasure that We became sponsor for IN,
| movement"
1t mayNSeem hard on some players. bat
each Cub and Athletic player viii receive
more money for lis work IN the world
championship series than mauS players
get In a whole season Whether they win
or lose, the players I'm the big hlow-of
Will get considerably over s. 500 each.
Half OF the games in which the players
figure have been played II the attend
ance figures Tor tho next two games equal
those OF the two already played The win
ners will get $2,0H each. The losers get
twO-thirCs as much
There are thousands NJ players who
would jump at chance 10 play through
out a championship season for less
than the losers share. There are many
IN the big leagues to-day who get Jess
than that The Cubs and Athletics are
supposed 10 be well paid ball players as
clubs go, yet there are men on both teams
who Will get more out OF this series than
they drew down during the regular sea
son.
Talk Of a third big league possibly is
! absurd as Ban Johnson declares. but
that a third big league would have been
organized year ago last spring had the
men originally behind the project stuck
together IS we'll known, says Elmer
Bates, in the Cleveland Leader. The
project then considered contemplated a
combination OF the Eastern League and
the American Association. the seven best
cities in the TWO organizations. with Chi
cage added, forming the new league
Joseph ID. OBrien was then president
Of the American Association. He op-
posed the project and paid for his 10y
atty 20 the established order of things
with his position. Were I 10 let go my
hold on certain club owners In the asso-
citation he said TO the Little Old Man
at that time. this third new league
would be organized in a twinkling. We
have millions of dollars backing and all
the players we need"
Well. the millions are still there and
If the men with the money should hap
pen to make up their minds 70 launch a
new league, who is there 70 say them
nay?
Now, for instance, why could not a
league be formed along these lines. a
new third team located on the North
Side in Chicago. new second team in
Cleveland. Cincinnati, and Pittsburg. and
the present teams IN Toledo, Columbus,
Indianapolis. and Louisville?
That would be the most compact league
ever organized in baseball history. The
presence Of a third team in Chicago
would not be felt at all by the American
and National League clubs i'm that city.
while the schedule could he so arranged
that the new teams in Cleveland, Gin
cinnau, and Pittsburg would only play
when the old league teams were out on
the road, thus giving the fans in these
cities continuous baseball. as the fans
in Chicago. St Louis New York. Boston.
and Philadelphia now enjoy.
Another plan, in no way impractical.
would be for the American Association
and the Eastern League to effect a con-
solidation, putting the seven best cities
in the two organizations into one league
as was once planned. With Chicago add
ed, a league made up of Buffalo. Toledo,
Columbus. Indianapolis, Louisville, and
either Providence and Newark or two
other big Eastern cities. might start its
career under Ear more assuring auspices
than attended Bar JOhnsOns prosperous
organization IN the days of its infancy.
Then, too, what is 70 hinder starting an
absolutely new organization - ike the
Union League of 1854. for instance-if
some man with millions of money 10
throw away is so inclined? Surely, there
is no law TO prevent any capitalist. or
any combination OF capitalists, from buy
ing ball parks. building stands, and en-
ploying ball players in any city in the
land. regardless OF the present situation.
Did not Ban Johnson employ an unfor-
innate word when he declared ali the talk
of a third big league to be absurd"
Less than ten years ago the announced
determination of the American League TO
invade the East was declared TO be both
absurd" and impossible"
There may be no third big league next
season, and then, again, there may Such
a league Is not an absurd" proposition,
nor is such a league Impossible"