Arizona republican., 1912-12-08
Plan to Weave Schedules of National and American Leagues Into One Grand Worlds Series Is Not Entirely Original.
WITH CHAIRMAN OF
 NATIONAL COMISH
One Bill Hannah, Light weight of Lowly League Fame Was First to Advo- cate Project Which May Hit Ill Decade Or So.

Garry Hermann is a pIagiarist That is all there is to it. But pia- giarist does not mean any new fangleil religion, no, not hardly. Plagiarist is the terrible cuss word that applies to people who steal some ones thunder, their words, ideas, plots themes, anything that can be capitalized in tie writing world. If it were not so dig nified q word, plagiarist coI.i be ap- piled to newspaper man who as- sumes possession of and otherwise takes the words of some other man and calls them his ownest own. Now that the word is explained it is to mann came by the term.
 As was recounted at some lengfl in The Arizona Republican Sport Sec ton a time or so ago, Hermann pre- posed a certain alliance between inc two great baseball leagues 1t was part of his plan so to coagulate the diamond talent of the United States as to dp away with all chance for q fuss over the result of the world S series. s0ne section of the proposed measure provided for the interchange of games between the American and National leagues, so the different con tenders for the worlds title might have sounder basis for their claim 10 it's ownership Along with a number of startling charges of graft. crookedness and other troublous things. the affairs of the two major leagues were thought ripe for the consolidation of schedules-a daring change in the manner of conducting sbaseball-but like a surprising num- Der of strange things. also good one. So Hermann proposed it all in an interview to big New York paper
 Now comes the charge of a prom inent sport writer Hermann took his idea for the. consolidation Of. the National and American league sched- ules into one, from one Billy Han- nan, a baseball manager in the minor leagues. whose very position outside the pale of big league business ex cluded his project from serious con- sideration by the magnates.
 Now. the lay of Hannah is some what as follows. Bill started out as secretary of the Norfolk club of the Virginia league in 1906 About four years ago he gave vent to the same identical idea, it went the rounds of the sensational sport sheets and was finally laughed to death by the jokesterss among the baseball scribes. It's early demise was due in part to the fact that it was sprung at an unfavorable time. and partly because the originator was not one of the high and holies of major league base balldon, in plain United States. a big league magnate. Hannah later went to boss the outlaw Tidewater league, where he continued in a desultory fashion to advocate the stringing together of the schedules of the two big leagues Long and loud laughter greeted his every attempt to insert ment of the leagues. His little flock of clubs was scattered and broken by the wolves of finance, and the ruin increased his standing as a joke.
 Garry's proposal received more at tention than did that of Hannah. Some of those stern critics of things sporting have even emitted grunt "Huh.1 concerning it, but whether favorable or not it is impossible to judge.
 One writer of solid name says. All though Hcrrmanns is the same sug- gestion as 'Hannans. with new idea tackled onto it, it is doubtful even though it comes now from a higher source. if the plan will dc , more than fill space for season or so: but in decade from now, watch l it become part of the gameN