The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-12-01
CHANGE INPLAN
Of PLAYING THE
WORLDSSER|ES
LATEST PROPOSAL CALLS FOR
REAL INTER-LEAGUE SERIES
WITH ALL-AMERICAN TEAMS
AND AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAY
ING FOR WORLDS TITLE.
BIZ ASSOCIATED PRESS.


New York, Nov 3o.-As an after
| math of the recent worlds series
a number Of suggestions have
been advanced for revising the pres
| ent system in vogue in the meeting of
the pennant winners of the two major
| leagues each year. Various objections
have been raised by both magnates
and players regarding the round robin
| series as proposed by Garry Hermann
| and other suggestions along similar
| lines. The latest proposal, which
comes from a New England baseball
| authority, calls for a real inter-league
series with all-American teams from
the National and American leagues
playing for the worlds title.
1t is proposed that a committee Sc
lected from the members of the Base
ball Writer'S Association, appoint two
a1l-league teams. one from the Ameri-
can and the other from the National
league, and that these combinations
play a series of nine games for the
worlds championship. each game to
be played in a different city on the
two big circuits. The plan calls for
the choice to be limited to twenty
players in each league. and also would
limit a players eligibility to two years
of such worlds championship play.
The selection of each player would
be made by a majority vote in the
committee and no city would have
more than one representative on such
committee.
The father OF the idea points out that
such plan would provide a series be-
tween the best players of each league
and would thus prove test Of the
playing ability of the two rival organi-
cations. It would further give star
players in second division clubs a
chance to share in the worlds series
money and the fans of the two leagues
in almost every city on the two cir
cults an opportunity to witness at
least one game of each seasons world S
series. From a financial standpoint
the sixteen clubs composing the two
major leagues would all share in the
receipts and the leading players as
WELL BY limiting the eligibility of a
player to two years the way would
be open for new and rising players
to figure in the series.
1t is pointed out that such plan |
would do away with the jealousy and
jeers of those players and magnates
who feel that they are entitled to a |
portion of the thousands of dollars |
now annually divided by the leading |
clubs of the two leagues. Those who |
have heard the scheme explained and
do not approve it, claim that it is too |
Utopian for professional baseball and |
opens the way for charges of favorit- |
ism and wire pulling during the selec- |
ton process. They further contend |
that the interest, being national rather |
than centralized, would result in a |
heavy falling off in gate receipts and |
lead to the eventual collapse of t..
worlds series as the climax of the |
of personal opinions, the fact that J
such a broad plan should have been |
evolved shows that there are baseball
men who do not believe that the pres
ent worlds series is the last work in
Americas national sport
PLANNING FOR YACHT RACE.
Preliminary details for the 1914
yacht race for the Americas cup are
rapidly being completed on both sides
of the Atlantic. Long before the chal-
off the ways, the sailing masters, ship
pers and crews will have been Sc
lected and all plans arranged for the
trial and tuning-up races. both off the
possible cup defenders are assured for
the United States, and one or two
others may be built if those inter
ested can find satisfactory yacht build
ers to undertake the work.
In England the actual construction
of Shamrock W. Sir Thomas Liptons
yacht, was started on No
vember 3, and the 75-footer is ex-
pected to take the water early in
April. Although five months will
elapse before the tuning-up process is
started, English yachting circles are
already busily engaged in discussing
the plans for the test races and the
selection of the crew and officers for
Shamrock ". A prominent yachting
authority, in discussing these preIim-
inaries, says:
I'm the trial races between Sir
Lipton's cutters, the new
Shamrock w. and the old
Shamrock 23-metres, built in 1908, w.
P. Burton will have sole charge of
both the yachts, and will sail the cnal-
lenger assisted by his sailing master,
Albert Turner. The 23-metre will be
steered by Captain Gould, a skipper
who has a high reputation in racingi
circles. That the professional skip
pers whose names are SO familiar to
the matches for the Americas cup