Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-20
CLUB SERIES
IS OPPOSED BY
BAN JOHNSON
Hermann, Who Favored Scheme,
Wants Chance For His Sec
ond Rate Cincinnati Club.
BY Damon Runvon.

NJ EW YORK, oct. 2O.-Big Ban
" Johnson. president of the
American League, announced
Yesterday that he is opposed to the
scheme of having an interleague Sc
ries in the fall. with sixteen clubs IN
stead of two competing for the worlds
championship.
Wherefore you will probably near
no more of said scheme. Anything
that is dista steful to the large and
loquacious Ban is at once rendered
null and void so far as organized ball
is concerned.
In this instance. Ban is right. The
scheme was a scheme fathered by
Garry Hermann. president of the
Cincinnati Reds, so that his club ami
other tail-end clubs could horn in on
the fat pot that is divided every fall
BY the worlds championship contend
ers without going to the trouble OF
building up a real championship team.
A SINTEEN-CLUB competition
a would only increase the confu-
sion which IS bad enough as it is
with only two clubs competing. and Ii
would prove nothing. AS Ban John
son says, ii would remove the finan-
cial incentive for teams to win their
league pennants. 1t would make a
joke out Of the season race. The tail
ender would not care whether it was
tail ehder or not, because it would get
in on the division just the same.
You can not blame Hermann for
wanting to see such a system in
vogue. He has never had a winner,
and has had to sit back every year
ana see other clubs cutting up thou
sands of dollars. Naturally. he is dis
satisfied, but from what Joe Tinker
was quoted as saying not so very long
ago. Garry would have a better show
Of getting some of that Worlds Series
money if he kept out of the manage
nent of his team and let the manager
handle that end"
Johnson keeps his finger on the
pulse of the baseball public better
than any other man connected with
the game. He knows what the fans
want, and it IS mighty seldom that I've
makes a move that is not popular He
appreciates fully the importance OF
the Worlds Series to baseball, and
there is no danger of the present svs-
,em being abandoned as long as,John-
Son fayors it.
{ a NDSOME 'AROLD MCCORMICK.
late pinch hitter OF the Giants
club Of the Southern League has de-
cided to leave the worlds tour very
dat His new duties will require all
his time between now and the opening
of the baseball season Of 1914. and
probably much II his time after that.
Harold's friends were somewhat as
tontshed by the announcement that ne
had become . real live manager. but
thev all wish him success. ard will he
watching the box scores Of the South
ern League next season for that ia
miliar asterisl, "*NeCornlick batted
for Hoozis in The ninth"
7 Is said that j. Hooks Wiltse the
demon first baser, could have be-
come ma mayer at Mobile. vice Michael
Finn. resigned. but something inter
Nened to prevent him taking the lob
that finally fell to Bris Lord. Mike
tfnn expects to have a number of
prospective New York Giants with
Nun at Memphis. including Theodore
Goulait, pitcher. who is 10 be trans
formed into an outtielder. McGraw
may also help Mccormick out with a
few recruits later on. and it is almost
certain that the presence of Hand
some Harold at Chattanooga will take
the Giants there for an exhibition
game next spring