The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-07-29
LEAGUE STANDING
GREATLY MUDDLED
Chief Statistician Explains
that Complete Check-up
Will Have to be Made.

According to an acknowledgement
received from Larry Hodgson, league
secretary, the standings of the North
ern league Is muddled not only In the
newspapers but in the Office of the
president of the organization and a
thorough checking is to be made by
Secretary Hodgson n President Bur-
meister to ascertain the discrepancies.
Hodgson sends out an official
standing which he says will have to
stand until the check Is made. The
standing as given out from St. Paul
disagrees with the figures in the SUI
perior, twin city and other papers
of Superior.
Mr.. Hodgson admits thai his stand
ing may be incorrect due to the fail
ure of official scorers in other cities
to sen in prompt reports of the
games. According to the secretary he
has compiled the standing from re-
ports of games published in the news
papers.
Hodgson writes: Il wish to make
cradle discrepancy between this table
and the table being published in the
daily papers, and while it makes a
difference of but three games in the
total, it necessarily affects the stand
ing considerably where the race is so
close. I have not got all h official
scores from each city. Even if l had
the standing would necessarily be
several days behind. l keep from
day to day the scores of the games
us published in the papers. So far
as ] know these scores r correct.
From these daily scores 1 have made
the accompanying table and two sep
arate checkings have given the same
result.
""The possibility of mistakes is this
some game may have been sent to
the papers so late hat they did not
appear in the paper. If there are any
correct to hat extent. The newspa-
per men say they do not believe this
is likely. I am going to make up a
complete list of all the scores I have,
by days. and e them out to each
city and ask whether any score of
that team is missing from the list. I
Will then see President Burmeister
n with him go over all my scores,
compare them with his reports and
We will arrive at a final standing that
cannot be questioned.
You Will understand that the
chance of mistakes is greater in the
Northern league than in one Of the
big leagues where all the papers pub
lish all the scores all the time. For
instance, the Fourth of July game at
Grand Forks was not reported in the
st. Paul papers, but I got it from
other papers. The reports from
Grand Forks and Virginia are often
late in reaching the papers, one that
7 know of getting to St. Paul after
midnight. This makes a bare chance
that some score may have been lost
without any way of knowing it. 1
make this explanation that you may
know exactly the situation and if this
table appears to. you palpably wrong
You can use your best judgment until
we have made q final check as com
plete as can be made"
In regard to the reports of. the
Grand Forks games being late, it is
only necessary to remember that the
games are played in the evening, and
as a result. they do not reach papers
in the circuit until late that night.
Undoubtedly they have beer too late
for the checking up of the standi.. gs
of several of the morning papers, and
this has caused the discrepancy.