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
v Johnson. president Of the
American League announced
Yesterday that he is opposed to the
scheme of having an interieague Sc
RES in the fall, with sixteen clubs in
stead of two competing for the worlds
championship.
Wherefore you viii probably hear
no more of said scheme. Anything
that is distasteful to the large and
louUaCious Ban ~ at once rendered
null and void so far as organized ball
is concerned.
In this instance Ban is right. The
scheme was scheme fathered by
Garry Hermann. president of the
Cincinnati Reds, so that his club. ana
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 1T
would prove nothing. As Ban John
son says it would remove the finan-
cial incentive for teams to win their
league pennants. 1t would make
Joke out of the sea son race The tail
ender would not care whether 1t was
tail eulcr or not. because il would get
In on the division just the same.
You can not blame Hermann for
wanting to see such a system ia
vogue. He has never had "A winner.
ana has had to sit back every year
and 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 q better show
~ getting some of that Worlds Series
money II he kept out of the manage
ment 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 il is mighty seldom that he
makes move that IS not popular He
appreciates fully the Importance OF
the Worlds Series TO baseball. and
there is no danger of the present srs-
Gem heins abandoned as long as John.
son fdvors it.
:, NDSONE 'AROLD MCCORMICK,
a Late pinch hitter Of the Giants
! and now manager of he CHATTANOOGA
7 club Of the Southern League has de-
! cided to leave the worlds tour very
| nat. His new duties will require all
| his time between now and the opening
Of the baseball season OF 1914 and
probably much If his time after that
/ Haroid's friends We're somewhat as
| lonished by the announcement that he
, had become real live manager. but
they all wish him success. and will be
watching the box scores Of the South
ern League next season for that ia
mliHr asterisl>. Mccormick batted
| for Hoozis in the ninth"
T - said that j. HOOKS Wiltsa the
demon Erst baser, could have be
come ma ger at Mobile. vice Michael
I3nn resigned, but something inter-
Nened to prevent him taking the Job
mat finally fell to Bris Lord Mike
! Finn expects to have a number OF
prospective New York Giants with
him at Memphis including Theodore
Goulait, pitcher who IS 10 be trans
formed into an outfelder. McGraw
may also help Mccormick out with a
few recruits later on. and it is almost
certain that the presence Of Hand
some Harold a Chattanooga will take
the Giants there for an exhibition
game next spring.