Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-27
EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE
 UNDESIRABLE FEATURES.
Attending Worlds Series Contests
 League Pennant Winners.

Another baseball season has closed and only the records remain to p1O- claim the proWess of player and club in Americas national sport. Consid- cred broadly, 1913 produced play fully up to the standard of previous years, but no appreciable step forward could be detected The game appeared to hold it's own in popularity speed and technic but did not surpass the record of recent seasons in this respect The worlds series with it's attendant ticket scandals, scrambIing and bick- erings created the usual interest but did little Or nothing to advance pro- feSS1onal baseball or elevate the plane of the sport. In fact many of the cleyerest of the club owners and the wisdom of the poSt-season climax in it's present form. The play-of for the worlds championship under the present system is felt to hold a menace of more or less gravity to the future of baseball by some of the best in- formed men connected with the game.
 The idea of a sportsmanlike series of contests to decide the title honors of the year is apparently lost in the wild scrambling for the enormous gate receipts and the attendant side emolu- ments that accrue to players and club owners. Those stockholders whose teams do not share in the distribution of the prize money view with chagrin the division of many thousands of dollars among the more fortunate. Fans who are unable to secure seats for the games rail at the coupon dis tribution politics of the competing clubs and all in all there is more dis satisfaction at the close of the season than elation.
 All this has been brought home yividly to the national commission and the magnates of both the National and A o1.i0 1aac nd iC ment on foot to discover a substitute season climax that will leave less jeal- ousy and heartburning than at present. What is particularly desired is a form of interIeague series that will permit all clubs and players to participate in the financial benefits and the fans of many cities to enjoy the spectacle without being obliged to stand in line 24 hours or pay ticket spectators fabulous prices for a $2> seat coupon A resume of the seasons play finds the following clubs winner of the worlds series and the various major and minor league pennantS:-
 Worlds champions Philadelphia Athletics; National league, New York; American league, Philadelphia; In ternationa1 league, Newark: American association. Milwaukee; Federal league Indianapolis; Ohio State league. Charleston; Nebraska league, Kearney; Wisconsin-IllinO league Oshkosh; Western Tri-State league, Walla- Walla, first season; Boise, second sea- son. . Indiana Illinois Iowa league, Quincy; Michigan State league, Man 1stee; Union association, Great Falls; Appalachian league, Johnson City, first season; Knoxville second season; Virginia State leagAe, Petersburg: Texas league, Houston: New England league, Lowell; New York State league Binghamton; South Michigan league, Battle Creek Twin-State league, Northampton; Kentucky Indiana Ten nessee league, ,Paducah: Southern league, Atlanta; Eastern association, Hartford; Central league, Grand Rap ids New York New Jersey league, Long Branch; North Carolina league Winston: Tri-State league, Whining ton; Empire State league Naldosta first seasoon:~ ThomasVille, second season; Texas Oklahoma league, Dennison; Canadian league, Ottawa; Central association, Ottumwa: South Atlantic league, Savannah. first sea son: Savannah, second season; North ern league, Winona; Georgia Alabama league. Gadsden: Interstate league, Erie, Cotton States league Jackson.