Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-03
TO STOP BIG SERIES
Herrmann'S Plan for an inter-
league Schedule Grows
in Favor.
GREED FOR GOLD AT FAULT
Present Attitude Of Players Toward
Commission Expected to
Kill the Goose.
GREED FOR GOLD AT FAULT

NEW YORK. October 3.-Greed fol
gold in connection with the worlds series
will result In the abandonment Of the
games after this year, according to infor
| nation obtained from Trustworthy sources
The present wrangle between members OF
the Giants and the Athletics and the ma.
tional commission because Of the rule
prohibiting series players from writing
or allowing the use of their names oveI
newspaper stories will result in radica,
reform, it is said. The additional fac,
that out of sixteen major league clubs
only four have shared in the world
series spoils since 1909 is causing wide
spread jealousy and dissatisfaction The
New York National League clubs refusal
to pay over % per cent of it's share of the
1912 worlds series to the other clubs in
the circuit has increased a feeling that
base ball needs thorough shake-up.
The attitude of the Base Ball Players
Fraternity in opposing the commission in
its fight against the player author evil is
another reason for extreme bitterness on
the part of leading magnates. 1t is point
ed out that if by means Of legal procedure
~
write for newspapers compel the COM
mission to rescind the new rule for this
series only the fraternity will claim much
of the credit and will decide to make
holder demands for Justice"
Unless one side or the other backs
down on the play-author question, there
fore trouble of serious nature is in
evitable. With nearly 100000 in re-
ceipts, the coming series is likely to warp
the judgment of base ball men usually
level headed and conservative. In fact,
if the commission should vote to declare
the series off Monday 1t Is a question now
whether the players and their employers
would obey the mandate. Should the
commission be defied organized base ball
would soon be a memory.
With the situation threatening disorder
comes August Hermann, chairman of
the commission and owner of the C1ncin-
natl club, with a suggestion which isn't
new. but is feasible and may be adopted
in December, in the opinion of well in
formed base ball legislators. Hermann
plans to do away with the worlds series
in SO far as it involves but two major
league clubs.
AS a substitute Hermann would have
an entirely now schedule adopted, con-
sisting of liz games in each major league,
to be followed by an interleague schedule
of sixty-four games. by which each Ma
tional League team would play four
games at home and four abroad with
each American League team.
The total winning percentage for the
two schedules would determine the title
of the worlds champions Hermann ar
CUES, and from the receipts of the sixty
four interleague games Il certain percent
age could be set aside to be divided ac-
cording To s.ioing scale among the
vocates of the plan. and they include
majority of the clubowners in both
leagues. believe that the general interest
in each pennant race, which usually
slumps after July 4, would be kept up
by the interleague contests to the wind
up in October.
Gate moneys would be increased all
around, and it would be impossible for
two clubs to monopoliZe a three-hundred-
thousand-dollar plum each fall. Players
under the new order of things would not
go money mad, and wholesale betting,
which is fourishing at present. would be
greatly reduced.
In short many of the magnates. not
growing arrogance of the players. to-
gether with the grasping methods of their
employers. The whole question, which
strikes at the very foundation of the
national game. will be thoroughly dis
cussed at the winter sessions of the big
leagues. If the base ball legislators see
fit to abolish the worlds series after this
year the blame will rest almost entirely
with the players, who have kindled the
flames. That is the way the men behind
the guns look at the matter