The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-10-20
CLOSED
BUT RECORDSOF
GAMES REMAIN
REVIEW OF BASEBALL YEAR RE-
VEALS FACT THAT 1918 SEASON
PRODUCED PLAY FULL UP TO
STANDARD OF PREVIOUS YEARS
WITH NO APPREcIAsLE FOR
WARD STEP.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

of player and club in Americas ma
tional sport. Considered broadly, |
1913 produced play fully up to the
standard Of previous years, but no ap-
precaable step forward could be de-
tected. The game appeared to hold
It's own I'm popularity, speed and
technique, but did not surpass the
record of recent seasons in this re-
spect.
The worlds series with it's attend
ant ticket scandals, scrsmbling and
chickering's, created the usual interest
but did little or nothing to advance
professional baseball or elevate the
plane of the sport. In fact many of
the cleverest of the club owners and
lea que officials are beginning to doubt
the wisdom Of the post-season climax
in it's present form. The pIay-of for
the worlds championship under the |
present system Is felt to hold a men |
ace of more or less gravity to the fu- |
ture of baseball by some of the best |
informed 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 emol- |
uments that accrue to players and club !
owners Those stockholders whose I
teams do not share in the distribution |
OF the prize money view with chagrin /
the division of many thousands OF dol !
lars among the more fortunate. Fans /
who are unable TO secure seats for the |
games rail at the coupon distributing |
policies Of the competing clubs and all
in all there is more dissatisfaction at
~, HIafinn
All this has been brought home Wv
idly to the national commission and
the rnagnates of both the National and
American Leagues and there is n
movement on foot to discover sub
stit1lte season climax that viii leave
less jealousy and heartburnlns than at
present What is particularly desired
lis form Of interleaEUe series that
win permit all clubs and players 70
participate in the financial dement's
and the fans Of many cities to enjoy /
the spectacle without being obliged to
stand in line twenty four hours or pay
ticket SPECTATORS fabulous prices for
a two dollar seat coupon.
Various Pennsnt Winners.
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;
Internat ional league, Newark: Ameri-
can Association, Milwaukee; Federal /
league, Indianapolis; Ohio State league
Charleston; Nebraska league, Kear-
ney; Wisconsin, Illinois league, Osh-
koxh Western Tri- State league, Wal
second /
season: Indiana Illinois, Iowa league, /
Quincy: Michigan State league, Ma
nistee: Union Association, Great Falls; |
Appalachian league, Johnson City first |
season, Knoxville second season; Vir-
GINA State league, Petersburg; Texas |
league, Houston; New England league,
Lowell: New York State league, Bing
hamton; South Michigan league, Bat
tie Creek: Twin state league, North
hampton: Kentucky Indiana Tennes-
see league, Padu cab; Southern league,
Atlanta: Eastern Associa ton, Hart
ford; Central league, Grand Rapids;
New York New Jersey league, Long
Branch; North Carolina league, Wins
ton: !Tri-State league, Wilmington; !
Empire State league, Valdosta first
season, Thomasville second season;
Texas Oklahoma league, Denniscn;
CANADIAN ledBuS- OLtd"ds tSuAI5A d. ]
ISOLATION, Ottumwa: South Atlantic
league, Savannah first season, Savan-
nah second season: Northern league,
winona; Georgia Alabama league,
Gadsden: Interstate league, Erie; Cot
ton States league, Jackson.
First Cup Liter.
While British and American yachts
men are preparing to spend half a mill
lion dollars to win or retain possession
of the America cup, he old schooner
that captured the trophy, originally
known as the Queens cup, floats in
the sluggish tide Of Fort Point chan
mel, beside the South Station in Bos-
ton The America is owned by former
Butler Arnes Of Lowell
who inherited her from his gTandfath-
CT, Gen. Benjamin r. Butler.
Every school boy knows that after
her famous exploit in English waters,
the America became a Confederate ,
blockade runner under the name Mem ;
phis, and was scuttled in the st. Johns ,
river, Fla, during the war. The fed :
eraI government raised her, and subse-
quently Gen. Butler purchased the old
va chit. She. has been replanked sew
eral times, and her interior fittings in
GLIDING many of her frames, have been I
but her model is practically {
the same that James Steers designed 1
81 years ago.
The America was last in commission J
in 1901, when she swung for several ! 9
days inside the Horse Shoe at Sandy I
Hook at the time Of Sir Thomas Lip I
toms second cup lifting attempt with
Shamrock IL on one side and Columbia
on the other. Before leaving for Eu
rope last month Col. Ames was asked