Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-08
MAGNATEs PLAN TO
LENGTHEN SERIES
Worlds Series Of Eleven Games to
Come Up for Discussion This
Week at New York.
WOULD RUN INTO NOVEMBER
With Present Schedule OF 154
Games, the Idea Is Impracticable.
Would Only Serve to Swell Bank
Rolls of Competing Clubs.
Especial TO Tho Times-pIspatch

Especial TO Tho Times Dspatch.l
NEW YORK, December THE base
ball moguls back OF the plan to ex-
tend the world series from seven to
eloNen games are trying to joke the
dear old public into believing that this
plan was hit upon 80 as to give the
baseball loving public n better chance
to see the games"
The real facts In the matter are that
the magnates want the series extended
to eleven games so they will make
more money out OF the series The
~ ~ t, series was n huge disappointment
games only and the players got the
large bulk of the receipts. The mag
mates don't want such Il thing to hap
pen again.
:. The maEnstes say, that II the series
prices will be reduced. The S. sents
Of the past Will sell ut 81. At first
s,htg s ',, that looks like nice thing for
me Impression. Seven games at s3
per game used to cost the full series
fan only s2l. Eleven games at at 50
fan that attended tho full set OF games
IT would mean 81 extra that goes into
the Golfers of the magnates.
Under the proposed scheme it would
take Blk victories to win the title. 1t
is unlikely that any world series team
could win six straight games. Win
out of ten. The use of pencil and
paper VIII quickly show what Il nice
mates from nine or ten-game series
They would get n divvy with the play
ers IN the receipts of the first six games
ana innn nneR Two would get 80 per cent OF the
the national commisl getting the rest
And the dear public would pay the
freight.
An eleven game series is not prac-
0rRnnIyan ~ cnt,n oil foIl
tinue their lb4-game schedule, which
does not close the regular season un-
III about October s.. That would make
tober TO-. Assuming that the series ran
tho full limit and the contendinE teams
we, were fasteners, Il would mean that
the latter. part of October. it might
even run into November.
Add eleven playing days and two or
Eastern clubs do not play. and YOU
bring the series UP to the twenty-thIrd
or twenty fourth.
productive of bad weatRe rr i pr "5aaai
1t would rain for three days during the
two weeks. which would shift the Sc
RES along the twenty sixth or twenty
one two of those games would re-
suit In ties and would have to be
played over, as the October days are
short. and even though the games
start at o'clock, it Is rarely that teams
can play more than eleven innings.
Figuring In all these little items IT
Will be seen that the series might run
TO October rs. with only two or three
bad days figured In. There might be a
bad spell of weather that would stretch
ever weeks length, as was the case
during 1911. when the players were ma
rooned in Philadelphia for seven days.
Such a happening would send the play.
ers into November to play their
eleventh game.
random likes baseball. 1t will nav
almost any price asked TO see n blue
ribbon battle. And 1t will make many
sacrifices. But it seems unlikely that
random VIII risk pneumonia and other
ailments and ills to attend In force
ball games that arc played In the lat
ter part of October and tho first part
or November, merely to swell the bank
rolis OF the money-hungry magnatcs.