The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-06
CHECKBO0k RAGE 1. FOR PENNANT MAY
 STOP NEXT SEASON

The grand little sport of trying to, buy a pennant so lately instituted in the American League, is in for a dras- tic bit of legislation when the mag mates congregate around the Hot Stove this coming winter, unless something goes awry. Ban Johnson ist going to have his work cut out for him in smoothing over some of the deals that have been pulled off in his circuit this season. itTfs said on excel lent authority.
 Several club owners. particularly in eWashington and New York are going to present some mighty strong argu- ments against a few nagnafes with a lot of money being permitted to corner all the stars in the league and make a one two or three-sided affair. of the race.
 The third weeIe in September found two teams in the American League still in the pennant shunt-Bo and Detroit. Each of these teams have been reinforced by recognized stars this season, bought from other American League clubs. with the. re- suit that they have been way out in front most of the season, and the fans in the cities whose stars have been sold are sore. And they can't be blamed According to this theory. John D. Rockefeller could bring a pernant to Cleve1and every year.
 Tn justice to Detroit, however, it
 
 didn't unIoosen the purse strings until he was forced to in :. self-defense. Charles Comiskey of the White Sox, whose sportsnanship has never been queSuoned.4 started the merry little warSof dollars by buying Eddie Collins from the financially embarrassed Athletics for $50. 900. When Collins didn't add the necessary punch to
 make the Sox pennant winner, the l Old Roman went out and paid s1o5000 for Eddie'ss former team-mate, Eddie Murphy. .-sss9-zz- and Comiskey took Memo Beibold from the Cleveland club at the waiver price To top off this amazing bit of baseball financing, he bought Joe 1 Jackson from the same club for a price said to be. approximately $20s- 900. Itt's a question whether the Old Romans ambition to bring pennant to the South Side fans hasn't run away with his Judgment
 President J7ann1n of the Red Sox
 kicked in with SIC, 900 for JACK Barry l immediately after Collins was sold to
 Chicago. Lastly, the Tigers bought r Bill James from the Browns at a re-
 puted price of 15.000.
 There are several cities in the John l son loop that needed bo1stering5 up, 1 and one of them is New York. Rup- pert and Huston, the new owners, are l making Q game effort to do it, but l theysf re getC1ug little help from the i league. Another is Washington, and i another is St. Louis, W4a@we Branch
 Riceey is trying to build up a team in I accordance with the time-honored
 method. Naturally. letting three clubs corner the market isn't going to make 1 any great hit with American League Supporters in those cities. The howl
 raised in New York is still echoing. Not only does it make the fans in
 the unlucky cities temporarily sore, l but destroys what is far more essen tial to the game-pub1ic confidence, in l it's honesty and sportsmanship, and ii
 is generally accepted that sporting
 rivalry is the heart of the game. One of the many remedies suggest l ed for this latest evil is not to let any
 club dispose of player to another l club after June 2-or after the real I pennant chase gets started. It is l practically certain that something ! will be done, in any event.