The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-13
BASEBALL SEASON |S. NOLONCER CONF|N NED. ID SUMMER MONTHS.
Diamond Game Can Now Be Indulged in for Twelve Months of the Year.
 Magnates Busy

New York. November 12-The base ball season is no longer confined to those balmy months during which it , is a pleasure to get out on the dia- mond and play the game either for
 fun or for financial rewards. It can
 now be indulged in for 12 months in
 every year if one considers the play
 CT and the magnate as integral parts
 of the national sport.
 The player begins his activities in
 February with his preparations for
 spring training and completes his al lctted tasks with the close of the worlds series about the middle of Oc- tober. Just as soon as the player has housed his bat for the winter the magnate unpacks his tool kit and pro ceeds to take the machine apart and before it is assembled satisfactorily the call of the southern training camp is heard throughout the land.
 As a result of this feverish activity the coming winter promises to be a | banner one for the magnates. Even before the worlds series was finished the nervous club owner and executive thought he detected knocking in the baseball engine and today he has his tools all laid out in shiny rows ready
 
 major leagues.
 Notwithstanding the fact that the two pennant races were closely con- tested right up to the final days or the season and the worlds series es- t&blished new records in attendance, gate receipts and players profits, there are numerous suggestions put forth With the idea of improving the status
 of the sport. These cover wide range of proposed changes and if half Of them are put into effect the grand old game is facing a series of renovatlons which will be revolutionary.
 President John K. Tener of the Ma tional league states that the player limit in the senior association must be raised from 21 to 25 in order to give the pennant winner chance in the worlds series President B. B. John sen of the American league demands a lowering of worlds series ucket prices. Other prominent magnates thlnk | that the players receive too much | money from the series while players who do not get into the final believe l that they should have share of the receipts as we'll as the club owners. One prominent player suggests that | the pennant races could De maoe more exciting by dividing portion or the | players share among the mempers or | the clubs to finish second ana thiru
  1 mates take an opposite view ana pro | pose that each player on the winning worlds series club be paid Slooo ana the losers $500, the remainder to De
 divided among the clubs and the na- l tionaI commission. Still another WouId 1 divide the receipts on basls or o0 and 20 per cent for both players and 1 owners.
 New schemes for both the league nennant races and the series are also advanced. One calls for two seasons | the first ending on July and the sec
 ond September 15, with the winning l clubs meeting in final nine games to | decide the club to represent the ieas ue 1 in the worlds series. Ahother ouiu l cut the schedule to 9S games, to be 1 followed by a round-robin worlds se- i ries in which every club in each league would play one or more games With | the teams of the rival assoclatioh. | In addition to these suggestions DIE | circuit gossip is already busy selilhG | and shifting clubs in both the Aineri = | can and National leagues. u Woulc | appear therefore that the magnates will not be idle during the next few l months and it may be that some new 1 parts will be incorporated before the | baseball motor starts on it's l9lt sflho
 
 | Blowing cotton from one department
 to another through suitable tupes is l the latest employment of compresse1 air in manufacturing plants. In one | instance California felt manufac- ] turer makes use of compressed air for conveying damp wool from the SCOUT 1 ing plant squeezers to another build ing across the street in which are
 located the sun-exposed drying rooms