The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-11
MINORS NEED STlnUlANT
BUSINESS ON THE Sum
by HAMILTON.
United Procs STAFF Correspondent.

glad TO see the end OF the season.
Just as they we're tickIed when they
wound mp business q year ago. Base
ball in the minors. apparently. has
seen It's best days. A year aEo when
business was dun the whole thing
was laid 30 the Federal league. and
everyone was happy; this year busi-
ness Is again dead. out there is no
one with a good explanation for H.
However there is QUO phase OF the
baseball business which probably
applies nearer to the case of the
minor Lacquer than any other. Minor
leagues have nothing to play for eS-
cept the empty honor-to the pro-
| fessional athlete-of winning n tro-
ply, the pennant OF his particular
league. denoting the championship.
In the major leagues this is differ
ent. Each year there Is a hot G.
TO the end of the season and two
best clubs then get together in a Sc
ries for the worlds championship.
The players get their share of the
! gate receipts and some city gets the
honor of being the home of the
worlds baseball champions.
There Is the remedy In the minor
leagues. If some way might be de-
vised for the minor leagues to play
a worlds championship series it
| would give stimulus 20 the game In
the lower classifications. There
| would be a driving fight among the
| various clubs to get into this title
play and the big games would put
many n dollar into the Golfers of the
minor magnates. Even IL they only
broke even on the heavy expense OF
n trip to the city where the games
were staged they would have the
velvet from a season of hot competi-
ton and interest aroused among
| the fans.
For some time there have been
desultory efforts by minor league
lmagnates to decide the minor league
championship. For several seasons.
when Denver was p%ennant winner In
1.-THE Western league and Milwaukee
and Minneapolis carried away hunt
ings in the American association,
| the respective club n got to-
| gether and arranged a title series.
| There was quite a bit of interest,
but the seriaJ was o. failure because
the national commission of the ne
| tionaI association had nothing TO do
with 1t and a pennant was not
awarded.
Several suggestions regarding a
| series OF this sort have been brought
out. A prominent club owner in the
Western league some time & prom
Used II his club va fortunate enough
to win the pcnnant in that league, TO
take It to tho Pacific coast for a
series with the Pacific Coast league
champions. Unfortunately. his club
did not win and this series was not
played. AT that time he suggested
a plan which would bring together
the Glass A ard AA pennant win
ners in an elimination series which
finally would settle the worlds mi
nor league championship. He ever
suggested that the series be played
annually at Chicago, st. Louis, Kan
sas City or some other centrally To-
Gated city where accommodations
could be obtained for a huge number
of fans and where interest would be
greater. He also said he believed
each pennant winning city could
stage pert of the elimination games
and the final contests played in the
cities whose clubs got into the finals.
However, this would be little help
to the clubs in lower classifications,
and 1t would be manifestly unfair
to them to leave them out. 1t seems
to be a question to be taken up at
the next meeting OF the national as
ISOLATION and the club owner spoken
OF has promised to bring 1t up at
the first opportunity.
EronL Ieha1 n foruer member of