El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-12-19
Chubby" Charles Murphy
Airs Views for the Press

mem owner OF the Chicago Cubs
; does Johnson care II the clubs play to
! losing business2
ten-year-Old messenger boy
knows II is futile TO try to guess
the weather we are going 10 have
next spring. To say that the mid
die of April f. not fit for base
ball is absurd. because Il may be
better than the middle Of May or
June. Who knowss II il all
a guess.
What is known is that more oppor-
tunities 10 make money should be az
Z torded second division club owners
They have to meet their bills the
same as the fellow who wins the flag.
One day / argued with some clue
ON ners in favor Of a shorter schedule
L hear what they would say. 1T is
all very well for you with winner
in Chicago TO argue for fewer games.
how about the fellows in smaller
towns with losing ball clubs" asked
stanley Robinson, Of St Louis.
Don't Need Legislation.
1 soon realized hat legislation IS no
needed for the winner. He viii take
care Of himself. but some aid must be
given the fellow who has q second di-
vision team. That fellow does not
have a second division club because
he wants it, He can't help himself
he knows the advantage Of win
ner, but all eight clubs in the league
can't win the flag
Second division clubs can't
draw crowds after the middle OF
the season unless they offer bar
gains 10 sole extent. In other
words they must have a double
header on n Saturday or sunday
late In the season or they won
'Sdrnw fiies.- With IA IGS-Eume
sehedule they could draw crowds.
The theorists, who have never had
y ell about cheapening the game. A ]
department store can run an excur-
sion- but the very minute the owner I
of a ball club shows some business I
Sagacity and gives evidence of the {
ability TO make money. a lot OF 9th }
ers- not club owners. call him mercen-i
airy and not sportsman II was ever
thus
Why is it that a man in baseball IS
supposed not to make money ASK
me something easy When you make 1
q schedule Of 140 games you take
second division club owner. He IS
losing money now every year and has
overlapping contracts with some OF
MS stars for six months work
What baseball needs Il guild
ance from a business man-not
from a snlaried theOriSt. The
schedules have been rotten for
years when IL came to leaving
bunch Of open dates at the close
OF the year. That was because
not enOu-h games were on the
card to fiji those dates.
Every move that can be thought Of !
5 made by basebalTs salaried men TO
reate more interest in the worlds
cries, because the National Commits
Ion cuts in for 10 per cent Gust
vice as much as IL should EeD. and
hen there is already too much inter
st in the big series and not enough
n the reguarlarly scheduled cham i
lOn ship games which precede the D
.lue ribbon event In the fan. In los &
.ames are scheduled and not all
layed no one is hurt
II they are not scheduled, however, 1
IT. Second Division Club Owner
night as well give mis- club away
nd get from under He can't make a
iCkel out Of the baseball business.
Lease Parks Annually.
Owners have parks leased by the
ear and have players under six
lonths' contracts extending over sew
raj seasons, and any child would see
hat a curtailment of the schedule Il
III mean certain loss TO those own
rs. They must pay their park rent
ao thelT players. salaries and are
enled chances TO get that money l
ack at the gate. That is what cut
ng down the schedule means
! would like to hear COmiskey's
plnlon OF sucha movement He is
he smartest man in the game and
nows something. too. Of the hard
mes that a second division club has l
the smaller cities
The owners want more games-nOt Il
.wer chances 10 make some money. i
his thing OF talking about the
Gather is a joke. Baseball can be
-ayed from the middle OF April %
he middle Of October. and that is all
lere is TO it, y test of years has
lown that No schedule can be ar
lnged that viii eliminate rainy days
the playing season and there viii
course, be pOstpOnments That
lnnot be avoided.
My experience has been such
that this alleged attempt to
shorten the season looks rusuI-
cious. speak advisetlIy when
say II viii put n erinp In the op-
portunittes OF the second division
club owners 20 break even on the
season II is simply rObblnE them
OF the EhHmrr n III