The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-28
SURE OF SUCCESS
InterIeague Series Will Help
Big Minors Hold Interest.
$4,000 Purse Will Keep Play
ers on Their Toes.
CBY JACK VEIOCK.)

New York, March 2S.-The inter-
league series between the clubs OF the
International league and the Amer1-
can association next fall is bound TO
attract The attention of fans all over
the country.
These two big minor leagues have
long been rivals. Both have LAID
claim to the supremacy in minor
league circles for years. and in addi-
ton to this long standing rivalry the
ter-sectional nature of the series
will naturally boost interest.
The inter-league schedule shows
the series opening in American aSSo'
citation territory on August with the
teams playing as follows:
Toronto at Columbus.
Montreal at Toledo.
Rochester at Indianapolis.
Buffalo at Louisville.
Newark at Milwaukee.
Providence at Kansas City.
Baltimore at Minneapolis.
Richmond at St Paul.
Play 3-Game Series.
The International leaguers will re-
main in association territory until
each team has played a three game
series in each city, after which the
A. A. teams will travel east to play
a like series along the Atlantic sea-
board. The opening engagements in
the east starting on August 81, will
be as follows:
Columbus at Toronto
Toledo at Montreal
indianapolis at Rochester.
Louisville at Buffalo.
Milwaukee at Providence.
Kansas City at Newark.
Minneapolis at Baltimore.
St Paul at Richmond.
With a purse of $4,000 to fight for,
the players IN the two leagues will
have quite a plum dangled before
their eyes Each league will put up
$4,000, or half the purse, and the
league which wins the series will
capture the entire purse. which is to
be divided among the eight clubs of
the winning league.
The fact that players salaries will
be going on as in the regular season
makes the purse money pure velvet
for the winning leaguers, and with
the big series to look forward to
every club in both leagues will be on
it's toes thruout the regular sched-
ules of 112 games.
Make Races Hotter.
The added interest which will
spring up among the players is con-
fdently expected to make the pennant
races in the two leagues much hotter
than they have been in years past.
The club owners feel assured that
the series will be big success.
Never before in the history of baseball
have two leagues been scheduled to
II out LOT the WILL
their full strength represented. The
annual battle for the worlds cham
pionship between the pennant win
ners of the National and American
leagues is a great classic, but it does
not always indicate the supremacy of
either league as a whole. For in
stance, series between all clubs in
the two major leagues might bring
about surprising results. The Ameri
can league, generally acknowledged
much stronger than the National.
might very easily lose it's standing in
such a series.
Gain Much Prestige.
The winning league in the coming
series between the two minors will
naturally gain great prestige, regard
less of the fact that the Pacific Coast
league is also rated as a class A or
ganization. And the opportunity to
see new teams and new faces in a Sc
ries which will be played for big
stakes is going to prove magnet for
the fans. With the scenery chang
ing every four days, the fan who gen
orally loses interest in a pennant race
about the middle of August will be
lured to the park. And he will get
his moneys worth