Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-27
TO PLAY SERIES.
AS SLATED" BAN F..
Johnson Declares Worlds Title
Games viii Be Staged As Plan
ned or Not At ALL
ANSWERS OWNER BOSTON CLUB
Protest of Harry Frazee Termed
Stacker 0ne-Must Realize
War Conditions.

Chicago, Aug. %. - The 1918
worlds series viii be played &C
cording 10 the schedule announced
by the national commission or not
at all. in spite Of the Stacker pro
test by President F'Tazee Of the
Red Sox. unless the latter can OBJ
tain permission from the war de-
partment for lot of nonessentlal
TRANSPORTATION of baseball players,
and then only by committing the
American league to webbing on
4 straight sporting proposition.
That is the gIst of statement by
President johnson Of the American
league replying TO the Boston club
owners announcement that his
team would not abide by the world S
series schedule recently promulgat-
e.. but insists on retention Of the
CID arrangement whereby only two
consecutive games were played in
either OF the competing cities,
Bans Reply.
Replying to Frazee, President
johnson said.
Responding TO Mr.. McAdoo's re
cent request to the American public
to refrain from all unnecessary
railroad travel and out OF consider
alton for the administration which.
Is d special favor. has made it pos
Sible to play the worlds series, the
national commission decided to de-
part from precedent and schedule
the coming worlds series SO as to
produce d minimum OF railroad
travel
We agreed to play the first three
games OF the series in one city and
tile remaining four, if necessary, in
the other city. and to toss a coin
for the opening. Secretary Bruce
of the national commission tossed
the coin and Mr. Heydler. acting
for the National league, called the
turn correctly. The National league
elected TO open the series in Chi
Cago. provided that team won the
pennaut, which il has done
A Poor Sportsman!
7 do not believe Frazee under
stood the facts or he would have
raised no protest, for | do not think
even he is such a poor sportsman
as to want TO WEIGH on a straight
out and out proposition like that
! wired him the facts, together with
the suggestion that if he could OBJ
tain from the war department per
mission for unlimited transporta-
ton between Chicago and Boston
for baseball players and club own
ers during the first fortnight of
September the commission might
reconsider its arrangements But
I do not know if l would ask the
National league to consider such an
UIsportsmanlike thing even if it
were permitted by the government
4 understand Boston apartments
are to be allowed no artificial heat
Until Dec. l on account of the scar
city Of coal If that is true. Frazee
certainly would not increase his
popularity there by protesting
against our plan to conserve coal
used by the railroads and to use as
few as possible of the engines and
EleepeTs needed by the administra-
ton to move troops and supplies
for the war.
In a Great War.
Some day Frazee will learn that
the United States is engaged in a
desperate war, the winning of
tiers to the American public. His
protest against our plans reeks Of
the dollar sign. The cost of trans
portation between Boston and Chi
cago never entered into the discus
sion in the national commission.
Nor did the matter of playing Sat
CTday and Sunday games, so as to
increase the receipts of the series
Our one thought was to reward
the administration for its consider
alton in permitting the series at all,
by reducing TO the lowest possible
point the waste Of transportation
and man power in staging the con
test for the worlds pennant, and
in that aim We believe we have the
support OF the Boston public as we'll
rs that Of the rest of the United
States"
President Johnson also declared
the commission would discourage
any idea of ro0ters ACCOMMODATING
either the Red SOx or the Cubs from
one city to the other for the games.
Each team, he said. would he eX-
pected to occupy only one sleeper
and 70 conine its personnel and
'fCan0 foTfovp-SF' n that limit