The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-17
CLUB OWNERS STILL
FAVOR LONG SERIES
Despite Protests Many Will
Vote to Continue 8 Game
Tilt in Baseball Classic.
ny FREDERICK G. LIEB.


Despite the fact that the nine game
WORLDS series generally was condemned
this fal, strong fight will be made
during the coming winter TO retain the
heightened worlds series schedule. The
writer learned yesterday that there AL
ready has been considerable correspon-
dence between the club owners of both
leagues on the subject, and with a few
exceptions the sentiment is that the nine
game series of 1919 was a great SUCCESS
and should be made a permanent insti-
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So far only Charley Ebbets of Brook
iyn has come out publicly favorine the
retention of the nine game SERIES but
carry Hermann of Cincinnati hasn't
changed his views on the subject. The
other National League men who voted
Tor the change to a nine game series
THIS fall still favor it, and the same may
De SAID for the pro-Johnson faction IN
the American League, whose five yotes
endorsed the project against the wishes
/ or Charles Comis1ey, owner of one of the
contesting clubs
These men present the argument that
the only ones who are knocking the nine
game series are newspapermen who con-
| tlnually are slamming the magnates on
general principles. They contend that
because the baseball writer's wearied OF
| the series they tried to spread the i'm
preston that the general public also was
| boredf
Think Interest Does Not Lag,
! The leading argument that the club
| owners are presenting is the crowd at
| the eighth game in Chicago, which they
| point out was several thousand bigger
than the crowd of the opening game in
| the Windy City, The actual figures
! were 29,l26 for the third game of the
series in Chicago, the first game played
! there, and $3.50 for the eighth game
| played in Chicago, the last of the series
| The magnates are pointing out that
while the writer's kept emphasizing the
| $4,000 crowd in Cincinnati for the sew
enth game as poof of the waning inter-
est in the series, they ignored the eighth
| game crowd in Chicago.
| They further say that wretched han
| ding of the tickets for the last. game in
| Cincinnati was responsible for the de-
creased crowd, also that the dwindled at
tendance was due to a local condition
which might not come again in another
series in years
Another argument which the mag
! mates are advancing to each other il
| that nine game series is necessary for
| the club owners to make anything out OF
| 1t under the new system of dividing
worlds series purses. For the first time
| this year the contending clubs were
! obliged to turn over half of their re-
ceipts to their league treasures Even
| with the eight games played the con-
! tending clubs made only about 5000,
! about the same as the Government war
| tax on the series.
! The leagues got more out of the series
! this year than ever befofe and the
money paid into the league treasures
! will go as league dues, instead of the
individual clubs being assessed for the
upkeep of their leagues.
VIII Come Up at League Meeting.
John Heydler, president OF the Ma
! tional League, was asked yesterday
whether the nine game worlds series
had been made permanent. mo, that
matter will come up this winter" he
replied.
He admitted however. that several
! men in baseball favor the longer series.
! Heydler would not say whether he APP
| proved the long or short series, but did
say that the eight game series was not
| es much of a failure as had been pointed
out
Some OF my friends told me they
thought there was more interest in the
| eighth game, when every one was
anxious to see whether the SoX could
pull 1t out, than at any time in the
| SERIES" said Heydler
The writer is heartily opposed TO the
nine game series. and fayors reten-
ton Of the old limit of seven game
| series. That has proved satisfactory
for years Herrmanns main plea for
longer series was that seven game
series would not enable him to take care
| Of all his fans, That developed into
the joke of the last series.
But the friends Of the short series
will have to keep on plugging. or the
club owners will make the nine game
series a permanent feature. Methods
already have been discussed for pre-
venting anything like the slump in the
Cincinnati attendance by selling four
game tickets in each series next year.
and refundins the money in the event
tho series is not played.
Having tasted a three quarter million
worlds series it will not be an easy
matter to make the magnates pass
it up.