Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-04

red after the first game of the big
series last year and agreed that
some things looked suspicious
that the work of some of the star
players indicated they had been
reached" Crookedness in ball
game is certain to come out in
time, and it is fortunate.
1t probably is true that worlds
series never was "fixed" before
last year. And since that attempt
has come to grief it is not likely
that another one ever will be.
Crooked baseball has received a
knockout.
If any crooked players are left
in the game when the present
scandal is finally disposed of they
will go straight" through fear, if
for no other reason. They would
not dare throw" game for fear
of exposure and Punishment. The
Chicago exposure and its results
should clear the air for baseball
for generations yet to come.
Curtain Is Rung Down.
The curtain was rung down on
the major league baseball season
yesterday when the final games of
the schedules were played. Only
the big Classic-basebalt premier
event known as the worlds series
remains to be played. The stove
league-in which the fans partici-
pate largely, shopping yarns, re-
counting plays and games of the
past season and doping out prob
Oh ~ while
seated around hot fires-will fur
nish entertainment for lovers or
the sport until next spring. Then,
as the frost begins to come out OF
| the ground in the baseball parks
around the big circuits the squads
| of ball players will HE to the sun
ny climes of the southland and
tune up for another season.
The season which has just closed
has been the greatest professional
| baseball has experienced, Inc
races in the big leagues have been
close and interesting all the way
| Unlike many other seasons, the
teams that eventually won the pen
nants have had hard fights right
up to the finish. Brooklyn, the
National league winner, although
out in front with a comfortable
margin for a. couple of weeks, did
not get to ease up until the sched-
ule was almost completed. Th'
team, however, will have had 8
good rest before the big series
starts. In the American league the
race was much tighter, Cleveland
and Chicago going into the fina
| stretch with the result still II
| doubt. 1t was nerve racking FOL
the fans and players alike and the
winner has had no chance to relax
before the worlds series games.
Financial Success.
From a financial point Of view
the season just closed has been
great success. Most club owners
made money. Some of them made
big money" The New Yorl
Americans, with Babe Ruth, HON,
run king. as the biggest attraction
the game has ever known, is sale
to have exceeded all expectation
from a financial point of view anC
eclipsed the other clubs in the mat
ter of total receipts by thousand
of dollars. The Yankees did no
win the pennant by spending S225,
coo in purchasing Ruth but h
proved to be the best financial in
vestment ever made by a ball club
He drew the crowds and filled tn
Golfers of his owners. Ruth, be
sides being a money-getter for hi
owners, was largely responsible TO
his team keeping in the pennan
RI ce until the home stretch. with
out the "Bambino" the Yankee
likely would have finished down IL
the second division.
When the season started tn
Brooklyn club owners are said t
have been about 100000 TO tn
bad, but the fight put up by tn
team in winning the pennant drew
such crowds at home and abroad
that the deficit was wiped out be
fore the season closed. TIL
worlds series receipts, whether ]
wins or loses, will give the club
balance to operate on next season
Cleveland and Chicago American
league clubs also are said to hav
made "a neat sum, A few OF tn
tailend clubs did not do so well.
| Great Britain has thirty eight in
Istructional factories either In ope
1 ~. .et., e..