The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
WORLDS SERIES IS. ALL GOTHAM FANS ARE THINKING OF
When First Proposed, Big Series Was Opposed by
 Some Baseball Men
By GEORGE CHADWICK Special Correspondent of Tho Age- Herald, Copyright, 1921, by The Age -HeraId.) [

1 Copyright, 1921, by The Age-HeraId) ! New York, September 3.--Between now and the end of September, there will be much local gossip and all kinds and degrees. of excitement about the worlds series. Starting from nothing, an over whelming abusing of publicity and fairly good backing, this series has developed into the greatest money team at scramble, If that compound descriptive phrase may be permitted to stand, of any event in the United States, probably in the world. l It may be interesting to know that the series was most bitterly fought when it was proposed. The writer Is not referring to the refusal of John T. Brush to play post-season se- ries with Boston in 1904, which was a purely local affair, but to the op- 1 position which came from conserva- l tive baseball men in the winter of 1904 and the spring of 1905, when the world series was beginning to assume a definite orbit in the base ball Armament.
 | The greater part of the opposition came from the conservatives of the 1 National league. Some also came from those who had supported the National league for years as an or ganization and were admirers of cer- tain of it's policies.
 Brush Takes Lead As it became apparent that a world series would be urged by a faction in the National league, John T. Brush, who had championship team in New York, which was pretty likely to repeat in 1895. decided that he would draw up the rules for the competition himself.
 Brush was only lukewarm on a world series. He had been forced into the position of preparing for the series in part by the press of New York city, which took the ground that an inter league series in 1904 had been denied the metropolis because the manager of the New York team personally was antag- onistic to Ban Johnson. which was quite true.
 Brush prepared the rules and an nounced his intention of submitting them to the National league.
 A Few Drawbacks
 A recent interesting development is the knowledge of the fact that certain powerful baseball man wrote to Brush at that time in effect as follows:
 This series will subordinate league championships until they become by words.
 It will destroy the prestige of the National league, if National league club loses, more than it will that of the American league, because the National league is the older organi- zation.
  players such as were suspected in the double season of 1892
 It will give the suspicious minds of the public ground for charging Jockeying in the race toward the close of the season, though every one of us may know that such is not the case.
 It will establish nothing of merit because it is no better than an exhi- bition series between two clubs of different leagues. There is no test of seasons strength in world se- ries.
 Leads to Betting
 It will lead ultimately to the practice of betting and, in my opin- ion, to betting on a large scale. It Is folly to say that we have no bet ting to speak of now, and cite that as fair comparisoh Aoi wha. i"a' be expected. Remember that this Is an equivalent of horse race con- ducted by heats. if that description nav be taken, and gives every op- portunity for betting and specula- ton.
 The gentleman of baseball who thus placed himself on record in his own cramped penmanship and who is alive today, was not the only one who opposed the world series and most of the arguments against It were based on it's money making im- pulse, so that Brush finally changed