The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-10-14
LAND|s FAvORS
SHORTER SERIES
IN 1872 SEASON
Commissioner Says Test of Sew
en- Games Is Ideal
WOULD LOWER ADMISSION
Believes Financial Returns of
Recent Tournament Men
aces National Game
WOULD LOWER ADMISSION

New York, Oct, IA. Federal Judge
Kcnesaw NJ. Lands, commissioner Of
organized baseball in statement
last night said that he woud recon-.
mend that seven game series, in
stead of nine, be played next season.
1T las been very great series,
the statement said. In every depart
ment OF the game the highest skill
was exhibited, and congratulate
every player on having maintained
the best trad tions Of this great am.
nual event.
II deem 1t appropriate at this time
to announce that at the III d-winter
Joint session of the two major
leagues. the commissioner viii offer
for adoption proposal that the world
series be limited to seven games
This viii be done in the belief that it
Is very generally accepted that the
ideal worlds championship is decid-
cd by the winning of four games as
was rule prior to 1919. A five game
series the championship to be award
cd the club winning three victories,
Is too short for fair test. On the
cthe- hand. the present lengthy series
oyertayes tie patience of the pect ..
Beyond this, the commission
iceis very strongly that there is real
menace to professional baseball from
public reate.on against financial re-
turns running into the figures ex-
pre-, cd by r.e receipts Of the series
Just closed.
obviously. lower admission prices
(Which are now within the commits
s;oner's control) and shorter series
helng more in harmony with the
highest plane OF sportsmanghip. vii
better sustain the .public's confidence
which the game demands and must
deserve"
New York, Oct. 14.--(Dy the Asso.
ciated Pres y Worlds Champions,
1S2l-the New York Nat onal League
The Giants won the battle by de-
featlng the Yankees in the eighth
game of the series at the Polo Grounds
today The American League cham
pions died fighting hard in classic
twirling duet between their pitch 'ng
ace, Waite Hoyt and Art Nehf the
Giants star left-hander., However.
they lacked the necessary punch to
win, the National League team taking
the game by the score Of to and
the series, five games to three.
The Giants victory gives Manager
John ]. McGraw his second worlds
championsh p team. The New York
Nationals, seven times pennant win
ners under McGraw's management
captured the worlds title against the
Athletics OF the American League in
1905, but although winning the bunt-
ing five times since they have been
baffled every tine until this year in
their quest for world honors, twice
bowing to the Athletics. once to the
Red Sox and once to the White Sox
in titular contests.
AS for the underlying reason for the
success of the McGraw men, the ex-
perts may differ but there seems III
tie cause to doubt that the most wide
ly propounded opinion Will be that u
was because Of preponderance of
high class pitching ability. The series
showed but two of Manager Miller
1iugglns twirlers capable of pitching
winning ball, Mays and Hoyt, while
the Giants put forward a trio of mas
ter workmen in Douglas Barnes and
Nehf
Outhit by the Giants in nearly every
sSms and by many points in the Sc
aries as whole, the Yankees none
the less made a hard fight of 1t by
their smartness IN manufacturing runs
out OF scant material and the superb
work done by Mays and Hoyt in six
OF the eight battles. Their champion
ship craft went down with flag flying
and tonight their loyal supporters
were tempering their condolences oy-
er the loss Of the series with congrat-
ulations upon the showing the Yam
kee players had made in the first
worlds title series New York Ameri-
can League team had ever earned the
right to compete.
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