Evening star., 1926-11-26

NV base ball folks around the
groaning board who par
took with relish of plump
birds, while others gnawed the bones.
John Conway TOOle. president of
the international League, claimed the
right to carve a turkey which was
rated as the best looking bird, next
to that sliced up by Sam Breadon.
president and part owner of the
champion ST Louis Cardinals.
The International League in 1926
turned up new championship team
in Toronto and won the little world
series from Louisville in five straight
games. 1t established a new concrete
plant at Newark, which makes a fine
addition to those at Toronto and Buff
falo, and is about to install a new one
in Rochester.
International Healthy.
For a league that was described as
moribund, in financial straits and
lame and halt, as some of the big
leaguers pictured 1t, President Toole
thinks his circuit has completed about
as good a seasons job as the National
League, which ate it's own turkey and
part of the American Leagues, too.
Even the annual meeting Of the In
ternaional League has been set for
Rochester in order that the members
of the circuit may see that prosperity
has not overlooked them rs a whole,
despite the geographical layout of the
league.
Toward the West it is typically a
lake circuit. with Toronto, Buffalo,
Rochester and Syracuse. The dis
tances are within pacing gait. SYRIA
cuse is not on the Great Lakes, but
has one of its own, and Rochester is
near enough to Lake Ontario to let
every man get up and go fishing on n
quiet Sunday morning.
In the other end of the circuit,
Reading, Jersey City, Newark and
Baltimore are spaced at longer inter
Nals and yet there has been a better
life for the league in 1926 than before
Providence was tried, but was too far
East and failed to get enthusiastic
Providence seems to fit better with
New England rivalry because it is SO
intensely New England itself.
Baltimore Not Major City.
Some day Baltimore will have a new
concrete base ball park. The city
still yearns for q return to major
league base ball. but 1t is not proba-
able that it will eventuate for a while
The experiment Of the Federal
League confirmed base ball men in
many other interests to warm up to
base ball. which would be much more
expensive per capita than the base
ball of the class AA leagues.
1t would be mighty unfair to try
major league base ball in Baltimore
without giving John Dunn a chance
at It. because he has stood by the fans
OF Baltimore in his promises, even to
the extent of fighting all the major
league crowd. He wouldn't have the
draft and his league didn't have it
until there came into existence a mod
flied draft which isn't the old kind of
draft any more than a chipmunk is
Il squirrel.
The National League gave many
more thanks and ate much more
turkey than the American. 1t was
another National League year, with
the demonstration on the other side
Of the Mississippi River--and they
still are celebrating out that way,
with reason.
In the American Association the
Louisville club carved a turkey that
was more subdued than fat. Louis
Vile had Il fine time winning the
championship in its own circuit, but
the iGnominv Of losing every game to
Toronto has set heavily upon the
shoulders of Cap Neal.
For most of the leagues in the
southern and Southeastern sections
of the United states ii was a very
grateful THANKSGIVING, as they did
we'll. all things considered. They will
pass on from the feast to their annual
meeting in Asheville, y. c.. where
they have heard hints of North Car
nlina deliCacies to he served, which
suggest that there will he thanksgiv
ing fnr a week, provided there is no
had u"ws about new raids by the
ma jor leagues on minor league mince
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