Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-13

PLAYERS who are kicking Viz
orouslv and viciously about the
base ball schedule, not the own
ers. Usually it is an owner
who arises and informs the poor JOINT
schedule committee where it should get
of.
The players are on the verge of is
suing a protest in the form OF Dill
of rights against being compelled to
play any major league championships
in the future between the middle OF
April and the last day of September:
Furthermore. the players are right
II is an outrage never to give them
real. honest to goodness day of, and
biz league base ball had better awaken
to the fact that it has some right TO
hold its tine and some self-reSpect of
its own to maintain.
The Boston Nationals upon their re-
turn to their native heath after their
present invasion of the West will be
compelled to play double headers prac-
ticaily all the remainder of the season,
which will mean we'll nigh a month.
That isn't sport, athletics or game.
1t is bush league base ball. Emer-
gencies of fate and weather. combined
with bulldozing made it so. 1t is Ike
tackling a wood pile and splitting
hickory knots instead Of making a dis
play of skill.
Twin Bills Sap Strength.
No team of athletes can 60 through
the practice and high pressure of double
headers. one after another. without
losing all athletic edge.
The whole scheme of the schedule
this year was To make its finish on
q vx,Nrift
series might follow immediately-start-
ing on Wednesday. october 3. accord
ing to today's announcement-and base
ball can be hustled to the moth balls
as quickly as possible in order that all
attention can be given TO foot ball The
schedule makers abbreviated the time
so that they have knocked all the sports
of a major league base ball race to
smithereens
Double headers mar competition be-
yond popular conception. Not only is all
the routine of the pitching staff tum-
bled TO the dogs, but the players are
exhausted during the torrid days when
they are forced to undergo the strain
and nervous fretting of two games on
one day. Between loss of sleep from the
heat and loss of their tempers in other
ways, they become irascible and the
team never is at the mental polSe tnat
it should be, especially If it is on the
road
Last week a violent objection was
raised by many players against what
they described as the utter uselessness
of sacrificing them in order that the
world series may be hustled away TO the
dark room before october Is.
Late Finishes in Old Days.
In the days of the greatest popu-
larity of base ball, prior to the begin
ming Of the World War the schedules
did not end until October 3, or 5. or
even T. There we're dates for decent
travel by the teams. This year the
travel of the base ball clubs has been
a hardship during the hot weather.
often there has been better weather
for base ball on October IS than on
September Is But dismissing the
weather entirely from the issue. the dis
turbances Of this accommodating the
piling up Of double headers, the long
Journeys imposed and such perfectly
farcical and unsportsmanlike thing as
making the Yankees start double
header at Detroit within Is minutes Of
their arrival from Boston--haVe made
base ball resemble a travelling circus
that makes quick jumps To get enough
to 90 on 10 the next stop.
The present abbreviated schedule mas