Evening star., 1933-08-10
.|NTERL0OP SCHEME
MAY PACK DANGER
Extra Competition Is Seen
as Possible Sleep Pro-
ducer for Fandom.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

n yEW YORK, August 1O.-De-
M cision has been taken by
/ Y the major leagues to play
another all-star game next
year. It is scheduled to be held
In July in Yankee Stadium.
Since the American and National
League stars played a game
month ago in Chicago as Worlds
Fair attraction, there has been
considerable talk about making it
an annual interleague affair.
Sometimes the talk has been ex-
tended to embrace a series of two,
three or four games, as a home
and-home series, with the eight
clubs in one league paired off
against the rival eight.
In the National League the clubs
strongly in favor of an annual inter-
league series of some kind are Boston.
Philadelphia, Cincinnati, st. Louis and
Chicago. With the American Leaguers,
this proposal Is not SO pressing Hav-
ing defeated the Nationals at ChicaSo
last month, they seem somewhat in
clined to rest on their laurels and not
urge the National League to be over
enthusiastic about arranging a series.
Excuse Is Lacking.
THERE is no Worlds Fair to be
held next year so an excuse has
to be manufactured for the play
ing Of another al-star game OF course,
the regular season were broken into
and a mld-SeasOn or post series
between the two leagues was arranged,
it would be definitely put down as an
accepted fact from the beginning of the
season. The leagues would cease play
ing individually and begin their joint
schedule Of regularly arranged games
on a fixed date.
The schedule might start of with
the New York club of the National
League playing the Boston Americans
and making its way around the circuit
OF the American League clubs in the
East. Having finished that, it might
play home games with the American
League clubs Of the West, and then in
return matches play the American
League clubs at home in the West, fin
ishing up on their own grounds with
iCtuiA SdiilcS Will tllc EdSteTQ AIQeIl-
can League clubs.
THE suggestion has been made in
Chicago that such series be
played after schedules of 100
games have been finished by each
league. This would make the regular
season "a games shorter than it is now.
There might be time enough for the
extra interleague season to be played
and leave about two weeks over for
each league to complete its own race,
prior to the advent of the world SERIES
It Is a question whether an arrange
ment of this kind would not give the
fans an idea that they had seen enough
interleague base ball to suit them. 50
that they would give the world series
the go-by. This Is matter which will
have to be reckoned upon seriously
by the two leagues. if they allow their
thoughts to dwell on anything of this
kind.
In their effort to concentrate the in
terest OF the fan, the club owners might
concentrate 1t in only one league, and
the other league would 60 begging. That
would not be very f1attering adver-
tisement for a world SERIES
ANY departure from the straight
forward manner in which base ball
races are now conducted is to be looked
upon with extreme caution. 1t may
promise we'll. but the results of so
years experience in conducting the
major leagues weigh more heavily in
the argument.