The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1919, Page 9

en tien re Announcement Which Practi- cally Guarantees Players of Six Clubs So Much Will Give Them a Good Chance to Howl if the Receipts Are Not What They Expect. By Hugh S. Fullerton. UNNY, is it not, that we call ball players boneheads because they fail to think out a play in a fifth of @ second and think of ourselves as wise fowls. Take the National Commission, for inetance, Last fall this same com- mission, by refusing to meet with or Maten to the players of the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox teams, brought on a strike that was the * ugliest little scandal {n recent his- tory of the game. The strike resulted because the commission decided to allow the teams finishing second and third in the major leagues to participate in the receipts of the series, They set ‘ the sum to be puid players of the second teas and third teams, The | toams playing for the championship were to receive a percentage of the receipts. Conditions reduced attend- fnce to the lowest record and when the Red Sox and Cubs discovered that the teams finishing second in the leagues were guaranteed more Money than the teams playing for the pennant would receive there was a howl. That ought to have taught the commission a lesson, Yet they meet in solemn conclave and announce that each player of the winning team this fail ought to receive $2,88/, each losing player $1,890, each pber of the two teams finishing second $475 and each member of the third team 1b. Bone? Sure! If tho figures fall under these sums the players of six teams will let out a howl that will be heard all over the land. The funny thing about it was that there was no necessity whatever for tie commission to mention or guar-- wnice any rum after stating the per- centages allotted the teams, The other problem of the serie: what to do with the shine bai tar pitcher of the White Reds each is a shine bail artist, so it is hardiy to be expected that either team will di the on of the shiner, But each team is sure kick hard on the delivery of fre: ‘ | bails when their own man is not using that style. lerhaps they will kick to conceal their own metho The thing to do is for the commis. sion to have a full and complete un- derstanding with owners, managers, er players and umpires before a game ts peer P§ Baer ao thar asgsumenta @ay be| Series Undera Handicap. avoided. b 1 ———————— If the series is to be merely an exhibition of skill in throwing freak By Bozeman Bulger. bails, why don't some team sign 4X IT DEVELOPS now that one of the Australian boomerang man anc 5 veh 7 him amuse the crowd. The real idea motives in stretching the world's of a World's Series is to see two series into nine mes instead of teams play, not to watch two pitch~ ers exhibit, and if the commission checks up the use of the shiner chances are the crowds will w @ test of strength between two teams, There is sure to be a powerful lot of hitting in the series, even if the stars, Eller and Cicotte, are permitted we use the shiner freely. The major leagues have taken rather a wise course in the draft mat~ ter iustead of forcing the Issue compelling the minors either to sur- render or declare war. It woulu have deen better, of course, if the major leagues had stuck to their verbal agreement of last winter and entered into @ written agreement wit minors, Many of the major league owners declare the minors are mak- ing a big mistake and that they will regret it, If that is true, why should the majors decline to sign the agree- | qmnent? | The statement that the Aave at heart the interests of young Players is rather sjckenins, The only use the majors have young player is to place him later if he develops the draftin n ‘gives the ambitious playes ig ridiculous. If a majo thinks that a player is to hold a major job he js not ¢ —he is bought before the @eason. We have been pr mised year after ung t,|as they gear that the evil of ming" y and the | majors| the for a| | with | | gome friendly club which will train) him and turn him over to the majors The claim that] vouns, a chance to advance STANDING OF THE CLUBS NATIONAL LCAGUE. Clubs, = WL. PC. Clube, WLP, Cincinnati ...88 40.688 Brookiye aw New York....79 48 632 Bost 62 812 Philadetphia, 45 79 GAMES YESTERDAY, GAMES TO-DAY. Now York at St. Lowi, atl, la at Pittsburgh (two games), AMERICAN LEAGUE. Philadel Wek. PO. Ww. PO, 6245 648 4 62.08 .74 82.689 Boston 6263 498 .72 85.867, Washington ..49 79.383 2 270 56 .545| Philadetphia, .34 GAMES YESTERDAY, Phitadetphia, 0, , trol, @, jew York-St, Louls (wet grounds), GAMES TO-DAY. St. Louis at New York (two games), Cleyeiand at Boston, Detroit at Washingto, Chigago at Philadelphia, doping the pitching strength of the two teams, I am not in position yet to admit or deny such claims. ut the claims raise an interesting problem. How much stronger must the Red pitchers be than the White Sox to give them an equal chance to win the series? 'o date, the White Sox have one run to each 1.77 hits—a fecord equalled only four times by any club \s far as I can find-—once by Fielder Jones's White Sox, once by the , once by the Red Sox and once teburgh, The Reds this season required 2.04 hits to score a run. It would look on the face of such returns as if the Reds must be ap- pre tely 15 per cent, stronger he White Sox pitchers to have an equal ghance of winning the series, hat is, if the sam od in the serles eee ote eee owever, we shall see abs when ie final dope statistics is 114, the Bell Syndicate, tne.) Longer Series American League Politics Place Their Representatives in seven was to give the Reds a better chance of winning, A National League ofMiciad candidly admitted in conversa- tion yesterday that this was given consideration in voting to Indorse the plan of the National Commission, That such @ motive could have in- | fluenced the National League is read- | lly understood, but it seems incredible that American League club owners could have So voted if they realized re ha LR TRIED NATIONAL COMMISSION PULLS NEW A BONE IN WORLD'S SERIES ENING W ORLD, SAT URDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 19 S OF ALL THE SPORTS Goodby, Records, When These Stars Clever Move To Give Reds Edge on Sox is no disputing the fact that it will cost the baseball public at least $100, 000 more to see this series than those of the past. Garry Herrmann says it will give more people a chance to see thy gainos. He addg that thousinds would be de- prived of secing the seven game se- ries. Quite true. But there have been hundreds of thousands so deprived every time the series was played In New York, Boston or Chicago, That was known when the original plan was adopted, which has worked #0 well for the the last fifteen years. It is pretty hard to get around that com- mercialism idea, isn’t it? dace or. Sen ERS tc scale will be witnessed in Jersey City beginning the middie of next month And lasting throughout the winter and intil the warm weather comes around again next year. The Arena A, C., which has Just been organized is the club that will bring off these enter- tainments. The shows will be staged The Yanks are up to thelr necks in a double-header with the Browns this afternoon, and Miller Huggins, if suc- cessful in the two-ply affair, thinks he has an excellent chance of winning third place from Detroit or Cleveland Ho has quite a lot of new talent to try out, put declared yesterday that he that it was giving the rival organiza- tion an advantage, | At the very outset Mr, Comiskey, owner of the White Sox, announced that he was opposed to playing nine games because it smacked of com- |mercialism, He also felt that it would give his team a playing dis- advantage, ‘But, notwithstanding the | fuct that his team was the one pri- marily to be considered, it 1s under- stood that five clubs of his own league voted against him, The advantage supposed to fall to the lot of the Reds is that they have | more pitchers than the White Sox and are, therefore, better equipped to go over a longer route than the usual seven games, Moran has four top| |noteh pitchers in good 8! while | the Sox have but three eally but wo, Cleotte and Williams, A’ mont regrettable feature to this | extraordinary sit tion is that the | Americ Jeague clubs lined up just are lined up in the fight over would refrain from experiments until it was certain his club had no chance | Joe Lynch of this city and Frankie) Adair, ‘the lal lanwweigit of getting in the money. | | Huggins, by the way, ts not so sure | that the Reds will have an advantage | of the White Sox, He says they may | got caught in their own strategy. The Yank manager feels sure that Cicotte | can beat the Reds, and he calls ot- | tention to the’ fact that the Sox star! will be able to pitch oftener and have | more rest between in a nine game series. ho have Among the new players joined the Yanks and are wearing the Ruppert-Huston livery are Frank Gleick, an outfielder from the Saginaw Club; Del Bissonette, a pitcher, and Frank Calloway, a southpaw twirler from Knoxville. Bissonette is a high rchool boy and is known as Babe Ruth 2d. He Is said to look Ike Ruth, but that is probably because he has the same number of arms and legs, He is a nice looking boy, but none of us called him “Babe” by mistake, A few fans, not having learned the postponement of yesterday's gar on account of wet grounds, went to the park. ‘Though the notice w sent at 11 o'clock and posted in the stations, those in cars didn't get it. One of these unfortunates was Ran Johnson—yes, Big Ban himself, It was his first trip in a long time, and he probably thought for a minute that the fighting Colonels had barred him, sees EL SUNDAY SEMI PRO GAMES. Pmeralds vs, Eurle's Red Caps at Catholic Protectory Grounds. Bushwicks va. Downey and fron- sides at Dexter Park, Brooklyn, East New York ve. Inner Seal Newark Stara, at Eust Oval, Brooklyn, Farmers vs. Ridgewood A, C., and Empire City at Ivanhoe Park, Glen- dale, 1 Morse vs Morse Field, Br Lincoln and Now Yor! Bachrach rooklyn. ints vs, Royal Giants at Giants at va. Newburg at Brooklyn York ys. Federal Dry Dock, at West New York, N. J Hackensack vs, Penn Red Capa at i Field, Hackensack, N. J Philadelphia Giants at | t Field, N. J Flatbush ys, Drysdale at Flatbush Oval, Brooklyn, Springficlds vs. Montauks at Rec- reation Park, Long Island City, Parkville vs. Chathams at Parkville 1, Brooklyn. O'Ryan'’s Rough Necks vs. Heil Fighters at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn. Bt. vould be stopped. In_ fac Plover" wotia"be stopp tm face an hg a ue oe bean stopped. Legally it has, but|that New York, Chicago and Boston there probably {s not a club in cither|voted against the nine-game | plan, league that has not placed! while Detroit, ington, St. Louis, th f diy minor league veland and Philadelphia backed ubject to 1s, jup the commission, If any National rs wisely decided to stop] League club voted against nine games fhe practice of farr | its has not been made known selves and pass to tt You can’t blame those ine ‘| follows for trying to help Moran win, subject 5 Ne irly everybody 4s pulling for bin this some of the ¢ have entered] ys tr possible, though, that five clubs Pinto lemon'e coments” with|in “the American League have per- fre lenser clubs concernin~ tho re-| mitted baseball politics to infuence farm of such players fy aaa 1 ) vote against the Interest of ey ae ine: PB ag Ms Mg BE n that is to represent their RRR eae ee iinyer who war placed jeagve in the world's championship Sith {t Mnder & cenaban at the contestems incredible, Most of us fede Chut > young e followed baseball as a sport eneher Me Cho y years are loath to believe bei Joomington,” true, we must confess the ‘ SE a ae ee taws the old Kaine is certainly slipping f the 1 from its lugh estate, Club owners ee et Ve Jost their vision. They no longer Ae Mel ita sh seo straight, Are they so saturated Gena rreeine With {il feeling and small politics as him two their perspective warped? It this souson a situation ands pe ship for Blo the i has sold to the © at good in uncovering other is reported § olesomeness that has bee “Rog” i ore working beneath the surface, The n brine up two prob-| Aside from this unsavory, feature fems: Would man i to the ehange in the World's Series player pieced h eam to help plan, the baseball ma ates who are it wi a ns Would a the National Commission gentleman another game idea, to offset the lub in : ommoercialism, offer the * own Ie argument that the players 4 man tr t nore money nd that the re- do either of ceipta of the last t mes will bo : turned back into the treasury of the } We are hear 1 lot nowadays sues, about t! a! superior strength Whatever becomes of the money is oe the Clncinnats pitehing staff over of little consequence to the public, fe White Sox. Not having finished By tacking on two extra games there . — at the Fourth Regiment Armory which can accommodate 10,000 per- sons. The armory 1s located close to the Summit Avenue station, Only big attractions will be put on by the of- | ficials of the club and one of their! main bouts is expected to be between Burns, the sensational little fighter of Jersey City, Dave Driscoll, who ie staging the big oven alt boxing wow at the Jemey City baseball grounds on wext Toeeday night, at which Ghamilon Jobnay Kivave and Frankie Burne clash in the star bout of eight rounds for the featherweight | championshiy title, declared today that arrande- ments hare been made to accommodate 20,000 hai will be placal all around the ‘The grand stand and bleachers aconmmo- Jate several tiousaud more pemons, Al, Lippe, who trongit many American fizhtors to France for fish few year ago, to-day Te ceived om the oramier country, in which he an Nothing Doing with Georges a ch * which news . to box and tat may never box again, Vienne wants Linve to bring over Jeff Sinith to box either Bddie McGoorty or Batuing Levinnky in Varia, Vienne, Carpe Flarry Patwanls. owner and matchmaker of the Olympia A, A, of Phdadelytua, has signed Joo Burman of Chicago, to mt Ruly Bevan Mt Wilkew-Harre, Va, in the star bout of ix rounds at b's sow on Monfay night, end Jor Wat to at the show whic! ab on Monday ove. o be fog wi rounds, der taken another boxer as th a bas fe ’Doten'* "1 a Browiely i fe follows, tald Morgan ta we a in 60 ng cont again n to have hit got him gene tonta, As Dan figuras that Brandt i etd able 0 fight, he decided Wo hew him out, Harry Grob, the mewsd Vittaburth tight heavy weight, W a) ©, last night “her lo by ia mia atte n her in @ MeKinney A, ©, of rug, the proposed mate moons the praniaing loc. « Kioty the good walter weight of La Mav, haa { tauged, ‘The was Dan Morgan lad ent | moter, ‘They will claals om, at an open a 4 Vark at Lawrence, Maas, an Bac u Sept, 20, Joe Wagner who te the manager of Jace Piarkey the former lo: ight, both of are now making a Detnnt ina to the wr wm that Jack and not Jawa W et | Suark ay. |» to tmet champion Pete Herman, in « ten round J bout at Di no next Momlay night, Wagner eays that Sharkey la @ great atizaction in that city, jew Lots A. C. vs. Maujers, at New Lots Oval, Brooklyn. Mel Congas end Jinuny Hanlon of Denver, who EWS John Pollock and Gossi Indoor boxing shows on a@ large] City oo Thunslay night on account of the be tom Get Busy To-Day at Franklin Field FRED W.- KELLY (Ze Loses \ BIO Country’s Greatest Athletes Respond for National A, A. U. Senior Championships— One-Mile Record Likely to Flop. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 13.— Stars of the atbletic world will com- pete af Franklin Field to-day in track and field events for the senior A. A. U, titles, Champions from all parts of the country are entered in the various contests and close compett- Yon and new records for the book are expected before the final event has been decided, One record endangered is the one- mile world's mark of 4.12 3-6, held by Norman Taber, Jole Ray, Eddie Fall, Jimunie Connolly and Joe Stout will toe the mark in this race, and as Connolly forced Ray to do better than 4.16 in a race at Toronto last Saturday it expected the coveted mark wil broken, The track Good Show at De Forest A. 0. LONG BRANCH, N. J, Sept. 13,— A corking show was put on at the De at Franklin Field is more suited record breaking feats than the ut nto, and as the opposition is than jast Saturday, this in- on Forest A. ©. last night. | Two -|Grenses. faye Guaboe of weanie cat round ev the enrd. tie lother title ; an. Pilkington Jimmy | Bullivan | mark And breaking @ world's 1a Whitl while Another record which ma: > the boards is the hurdle mark held by Bob Simpson. Earl Thompson of the Boston A. A. and Fred Kelley, holder of the Olymple title, will offer Noble and draw, opposition to the champion in this ey and as all three athl in thelr best condition it looks as looks as 7 though Father Time will suffer an- moor of tail which Gade the av«cators leave Other ier ut, Will box at the aame clu on Monday n the pole vault Frank Foss of the the otier two eigit round route’ Chico A, A., who a short while eowowu Battling Levinwxy and “Wid Burt"! ago hing up a new world’s record sonny and Lary Willwne of Drideyort amt} when he cleared the bar at 13 feet sascuugy Macken of thin city Inches, will, match his skill — uinst two crack vaulter be Fane teatherweidht ot Now| 8, Ralph Cai pep eae ; A p Bene! paraw, of the Multnomah <A, ©. Ved 1 after an atenance of thre wks, the ber! rowe incor and Graham, | Shea- sened artiche of age calling for bun & H nt ¢ neo Young Chaney, the featherwmatit n rand Yant at Baltl 28, Abateet hae ah | 10g roprementar pete among whiot Tete Hernan two hard) 4 representatives of the New York {igi and be foals certain of (rating Chaney. Donte, Acie A. An Illinois A. C., Meadowbrook Club, St. Amy Mack, who lor ot the affaim of both ushy Graber and Waiter Mohr, thy Brooklyn fighters, has tookel up Mole jo mest Harney naan J., 00 Adair Knights of 8t. An- Lyceum, Glencoe A. uw y, Loughlin C. and Milrose A FOUR REFEREES REQUIRED TO HANDLE THIS SHOW, Four referees will be required to han- dly the big boxing show at the Jersey City Ball Park on Tuesday night. there are several candidates for the Job, but it is assured that Harry Ertle bout at the Trenton A. ext Mouday 1 & reay fight an be i wil interpret ihe rules and ohnny Kilbane, featherweight cham= plon of Frank p 1 WhO are to ht rou used Ir ation, and "Big iid Kini who ure carded to clash in tslund sen f Ilarrison, manager Olymp to box Joe Burman at special wel hie Sept. 2, Mead had acorpted an offer ¢ es pares yee mpion Merman on that date at Trnto ‘Johnson, and mood ready to pont @ fortelt for Lynch w j jighany vurt weigh 118 ringside providing Her ' Johnny Shug- £0 00 the eealin, but no reply was vt | City's h ont Peve or bis manager as to Wis just ‘dein hoxing “promoter, “who "Wan s — f the “Teddy” The Twentieth Century A. ©, Pittsfield, wt Cihawh at eenieh reopen with 4 bout’ between Prank jonounced yenterd Fleming ot nny Veto ow will be held Boston on Sept f the follow- y announced htwetaht Na wh neat Wed EDUCATIONAL, INSTRUCTION, &C night, Dun ng $1,000 guarante, wih @ & 68 rt Wr cent, pF AML the at y Murray rwcord Mike bantains seem to be side-stoppine te local bantain whew Jack Dewpoey's ke Te 1 KNOW YOUR CAK AC. weate to use him une week from Munda fe ee ee cs ee ae init the ploasure in driving Artie O'Leary, the local Hehtwelght, bas be ten OUEh, Dractical mathed by Bain Wallach jo box lorky Kel Bourne at th en z ® Stewart Automobile School will enable you to master any road qualify you to pass THREE CHAMPIONS BOX FOR THE 1ST DIVISION. champ! Mechanient With Course, B45, Dri 863, 1 Thre ns were seen last nix in Madison Sguare Garden at the bi, show given by the Knights of Columou for the boys of the Ist Division, Ben Leonard, Hohtweltht chai tton,’ weiter title he and M Dowd, king of the miidiewelghts, ap ared in exhibition bouts, onurd wont through three fa rounds wi Benjamin, his sparrir partner. g und cleverns made a big soldiers, Br ton, who never missed an opportunit to "box for the woldicrs, also ws through three rounds with his sparrin |partner, Mike O'Dowd got a big han. lruction Gh beare. to eult. ‘senes rom the goliiers when he st 4 int SPECIAL CLABSES FOR LADLG#, Jthe ring. Mike was one of those wh Callan write for booklet. My actual servicu in. Franco, Dik 235 Weat £01 ar Broadway) }wh hg partner around t | ring. for rounds while the crow wiidly red, were naive to bon et the Ammay A, A. of Joqey Nearly every other boxer of note did his share to make the show & success A Complete Magazine of Special Features, Illustrations and Short Stories. — —--- © --—— wm BEGINNING a New Serial Story by Isobel Ostrander, en- titled “TWENTY-SIX CLUES.” oo: A Picture Section of Unique Value, Printed by Photographic Process. oe Specially tz Two Lengthy Instalments Von Tirpitz REVELATIONS —AND— Gen. Ludendorff’s OWN STORY of Germany’s Downfall and the Collapse of the Military and Naval Machine , sR VON TIRPITZ Will Tell in To-Morrow’s Sunday World how Germany and the United States might have grown closer together, perhaps becomng allies, had Germany preserved peace with ; He tells of conversations with Roosevelt and at- tempts to show that the former President regarded the interests of Germany and America as common, espe- cially as opposed to Japan. He speaks of the sending of the American fleet around the world and claims that Roosevelt approached him on the subject before giving the fleet orders. He admits that German propaganda in the United States was partly responsible for our entry into the war, He gives the German side of the Venezuela incident, and claims that after England had deserted Germany she tried to promote enmity between Germany and the United States. GEN. LUDENDORFF’S © Story of Germany’s Failure in To-Mor- row’s Sunday World Will Relate That, while the allied peoples were badly shaken in March, 1918, by the dramatic sweep of the German armies toward Amiens and past Montdidier, Ludendorff himself was by no means satisfied with the outcome of his great plan to smash the British army by backing it against the sea. His whole scheme went awry. The army that he in- tended should make the principal attack failed him, and the army that was merely to support the attackers was the one that made the chief advance. As a result, he found himself in a very difficult situation, with the region which he had devastated so thoroughly the year before as his chief prize. How and why this happened to him Ludendorff ex- plains with astonishing bluntness and frankness. It is a chapter of his revelations which should not be missed by any one who felt the keen anxieties of the time from the Allies’ point of view. 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