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Show ELEVEN-GAME SERIES MONEY-MAKING PLOT Writer Accuses Magnates of Desire to Get All Traffic Wdl Bear. By Tribune Special Sport Service JsKW YOKE, Dec 26 The baseball moguls back of the plan to extend the world series from seven to eleven games are trying to k d the dear old publ e into bel e ng that th s lan was h t upon so as to give tbe baseball loving public a bettor chance to see the games The real facts n the matter are that the magnates want the se os extended to eleven games bo they w 11 mal e more money out of the ser es The 1914 ser es vas a huge d sappo ntn ent to those involved The ser es ran four games only and the players got the large bulk of the rece pts Tbe mag nates don t want such a th ng to hap pen again The n gnates say that if the ser es sr ncreased to eleien games the pr ces w 11 be reduced The $3 seats ot the past w 11 sell at $" At first sight that looks like a n ce th ng for the publ c but a second squ nt changes the m press ou Seven games at $3 per game used to cost the full ser es fan only $"1 Lleven games at $ per game would cost $'2 So for every tan who attended the full set of gamps t would mean $1 extra that goes into the cof fers of the magnates Under the proposed scheme t would take s x victor es to win the t tl it s unl kely that any world ser es team could win s x stra ght games "VY inn ng s x out of the n ne viould be mo e like t with the chances favor ng s x out of ten Reap Neat Harvest The se of pene 1 and paper w 11 ver quickly show what a n ce ncome would be der ved by the magnates from a nine or ten gan e ser es Thej would get a d vvv with the players n the rece pts of the first s x games and then would get 90 per cent of the income from the follow ng games r th the nat onal commibh gett ng the rest Ind the dear publ e w ould pay the fre ght Vn eleven game ser es s not praxt cal f organ zed baseball folks cont nue the r lol game schedule wh ch does not close the regular season until about October 8 That would make the first orld ser es late about October 10 ssun ng that the ser es ran the f 11 lim t and the contend ng teams were eastern ers t would moan that the series would not be completed until the latter part of October It m ght even run into "November Add eleven plaj ng davs and two or throe Sundays (davs on which eastern, clubs do not play) and you br ng the series up to the b3 d or "4th Weather Problematical The latter part of October s usually product ve of bad weather Probably t would ra n for three days dur ng the two weeks which would sh ft the se r es along lo the "6th or 9 th It s more than likely that one or two of ho e games would result m ties and would have to be played over as the October days are short and even though tho games start at 2 p n t is rarely that clubs can play more than eleven inn ngs Figur ng n all these 1 ttle items t will be seen that the ser es m ght run to October 28 with oniv two or three bad days figured n. There m ght be a spell of weather that wo Id stretch over a week s length as was the case dur ng 1911 when the plavers we e marooned in Philadelphia for seven days feuch a happening would send the players into "No ember to play the r elev enth gan e Fandom like3 baseball It will pay almost any price asked to see a blue ribbon battle Vnd t will make man's sacr fices But it seems unl kely that fandom will r sk pneumon a and other ills to attend in force ball games that are played n the latter part of Oc tober and the hrst part of November merely to swell the bank rolls of the money hungry magnates $ |