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Show flfsSiES G05TIT MTJUR Magnates Incur Enmity of Thousands of Disappointed Disappoint-ed Individuals. By I. E. SANBORN. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) ,. . CIIICACJO, Dc. H. l.'nlosa the major loaKuos abolish the world's series, there will ho ;i ffroat lot of jockeying by club owners to keep their t.'niny from gettlni; Into it, for thu el tuple ronton tliey can-TUit can-TUit afford tho high cost of it. Cln.innati'a ReiU aru tl:e heroes of southern Ohio, at least, but Aug. Herrmann Herr-mann and the other owners of the world's ch.'imploiiB made more enemies last October Octo-ber t han In all the rest of their lives, simply because they could not enlarge Itedland field .sufficiently to accommodate , the tn tire population of Ohio, Kentucky and southern I ud (una. fhlejio's While Sox: are clay hoofed idols in the northern half of Illinois, at leant, been use they wei e licked in the luU) world rf .series, and Charles A. Comis- , Key n ecu inula ted a new crop of enemies because his park could not be stretched to accommodate all tho inhabitants of Illinois, v iseonsin, M innesoia, Iowa, Nebraska, Ne-braska, and the Dakotas, who wanted to peo the hty; series. Ti;o owner of the White Sox, however, added fewer Chi-eagoans Chi-eagoans i han outsiders to the crop of on eudes he accumulated in the fall of 1917. This year he allotted reserved seats to the homo folks first and returned all applications from afar. Mackmen "Horrible Example." The TMiila lelphia Athletics, by winning the championship four times in live years, became so unpopular In their own home town that Connie Mack had to wreck his wonder'.'ul loam to keep from making any more disgruntled world's series enemies. ene-mies. Otherwise his club might havo , pone broke. In the last few years, with ', a team hopelessly last, the Philadelphia J club has hnwn a bet tor balance sheet financially than it did in the hist year! U was in the world's series. That in spite of war conditions. I The pen era! public understands that I the world's series is a big pot of pure J gold to the club owners who are lucky ! enough to participate in it. As a matter I of cold figures, a i ready shown by The ; Tribune, the Chicago and Cincinnati club j owners profited less out of the record -breaking receipts of tho world's series of 19U) than Uncle Sam did, through the Aimist'iiicnt and income taxes. C-oniiskey's profits from the latest big series will not :, begin to r-vompense him for the letters ' he received from disappointed applicants for reserved seats, nor for t iie years taken off his life bv the poor showing of his champions. The Cincinnati club's not revenue from the event will be wiped out in one season if the Ueds experience a tough year in No fans in the world ' will quit quicker than those who went crazv over tiie Moral: s. One more world's series like the last one and no club owner will dare let his j v team get into one. We will find him trading off his star players if there is n chance of winning a league championship. champion-ship. Everybody will be trying to finish fin-ish second or third. Except as a big advertisement to the national pastime, the world's series has done nothing" hut harm. The owners could get the same results at the gate by following the lead of the theaters in the matter of newspaper advertising. Patrons attracted from afar by the world's series are not the ones who support sup-port major Ion gue baseball duri ng the regular season, and make possible the big fall derby. Series Does Much Harm. The world's series made the dollar sign bigger than the batting average in baseball. base-ball. It was responsible for the Federal league, whose backers were enticed into ' the game bv the false impression that all games drew big crowds. The promoters pro-moters still are paying the cost of that war. which never would have happened but for the world's series. And when tho debts incurred in the war are settled set-tled it still will be several years before players' salaries can be reduced to normal nor-mal figures. The world's: series was responsible for the introduction of organized gambling into baseln?.ll. X n til rer-ent years betting hail been no serious menace to the sport, because it assumed threatening proportions propor-tions only in sporadic rases, which could bo dealt with individually and locally. Some ten or fifteen years ago it was necessary for the Pittsburg club to deal with professional gambling on its ball ;:anies and it did so effectively. In recent re-cent years the betting evil has been menacing in Boston, where a b.anoT of idlers makes its living- bv trimming suckers suck-ers and each other. The situation can be ha nd led if the club owners want to suppress it. But the world's series has become a national ga mble. and the only wav to kill that evil is to extract its root. |