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Show SERIES MONEY - DimPUZZLE Club Owners and Players Differ in Views on Cutting Melon. By I. E. SANBORN. ((''Jib-acro Tribune.) Dissatisfaction over tlnl division of tho world's st; rit'M r:ceipl a last reason wait to great tha t a new dual will be tried thltf year. Theie wan nothing the matter with the nrw Idea Itn'olvt-d in the lnnoatlon introduced in HJ!? by Die national coannls.skui. It picked an nn- forlunatf tlnm to .'-prlnc It. 'hen (he sdn'm" of d .st rlbu t ii m to Inch) do tne four first division t'-nniN In both leatruH was evolved nobody could have foreH'-tn what was pointf to happen hap-pen t ho "work or f iKhf edict and t he eornpulso! y siiort-nln of )f y-: i, w'nb'h bv.-ajied inteit-st In twisetall nnd reduced the n tt TnJance at the world' scries gairifS In spite of reduced prlres. The bull players, wltli tlieir horizons bounded by the walls of tho bull paraH. took no ci'Ktdzancf of t're-jp condition.') and kli-kcfi nolsllv-, flundy trying io stage a strike In nns'on tinle:-. ;rl'en moj-'i coin. After Hip htmbasit Inn: thev got from t he proa and pucllc It is not likely the players will try to poll anything any-thing as raw an that ai;nln. hut t)ie na lional cou.tni "sion proba b!- will ' v. tno fi way to avoid pome of the d : t pif:i (-. tioti cr-ited by tho I'-'H e p.ri uo-n t . That test, by tin way, was nuide In response to a' k 1 1 I'.v the players of other than din m pi ui.- h i p teams th.it they oujrbt. lo get some reward for makini? a I;i:lil for the pennant, only to be be.iten In tiie home stretch. It wa do-1 do-1 .iiriied t" l'e the puldie better bae. ha 1 by h;i nir i up a coin purne for fin-is.dny fin-is.dny Iti Die rirrt ilhiscui. T.'io ch',.:r uiiiN,. of dN.satfacriou that the plnvers would lilto nil tho monev laken in at the nlo durliiK a world's ki'I l.-a. in add it ion ro t heir f.il-nrie-, )U(i rata for the duration of (be eon t eM, and to have the club owners, tho oommb'don. or Mnne body of patriotic cl t izens pa y iiM tho ex pe uses of con -"duetiiiK tin- an: leu. The p la vera will get sonmt lilnw lea than ti.at. of coin-Re, but one of Die least sensible of their obectlons to the nut of the coin h:is to do w Ith tho hi per cent of thf arro.fH'1 retained iiy the national na-tional commission. This Ii.ts been a bom; of eonl'Mi l Ion ami n S"un e of knocking knock-ing ever since the baseball derby Was ItiauKUrnte.l liack In Ifo,".. The p iivi'i-n :i!!:iic (bat, as tlie commission com-mission Im in 1 1 mi y a court to decide d s-pute s-pute stnoiiK club twneia, it should be wuppor t rd by the clubs and not Ink e utiv of the world's Bcrien coin away from tho playeis. That ari:ument fnlls flat when confronted con-fronted with 1 he fact that Die nn Honnl commission la more of n com t of appeal ap-peal for ba II pin y era than for club owner. ( iver 1'" p'T en t of Die ca ich that have come bdoi " tin- : ,i m b ii Ion Iti reeetit yea i m have br-eu d m;i,.,i be -t wren dub nivin'ivi a nrl pl.i y i i s Ha la ' v ' cIh Iiuh by plnyois liavn pro-rlomlna pro-rlomlna l cd. In several inn til ncoa tho cnntmlaslon has been appealed to by players to eol-le eol-le t money loa n cd by them to toim-mairs toim-mairs who b'l't their clubs without p:iy-Ini: p:iy-Ini: i heir de'ds. When proofs wero forilic-uniii". the comuu.'.slon has done tbi'i, w.aTe er possible. Thefle at a t cm n ; s need not be t a ken for m a tiled. They can he verified by consult mi; the print ed annual reports of the conmii:-:;ion's dolin-,.--. Take the i:iS rej.ort as an llbudra-tbm. llbudra-tbm. The coiniMi.-.-aoi IsMied seenty riniMncs and bulletlna laist yea.r. 'I liu ly-I'e ly-I'e of ( lii-m. or JuMt l.o per cem, had to do with phuers" i 01 11 pla i nt.s or plent. Twe'e oio caaei lnolltK major nml minor league.-, and oio seven had to do wP ll ca ses hep ecu ma tor lc i:;u. dubs. The other nl i ecu f Ind i lira were bm let ms a nd In 1 1 -o: a t ions of ruioM. not involvlm; iuil idi.ala or clubs. And If the p!.iei'H bad no protection whatever from !oiue of the chib owmu's Who have hoi'cht Ihr-li' wav IllbV luofe;-- Si-lial bi ' all lit. x wood ti-;e .pine a lot mnte than they ,o alien the national camul 'II eti;o-l: In j er ceui of tin Sio:,a be ore the xvorlil a sci i. s la sp It between player.' and club owners, iht ami la, In fa or of I hn a I hlet es. |