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Show GOMISKEY BELIEVES IN i LONG BASEBALL SEASON Chicago Manager Favors Heavy Schedule, and Cites Size of Closing Crowds as Argument. CHICAGO, Nov. 2. Was the 1904 baseball season of the major leagues too long? Will the magnates" cut down the number of games next year? These are the two Questions that are being discussed right now more than any other by the baseball scr)beg around the two circuits. There seems to be a general howl .against prolonging the season next year." Magnates In practically all the cities have been been quoted as favoring favor-ing shortening the season. Charles Comiskey, president of the White Sox, is not of this number. He ' believes that the long season plan has been a success, and points to the attendance at-tendance at the various parks as proof of his belief. He says: ' "Look at the crowds we have had here since October 1. T.hihk of playing to 30,000 Octob?r. Is that an argument that the Interest in the game lags materially ma-terially as soon as the college boys begin be-gin to chase the pigskin? "Some of the magnates will argue that this great October crowd was due i to the desperate battle for place in the i American league race. How, then, do you explain the attendance last Sunday, when 10,000 went to the park to see St. Louis play after the White Sox had been declare'd out of the running? And there were almost as many people on the West Side the sarte day despite the fact that the Microbes had clinched their hold on the second round of the ladder. . "And look at the crowd of 30,000 who saw the final game between New York and Boston, on October 10. Does that Indicate In-dicate that baseball Is not profitable after af-ter the frost begins to fly? VI can't understand this general wall about the length of the playing season. A fan will go to the park just as long as the team remains Intact, and even afterward. The post-season series in the various cities have been good drawing draw-ing cards, which shows that the weather weath-er and the race for leadership are not the only drawing cards. People go to baseball games because they love the sport. They would yell themselves hoarse until Christmas If they had an onnortunltv." GOOD RECORD MADE BY 1UXED0 TEAM Standing of the Teams. Won. Lost. V. c. Brilliants 7 1 Tuxedos 3 '7 Railroads 6 4 Independents .. 2 4 .-3 Nonpareils 3 i .M Senators 1 S .Hi Members of the Tuxedo bowling team made a record of 1029 pins in a game with the Kailroads at the league alleys Tuesday evening.; The average for the game was 205 4-5. Talamantes made high score, 225. in the second game. The scores: RA1LROAD8. V.hitnev t 2U Kit 2 Pi ice 1W l' 1"7 Martin V ITS 144 Nelson Wl y2 170 Williams 13 17 Totals ! 7 773 M2 TUXEDOS. C'am'ile ldC 114 i7t! Hamilton 1:11 - 1 Talamantes '.: I1"- 15. Smith ; HH. lt M.-l.eod lf 1S9 H7 Totals .- 7VJ l.C'ja 1IS Old Fighter I Dead. Ni:V VOUK. N'ov. -. irorge llooke. 62 years old, who at one time claimed to be middle-weight champion pugilist of the world, in dead in a Newark. X. J., ho.i ital. He was comparatively un- ! known to the your.ger generation of pu- j ilists and sporting men in general, but , a quarter of a century ago he was a ! eta.r in pugilistic circles. All his 'contests were fought with bare knuckles. His last fight was when he defeated "Paddy" Pvyan in Chicago, twenty-five years ago. j |