Show OlD BASEBALL BOAT IS SURE TO BE ROCKED Peace With Federals Is Dell Demanded Demanded De De- De- De by Minors All ll 1 Lost Money NEW NEW YORK Oct 27 All 7 All baseball l fans major minor and outlaw are hereby warned to sit it tight and take firm hold on themselves For this win win- tor ter the old baseball boat is going to bo be rocked as it was never nover rocked before and any who haven't a death grip will go so overboard sure Just what is going oin to happen Is hard to forecast Ono thin thing is certain however how I ever cr and that is that when the ROD gong rings in the tho spring of 1915 for lor the got get awa away in the baseball world the Hold field will have a vastly different appe appearance rance to the tho one it presented during the tho lust h st season The Tho warring powers in Europe won wont won't t massa massage e the tho face aco of that country country coun try try- any ln more moro than the kings of baseball baseball base base- h ball U will t muss up the looks of or organized organized organ organ- an baseball The Tho reason for lor this change is isery very ery plain baseball clubs throughout hout the tho country lost more money mODey durin during the thelast thelast thelast last season than ever evel before in their history And there are but few y who dOD dont don't t b believe lieve that that the tho cause lies in iu inthe inthe the tho Federal league and they also think that if baseball is to continue continuo as a a profitable business that peace will have havo to bo he made mado with tho the Federals It isn't that the Federal league made the tho two major lea league clubs lose loso so much money They Thoy didn't do that But the clubs they thy did hurt hurt- and hurt badly bad bad- ly are arc the class AA teams making up the American association the tho International International league and tho the Pacific Coast league The Western and Southern n lea leagues cs class A or organizations were handed terrific wallops too in tho the shape of greatly greath reduced profits The great creat race in the National league enabled that venerable body to toddle through the tho season cason with a bettor profit on a whole than it has had in somo some time Boston's great spurt from the bottom to tho the top after July my 1 I lent an interest to that organization that re re- suited in in packed parks and big biz gate ate receipts Tho The American league didn't faro so well as the Athletics early got Jot away in the lead and md stayed there At that the American league clubs di didn't nt lose enough to scare them any Taut But the heads of the American and National lea leagues realize that they have o got ot to do something to appease the powers in tho the class AA leagues The International league is clear clearly on the rocks The Fe Federals walloped that organization organization or or- unmercifully And the tho International International In In- l league a is a great reat asset of th the major maior leagues I |