Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-08 | Page 10 | Trading of Ball Players in Midseason Should be Stopped

Trading of Ball Players In j ! Midseason Should Be i; Stopped. . . jj (JJHE upshot. -.c-tho -recent Boston- t" I Chicago deal, whereby the Cubs' i I chances for the" National league pen- I nant wero greatly Increased, will rifob- ! ? b, a, " Wh,Ch W,U on Pi trades of players during the champion- ; ahlp season unless the other clubs' con- r; lm,P ?Stun WM wkened by the V deal.. while the Cubs look to have a i t better chanco for the Hag now thin J tho piayim- Mason, but there Ib n W growing antipathy against the trading v 1 of players for the sole purpose pf n H creasing one team's chances for th l pennant In this Instance It Is an n 1 Pittsburg to havo such a one sided j J trade go through. These clubs have a ji 1 chanco for the flag, and the deal aln f ?hows the lack of portsmanshlp " I & baseban. Not that any one of them l Tho time has come when a stop must v if bo pu to tho trading of player? o ! recognized ability during the plying ' 8 comTenT " ,0t f fvoe ! comment a few years ago when De- '' i trolt secured Delahanty from the i Washington dub by means of trade 5 which won the pennant for tho Tigers. 5 Transactions of this kind do not S I