Show POSTPONE PLAN FOR THIRD BIG BIB MAJOR CIRCUIT I Efforts Made to Sign V Veterans Reds Arc Disappointed Ry ily GEO GEORGE GE CHADWICK Special Correspondent of ot The Copyright 1926 Consolidated Press Association NEW YORK Oct Pro 9 9 Pro Pro- a i meters ot of a II r rumored mored third major bo ball league probably will Inauguration of the tho enterprise until another year This 13 i the opinion of major league owners and based on the tho tremendous demonstration for baseball as Is which took place In III the middle west as a result ot of the winning of ot the National league pennant by the St Louis Cardinals Cardinali Thero were present in St St Louis recently four tour men of o means moans who who back some tome part of oC o a third major league leacue If it they were satis- satis satisfied tied satis-tied fled fied that they could enlist men with them who would be to undertake what might be a losing fight at the th beginnIng trusting for success In about three years All the time the world serIes games have been on there has bee been II a little group croup of o men who know quite a lot about baseball movinG In and out of ot the tin crowds In the hotels and chatting ami arni- arni amiably ably with everybody they knew They were sounding the mood or of orthe the fans and even talking to the club owners owners and thuy were try try- tryIng try trying ing log to absorb all the Idle gossip and all t c facts fact that they could about conditions In baseball They were sIzing the situation up But they did not advertise It it They compared notes dally daily and made reports dall dally daily The tre tremendous enthusiasm which greet greet- greeted greeted erected ed the winning of the tho pennant In InSl St Sl Louis Loula made mad them question whether the time timo Is propitious to sail sali Into a third league And yet AS one on of ot them ob oh observed served the th only success that an Intruding league ever has bas had has hal been when organized baseball has been most niort successful APPROACH YEnS PLAYERS These men have haT had theIr agents talkIng with baseball play play- players players ers era Some Som ot of the players who were approached In an Informal sort of way hardly knew what they were ere talking about They Thc were much more interested In the th world series A ban player who Is tied up in a a world series talks vaguely about everything The rhe Theone Th Thon one on fact tact that holds his attention i the dollar mark This world series Is no exception exception exception tion When th hurrah Is 15 over ovet the ball Kail players will think of at th season to come corn come with appetites whetted by the th huge hue crowds they saw In October The St Louis LouisI I team will not be as easy to sign In 1927 as it t was wal in 1926 1 2 The players who started this season with Hornsby 1 will wit have become veterans It will no longer be an organization of ot rather venture venture- venturesome venturesome some kids who were told they were not w wanted If It they could not make good but a collection of young men with ambitions liS as liSto asto asto to salary Some Sour of the tho New York Yanks have heard about this new now third league but It 11 is a ft little doubt ul ui it If t the e players player of ot the Yanks can bo be weaned very far away from the biG biff city There Is not a player on the tin team but feels per per- perfectly per perfectly sure of hi his income In 1927 1921 If tho the club wants him There may be b some som players whom the club will not want Yet it his has hash hasha a fine foundation for 1927 1 27 It If it itcan itcan itcan can trade trad for pitchers or buy pItchers It can club its way along again To some som extent this Is true of the New Nw York Nationals but there Is a more mor uncertain element on that team The players feel they are likely to be b changed about Mui cl got away So did Jimmy Johnston because both wanted to be bo able to negotiate to the best advantage to themselves and they were wre no wanted by New NewYork NewYork NewYork York for tor trading material It If It came to the th actual signIng of a contract with with- witha a ft new league leaeu the players payen of the Giants would want to see the th money in the tho th bank DODGERS DISSATISFIED There Is dissatisfaction in Brooklyn a lot bet of It it Wheat Is 13 part t of ot it He will go so to any club chub that will wilt pay nell ell to get him Of course he cannot go fo to any club in organized baseball unless Brooklyn cays say he h may but buthe ho never will play ball another year 3 u In In Brooklyn with with Ith n 81 anY any no y en en en- en 3 u n no it If it you believe what he says The Cincinnati players layers are ar not as happy as a they thy mIght aught be Some Of the Reds think they shoUld have won the pennant They saY they failed tailed because th the tha te team tc-im m had no shortstop In the ill early part art of the tho year ur despite the tact fact that Hendricks Insisted they had Pittsburg players will sUck along But Dut there will be b no more urge o on the th part of at Fred Clarke He says he te Is 11 through with that sort of ot thing thine for tor for good and all allbut but Adams Carey Carcy and BIg bell are not there They Thy were jabbed too smartly In the neck to be b through with anything except a ft chance to get back |