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Show If BAN JOHNSON'S li CRAFTYMETHOBS Hfjjjji! National League Official Says 111 Johnson Is Making Effort bjflr to Insure Victory. I j ' SHARP CRITICISM I jj ; Buying and Selling of Players Has Resulted in Unbalanc-Bijl Unbalanc-Bijl J I ing the Field. ! I New York, Sept. 4. A prominent it B National League official who wishes ill IIP n,s namo withheld accuses President Ifjllfj ( Ban Johnson of tho American League f I I of rather crafty methods in an effort tjllljh to insure victory for his league in tho Vjlll'l' next world's series. The sale of star MM players by the weaker clubs to tho I Ml M three leaders Boston Red So. De- Mirl troIt T1Sers and Chicago White Sox I $1 1 which has caused so much of a hue I'll and cry amono ffins ln tnc second dH lifJIH vision cities, is explained at last If i the National League talker has gues- ! ted right. J 1 1 "Ban Johnson was deeply dlsap- fllJ pointed, not to say peeved, when tho icfi Athletics were beaten four straight BiillPl by tho Braves last fall," said the ac- i III ir cuscr. "He felt that his organization 11 Mil I nad lost PresU&e because of it. The )!j hi American League hnd won every Hrfjlljjj world's scries sinco 1909, when Pitts- IUuH burg gained the last National victory 1 1(1 II ill over Detroit. The Athletics took the LTjIlilj series in 1910 from the Cubs and in Jlilv 1911 and 1913 from tno Glant8i and MliWl the Bed Sox boat the Giants in 1912. jyn There was no so called jockeying on N , tho part of our league to get revenge". IlllflP I It was simply through tho regular Kifl 1 course of events that the Braves hap-Ill hap-Ill 1 pened to win last year, entirely be-ll'll be-ll'll li cause George Stalllngs developed a lull great team out of the material he al-irnul al-irnul ready had. mm I "Having become so used to seeing Iclll' is team triumph in the big classic, jjljjjl Johnson was all broken up over his kill defeat yast year. I do not absolutely Mil! know anything about tho inside of it, fljjjujr hut It looks a whole lot to me as if llli Ban has made desperate efforts to get nlfip revenge this season. Not being ab- SI i solutelj' sure which one of the three MM leading clubs will win the pennant, he lljj seems to have adopted the expedient i ji j & ' of strengthening tho entire trio in tho t'jU hope that, no matter which wins, it fill wl1 be abI to beat our entrJ' y J Thore has been so much' wholesale ill d buying of crack players by the Big hj M Three of the American League that II 11 one facet,ous ew York writer has K'1 M i penned a paragraph" thusly: "The ttlHjj Boston Red Sox, the Tigers and tho If f White Sox are still running neck and nM neck in the American League selling dlflW lace.'l rlfilfl Nearly every baseball writer in the html country has been moved to sharp In criticism of the epidemic of buying ;j and selling that has resulted in unbal- l ancing the field. Interest in the sec- i J fl j ond division cities Cleveland, St. U ' Louis and Philadelphia more than in JH New York has sank to its lowest I-IIh possible ebb since nearly all of the JHH ew rema,nlnB good ball players on L'j H! their teams have been transferred. illli They have remarked how the com- Itlli mercial sido of the game has thus ijR been brought into public prominence U14 j still more than before and the com-ili com-ili mercial side was flouted onough in ; JH the times of the Players' Fraternity, 1 j the Federal League, jumping and sulk-ijJflH sulk-ijJflH ing employes and court brawls, ijlflfi I The principal additions to the Red fill Sox ln recent da-ys are Shortstop Jack 111 Barry from tho Athletics and Catcher II j Sam Agnew from the Browns. Dell De-ll troit has added Bill James of the I HI Browns to Its pitching staff. The ijlJIJ biggest buy, of all, however, was Joo IBM Jackson by the White Sox from Clove- J I land. The price paid for tho big slug- II l Eer has been estima-ted variously all ifjll tue way from $15,000 up to $30,000 'jjfll 'th several socond class men thrown ,n I in to Increase the sum total. II' I Tho taIkatIve National Leaguer, ill who iB connccted with a club that has Ufl hopes of winning the pennant in Its MM circuit, goes on with his discourse in 1 a changed tone of voice. "Ban John- 11 soa may strenethen his league leaders wfil a11 ho wIsnes but Jt is no cinch his 'llil ' eventual champion will be able to beat II OUrs He mlBnt eve Pick an all star HI . team from his entire league, and yet lUi that bunch would have Its hands full JU Teamwork is the biggest factor in a IH 6nort battlo Uke a world's series-Ill series-Ill teamwork and pitching. Any one of Iff ' lir most IIlcel5r candidates would bo !01 ablo to present a stiff; front on the DBS mound. iH om11,8!26 up Boston. Brooklyn and ill Philadelphia of our league for a short III Beries, and you will notice plenty of llfil strength for each one of them. The IN Braves with the wonderful flghUng 1 spirit will not -admit anybody super-I super-I I ior, and they also have a pitching 1 staff that is likely to provide shutouts I ! ?r, "-shutouts in every game of a I brief clash, with Rudolph, Tyler, Dav- . .?, bai., mm nugnes nt and Bill H J James about ready to take his turn H t . again. The Phillies could pitch Grov- I I er Alexander every other day if they H ? n ?e Sones and, believo me, any ' team that over lived would have H I 0ubKle u!"dllne that obstacle. Brook- 'i J,rh?8 P best balanced pitching , staff in the whole league and when I the rest of the team ia going ?ight can If J lhe CVer off the ball. Thf Dog I Vs U ?e of thelr speaks rise to m ' greater heights than any club n th , American League and might take e ?rytm by,an overwhelming score I . T. th COrrCCt W0S0d H I ii 0'. l don t know f Johnson's U,r m KUnS I. for the purpose or beaUni or not. It looks that wav W N I LTiLMf d0,,ns S0- h "S't'ear that B , h6 is throwing any scare into us For H , ?art' Iwould ratr have my team H Jne"an all'5tar Club lhan a SfdlSS |