Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-13 | Page 8 | Standard-Examiner Readers Will Select Most Valuable Player in Major League

STANDARD-EXAMINER HEADERS I WILL SELECT MOST VALIUM PLAYER IN MAJOR LEJtt Commission of Experts Named to Select Hit American League; Evans Plan Is SUre Route to Argument; What Is Your Offering II HO is the most valuable player in baseball? W Billy Evans asks that questioii. A commission i5 J try to decide in the American League The Standard-Examiner is going to piek the leading dates for that office in BOTH leagu. Beginning tomSJ will offer you its choice for the honor on all major league I Watch for'them. Every- day. BY BILLY EVANS. WHO is baseball's most valuable playerl li 's a question that, season after season, has siirred up argument. It's going to be answered difinitHy in the American UaJ season. Arrangements had been made to answer it also in I tional, bul the National League moguls later voted down thj sil inn A commission of experts is being ;ip-pointed, ;ip-pointed, and it will be ihe dutyf this body to cast otes on the various can-didates. can-didates. The exports will name their own candidates and place them in the order of their value. Tn a list of eight, as submitted, the lop man will recelxe eight votes, tho second man seven, and so on. tlu dghth man receiving one vote. The votes of all the experts th-n will be assembled, the man receiving the most votes In tho total getting lh honor. 1 Several years ago thus was tried In the American league. An uuto WUB awarded to the winner. Ty Cobb didn't worry much about (he price of auto- mobiles for some time thereafter. A prise worth $1000 will be award' d this 1 year. Trying to select tho most valuable bill player Is like trying to nann- the greatest fighter in all classes, like try ing to pn i h. . 1 itest tenrdii bull player, 11 is, uftr alLi of opinion. ' i'ou can pick the lcadlni li the year in o:ich leagao ih run scorer, the leading haj J 1 h. r. I-; ,m 1 lung :oncrei bul hen it 1 omes iu most alui bb ba I .!af.r nothing real and conclusive i Vnu ha'. 0 nothing in favor of d didate that cannot be used fl other andldate. Regardb ss of -.he drawback proposition, it has a certala n ' i. u nothing surer ti ion than an attempt toi U idi r In any given llntt oil -n.l- ivor. The (hvj, ari !al and each man shouts hn cpi argues for his candidate, 50 J ight now and beat t ' mission to it.