Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-10 | Page 1 | American League Has Prospered

ger crowds this season than in any previous race. " The short schedule, for which the league has always Htood. proved another an-other big success, but steps will be taken at the winter meeting of the league, to arrange a playing schedule that will ring down the curtain on or about Oct. 13. About currying the games into the middle of October, the players and the club managements injure in-jure the popularity of baseball and It always has been the aim of the American Am-erican league to father the short season." AMERICAN LEAGUE HAS PROSPERED Chicago, (let. 10 Reviewing the I 1911 season, B B. Johnson, president ' of the American league. yesterday , said: ! "In every respect the 1910 season J has beep the banner year, of the Am-, Am-, crkan leogue, iKith financially and in the standard of la. Striking fea-: fea-: lines were the openness of the race I until the now champlo.is forged ahead j to a more commanding lead In Sep-I Sep-I tember. ' "While the final figures on attend-I attend-I ance hsve not yet been completed. I the clubs of the league played to blg-I