CORRUPTION OF SPORT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3594, 5 October 1920, Page 6

CORRUPTION OF SPORT.

THE BASEBALL SCANDAL. NEW YORK, October 2. j A strong reaction is occurring, i against illicit baseball. Many managers of large baseball teams are endorsing a plan to have a National Commission, composed of Messrs. Taft and McAdoo and General Leonard Wood (an aspirant for Republican Presidential nominations), which w-ould administer professional baseball along reorganised' lines. There has been loss of interest in the coming World’s series, which is played annually between the winning teams of the American and National baseball Leagues for the supremacy of that sport in America. This year the Cleveland team (of the American League) and the Brooklyn team (of the National League) will contest. The prosecuting attorney of Brooklyn examined Ithe members of the Brooklyn team and declared them bona fide . It is expected a similar examination will be made of the Cleveland team in order to assure the pub- I lie that the World series will be above | board. }