Sport: Boston’s Plaint

Coincident with the opening of the third successive World’s Series exclusive to New York, came (and not without reason) a wail from Boston. The Boston clubs are to be ” investigated.” The strength of the great New York teams has come mainly as a result of shrewd marketing at the Hub.

Pitchers McQuillan, Nehf and Watson, Catcher Gowdy—the main battery strength of the Giants—came from the Boston Braves. Of the Yankees, Pitchers Pennock, Jones, Hoyt, Mays and Bush, Catcher Schang, Basemen Dugan and McNally, Short Stop Scott, and Fielders Ruth and Smith were sold down the Harlem River by the Boston Red Sox. Placing Ruth on first base, and Mays and Hoyt in the outfield, the New York Americans would have virtually a championship team bought from Boston!

Boston citizens and Boston newspapers asserted they had been cheated out of a World’s Series. Citizens and writers in the other cities asserted that the financial preponderance of the New York teams is a menace to the future of baseball.