Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1917 — LAY-OFF WILL HELP MINORS [ARTICLE]

LAY-OFF WILL HELP MINORS

Suspension of Schedules Is Probably Best Thing That Could Have Happened to Them. . The suspension of schedules by a number of the minor leagues is probably the best thing that’ could have happened for them under existing conditions. Population In the minor —league cities is comparatively small if you count the baseball fans alone, and in war time the tendency to conserve finances is greater in the small cities and towns than in cities of the first class. In addition to this, the baseball population in the larger cities is large enough to keep a ball club running at a small profit. • For the lack of this the minor league nfttgnate is always up against It when times become panicky, and without baseball for the remainder of 1917 and probably throughput the, season of 1918, if the war continues, the minor league fans will have time to recover their balance and will be baseball hungry when the parks are opened once fiore.