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Runner-Up Game Still Unconfirmed Sox, Braves Insist Flags Paramount Post-Season Contest, Under Sponsorship of Daily News, Would Be Played Sept. 28 By the United Press The Chicago Daily News said today that the Milwaukee Braves and Chicago White Sox have agreed to play a post-season game under the newspapers sponsorship for baseballs runner-up title. The News said the game would be played at Comiskey Park in Chicago the night of September 28, day after the season ends. In event of rain it "would be played September 29, on the eve of the World Series. Neither Frank Lane, general manager of the White Sox, nor general manager John Quinn of the Braves would confirm the arrangement. Both said their clubs were concentrating on the pennant race. "We are too much concerned with an all-out effort to overtake the Yankees and win the American League race," said Lane, "to talk about a post-season game now." At Milwaukee, Quinn said, "Were too busy and too concerned with trying to win the National League pennant to think about anything else." The News acknowledged that the agreement would be contingent upon neither team winding up as a pennant-winner. Pennant Chances Slim Each of the two teams is in second place, in itsleague, eight games out. Each has a mathematical chance to win, but a slim one at best. The News said receipts from the postseason contest would be split between the players and the Daily News Veterans Fund. It said the players would divide their share of the purse on a 60-40 win-or-lose basis. The News said President Will Harridge of the American League had voiced approval of the post-season game, and quoted National League president Warren Giles as saying he could see "no objection." "We will take it up at the meeting of the executive council in New York, August 21," the News quoted Giles. At NewY"ork, baseball commissioner Ford Frick disapproved the idea of a post-season series on grounds it would conflict with the World Series, but he did not shut the door against the proposal of a single game. John P. Carmichael, Daily News sports editor, said the Sox and Braves are "the most talked-about teams in the country." The two cities are only 90 miles apart," he said, and many Milwaukee fans could be expected to journey to Chicago for the game. Carmichael quoted Harridge as saying the contest would be "a fitting kickoff tor the World Series."
