Show i speaking of sports night baseball fads hit b by y yankee chief by ROBERT IMMUNE BIcSI IANE beof RDWARD DWARD G BARROW president of the new york yankees in his latest from the baseball front has evidenced complete disinterest in the many save the game from oblivion suggestions made by various diamond messiahs the president of the world champions seems quite well satisfied with things as they are in fact he remarked that outside of a couple of young pitchers you can say im almost tempted to go along as is returning from a southern vacation barrow was emphatic in stating that hat he is not inte interested rested in getting hank flank greenberg from detroit in night baseball for the yankee stadium during the he 1940 season in other fads or in breaking up the yankees or selling em either barrow believes the yanks can win their fifth straight pennant without making a single change A lot of club owners incidentally go along with him on this belief he does admit that the yanks may have to bolster a bit here and there but only after winning five straight six day weeks night baseball and postseason post season play offs or major league play offs were rapidly disposed of by barrow he pointed out that gate receipts for baseball have increased per cent in ia the past 20 years why then he asked go in for any newfangled new ideas the game has prospered through regularity and dignity to tinker with those factors would be dangerous to the welfare of the game lighting 0 17 a fad he has little fondness for either night baseball or the day off the idea of a six day playing schedule A EDWARD G BARROW has nothing particular to recommend it night baseball is a fad and upsetting to the players the umpires and to the news newspapers papers not to mention club officials their fellow townsmen the giants who had been among the foremost opponents of night baseball have capitulated the success the brooklyn dodgers have had with night ball plus the fact that their own attendance tell fell considerably last year have made the giants see the be light prior to this they not only were opposed to night ball in new york but were the only national league club that play it on the road the giants broke down when they saw the dodgers attendance figures that club played to more than a million customers and more than of them were counted in the seven night games played in ebbets field in cash that amounted to exactly reasons why master william terry decided to play ball under the maddas yanks can wait terry was the giants strongest holdout against night ball horace stoneham the president and leo bondy vice president and treasurer were believed to have been in favor of the innovation barrow pressed by the necessity of installing a lighting fighting system other ball clubs may have to resort to artificial devices to drum up box office trade but the yanks continue to be one of the most talked of of baseball teams in the games history As long as they can keep on winning championships get crowds barrow knows that and as a business man is ahre shrewd wd enough to let other clubs conduct the experiments Us if as is thought in some quarters night ball is just a fad then the yanks management will have saved a suitcase ase full of money at any rate the champs are sitting in the golden seat at the present they can continue to play championship pion ship baseball and attract crowds whether they play in the aiters aitern afternoon oon or at night and if the pape experiment ariment tor for night baseball is still in that st stage age proves successful the yan yanks ks will climbs climb on the kilowatt band wagon but mr B barrow zt arow would do well to tat the horseless carriage rca ra ge was considered a mere fari fad long after old dobbin first ran away it t the sight of one sport shorts HE cincinnati reds sank more THE than into new pi players ayers last season spent gaining control of the birmingham southern association team and paid 40 for vince biag dimaggio ailsworth EIls worth r vines better known as a tennis player is making good in golf he is a one bandic handicap player in california and recently fired a four under par 68 in a pasadena den tournament recently horses sired by ellsworth vines man bowar 0 war have won more than for their owners mel me hein new york giants center is playing his ninth season in national pro football four seasons short of the record established by george trafton of the chicago bears neutral observers declare that ohio state has the best bunch of block ers the western conference has seen in 15 years bert bell who seem able to make the philadelphia eagles win declares coaching is the most overemphasized profession with material you win without it you dont all there is to it he says oscar stanage of the 1911 tigers holds the record for errors by a catcher in one season he was responsible for 41 though they won the game iowa players like all others who have faced him rank william bud kerr notre dame left end the hardest wingman tried to handle this season hes also a fine pass grabber alfred G vanderbilt one of the nations most prominent horsemen bet on the races jack eichler case university guard played every minute of his teams first three games this season arturo godoy joe louis next opponent says he will kayo the bomber with a left hook dont stop him if youve heard that one before the violent vols dare dixieland pIXIE LAND football enthusiasts are calling major bob neyland of tennessee university the greatest coach since knute rockne and terming this years volunteers the best team in the proud history of the school the 1938 vols were a great football team it piled up points against 16 to defeat 10 straight opponents beating oklahoma big six champions 17 to 0 in the orange bowl this years record is equally impressive jock sutherland former pittsburgh coach saw the vols whip alabama and described them as the nearest thing to a perfect team he ever saw from 1926 to 1932 seven consecutive years Terin tennessee essee teams missed perfect records by the margin of only one heartbreaking game g ame the seven y year ear record was marred by two losses and five tie games this year though Tennes sees schedule as tough as most of the nations outstanding teams no one will deny the vols the glory that is theirs |