Show DEFORE the record season just L closed it had always seemed to us that baseballs game s schedule should have been cut to games As a general rule all interest z has been withering on the september vine tor for g 12 or 14 of the major league entries the year 1946 has told a different story I 1 in the way of attendance 1 figures fiame but certainly not elou enough gh to justify any 14 game in ty colb cobb crease to contests as proposed by a few club owners with the wild rush to sport after the war or this has been an abnormal year you get the main idea when I 1 the phillies a ta tall I end contender could approach the million mark at home most major league clubs cluba play at least 32 exhibition games the 10 game menu would therefore give ball players games to handle between early march and october this is more than most ball players can absorb without going stale three hours of baseball each day seems easy work but three I 1 hours of hustling competitive sport each afternoon or night is another story even with the game schedule the number of weary injured be draggled dragg led ball players placers Is something greater than you might think ty cobb told me once that games was about all any hard playing hustler could handle in the old days ty said 1 I a hold out I 1 simply d need or want all that early training and all of those exhibition games I 1 hunted all winter and kept my legs in shape I 1 remember in 1911 1 I join the tigers until they reached ached evansville six days before the season opened that year I 1 hit for and stole 83 bases as aa I 1 I 1 recall it one answer was that I 1 I 1 was still keen and fresh in august end and september when a lot of the others were stale and tired danger of staleness Stat eness this seems to make sense no athlete athlea who has lost h his s keenness who has grown stale can be of 0 much help the right sort of ball player will keep in shape all winter through golf gol or hunting the spring pring training and the spring exhibition hibi tion campaign has been badly overdone add 14 extra ball games to the present list and it will mean more baseball than most players could handle and still retain the badly needed bustle also with the additional 14 games suggested ball players salaries should be lifted from 10 to 15 per i cent over the game pay with the record attendances 1946 has offered you can look fo for r a rousing sarp scrap on the part of the ball player for a big jump even at games but who Is going to see that the ball player gets this percentage increase above the demand he might make for the present schedule roughnecks Rough necks in the ring it was james J corbett a great boxer and the smartest fighter the game has ever known in or out of the ring who first set a rather sour example by being known as gentleman jim for the ring Is no spot for a gentleman n or anything approaching the he same and jim corbett was no gentleman eng in any ring he told me this himself the gentleman has his club or his box at the opera or tr track ack but he is out ot of place it remained for or hughey keogh years ago to tell the true story there was no high finance about the game of spoiling mugs when the dear old tub from boston was the king when we ne paid our honest tribute to the other tanks and jugs and the soiree with the raw luns uns was the thing fighting bade adieu to it its s traditions long ago and kissed its grimy hand to sentiment when johen they took it to the steam heat from the hall I 1 and nd rain and snow and a champion aspired to be a gent I 1 still recall a story jim corbett once told me jim was fighting joe chodynski Choyn ski on a barge barg I 1 nailed him in the ninth round airn im said and joe tell fell to the floor I 1 stooped and lifted him up the cheers were terrific but I 1 lifted him so I 1 could nail him again before he recovered then the boos were terrific V gentleman jim corbett also knew his game dempsey the killer jack dempsey at heart was about as close to being a gentleman outside the ring as anyone ive known anoia a but only outside the ring there he was kind generous thoughtful and courteous inside the ring he was a killer anything went 1 I saw him once giving max baer it a few lessons you cant do that baer said its luceal illegal you can get away with lt it once dempsey said cald 1 I have I 1 |