Show Sport Snap Shots By Jack Keen Keeno The national commission lIlon will recommend rec- rec omm nd to tho the big lea leagues ues at their oJ annual meeting next month that hat the a player limit In lii both circuits be bo reduced reduced rea re- re p to eighteen players The Tho main idea of or the moguls in int I t proposing in the cut of or course Is 13 to re- re duco expenses so their profits will be larger Hut But I reaH realty really believe tho the public will lake tak kindly to the change The reduction of or tho the limit would have two major effects It would eliminate the specialists specialists- the m men n nho who ho earn their mone money casU easily b by sitting on the bench two-thirds two o of I the time It would tend to end th the practice of ot keeping young oung players on the bench for tor a a. season or two until the they gain experience rather than part with the players The bell belief t that specialists In dif tilt different ferent points of ot the tho game aro are needed to perfect a a. winning organization Is Isa Isa isa a fall fallacy a C I really believe belle that the moguls have known this but realized that the acquisition of ot certain special special- lets gave their teams publicly especially espe- espe daily at off oCl times and therefore maintained main maln- 1 tamed the high limits rank Frank Chance and anti Fielder Jones won pennants a R. dozen years ago aso without any priced high-priced bench warmers Eight Eight- een cen en players were sufficient for them The rhe majority of ot fans tans I believe bellevo will say ay that the standard of ot the game g was higher then thon than It has been since Lowering the tha limit would produce more good around all players Managers Man Man- agers could l not depend on extra etra play play- players us ers rs to hit certain kinds ot of pitching or dr bat whenever a rt sacrifice fly ly or the squeeze play was needed er E Every player will be bo made to realize real real- ize that he must Include In his rep roper reper r- r Loire toire every angle of ot the game And then here is another mother angle Americas America s manhood haH has been trained Under fit fir fiN to face race fearlessly an any con con- i that arises arises any any crisis met I Generals In the war had no to halt a battlo lon long enough to o send in pinch hitters or sacrifice experts experts The men who started the I advance ad went through h with it The rhe men men- who fought over o there and the men merl who were trained to fight ht t J over Oer here w will III want to see ce the pla players player ers and n managers sh sho show 0 the same go s through with it l spirit in baseball |