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Show BLAMES MOVIES FOR SMALL ATTENDANCE After many reapons have been advanced for poor attendance at baseball games this Feason. along comes Dick Egan. the shifty athlete of the Boston Braves, with a" hunch that the movies are largely responsible. re-sponsible. And there is good logic, in Egan's argument. ar-gument. There are. without doubt, a lot of chaps who, instead or spending a quarter for solitary enjoyment at the ball park as in former years, are providing entertainment entertain-ment for the entire family at the movies: for the same amount of money. Egan thinks the movie argument applies ap-plies especially in the minor leagues. In -the major league cities the attendance has been spilt a pood deal between clubs nf organized hasenall and the Federals. The minor leanne clubs, except in a few cases, do not have competition from the Feds, so another reason for poor attend-! anco has to be found. F.gs n seems to have hit the nail on the head. The movies have made a big hit in the I smaller cities of the country, and men. in many, many cases, are sacrificing their ' own pleasure in watching baseball game! so the missus and the kiddies can have some fun. There are a lot of men who can afford j both, but there are a lot of goon" base- t ball fanp who have to keep a pretty close . watch on the nickels and dimes. Egnn has ben busy helping the Braves ge toward the top and lias not been around the minors, but he Is a student of things in general. |