| Show rB I Backseat k t t I I Driving By Frank I K IC Baker Telegram Sports Editor B Baseball b nM Managers il g Abound in Optimism If It baseball didn't offer anything else it would be worthwhile merely merel for the relief relict it offers from tho the pessimism pessi m m that abounds Ir In football and basket il An optimistic football coach Is as ns difficult to find as a truthful fisher fisher- man nan A pessimistic baseball manager Js is equally as scarce The opening of ot the major leagues this week has been characterized by bythe bythe bythe the customary optimism Not one of the 16 major league bosses is outwardly outwardly outwardly out out- cognizant nt of worse luck than the they had last year ear Rather they unanimously figure ure their club in the thick of the championship fight or fight or at least with a chance for the first division Champions always Ys expect to re re- re peat The up runners express anticipation antici antiel- pation of ousting the champs and the cellar occupants are sure sur they'll va vacate vacate va- va t I cate cat In favor of somebody else Allin All AU AllIn in all its it's a cheerful happy anticipation tion of better times limes that baseball pre pro preen presents rents en its public The team that beats us will know It ft has been In a fi fight is the tM way John McGraw of the Giants puts it Grid Coaches Put On Gloomy Act Things Thing's are arc not pot so ras rosy in the football football football foot foot- ball locker rooms roon A coach may have havea a championship club In the making but he frowns as if his mother-in-law mother were coming to spend the winter at athis athis his liis house The conference all-conference end has just twisted his shoulder or the pound guard who v turned his ankle snide in last weeks week's 45 Jo to o 0 triumph over Podunk Podunk Podunk Po- Po dunk college hasn't been able to practice practice tice ike since and the quarterback forgot forgot for- for got ot to study his bookkeeping so Pro- Pro lessor Jinx ruled him ineligible The opponents haven't won a game came all year long and are are at le least st ten pounds lighter to the man but the gloom is there just the same well lell be lucky to win for it'll be 40 minutes min mEn utes of fighting football and our boys are about due to crack Five regulars graduated last spring they'll be almost impossible to re re- re place Tho Those e and dozens of other pessimistic utterances arc offered in inthe inthe inthe the face of oC 50 stalwarts coming up from the freshman team stran strange e that thata a sport supposed to teach the country's young oun men mento mento mento to think and act quickly to quickly to have hac confidence in their prowess prowess has has t to tobe tobe be so 50 universally char characterized with o 0 gloomy an outlook Even Een the late Rockne became a past master master mas mas- ter In the art of ot predicting defeat and then piloting the Irish to tri trl- trl The Rock of oC Notre Noire Dame perhaps can be excused because of oC the strenuous schedule he faced and the Inexorable toll of at averages which he be forestalled so long but that is no DO excuse for other coaches with breathers coming up to predict predict predict pre pre- dict so 50 many dire dine calamities for their teams kams Football coaches may maywell maywell maywell well catch the baseball spirit and Infuse their pla players eu and fans with the Idea of wel we make mako them fight instead of well tr try to keep from 4 petting getting licked The prospect of ot a team on the offensive Is Ismore Ismore ismore more Interesting than a club on the defensive 9 Majors to Put Put Much I Coin in Circulation Major league baseball even if it draws no better than last summer figures figures figures fig fig- ures to put between nine and ten million rail mil lion ion dollars into circulation during the coming campaign Besides this substantial contribution contribution contribution tion in stimulating the nations nation's business business business busi busi- ness close to under the proposed proposed pro pro- posed new tax bill will be collected by the 10 16 clubs for the benefit of the U. U S. S treasury I Despite these giant proportions and anda a well established organization the big lea leagues es as a whole will be fortunate fortunate fortunate fortu fortu- nate to break even In 1932 Nine of the 16 clubs finished In the red last season and the majority will a again aln face difficulty in steering clear of financial shoals this summer de despite despite de- de spite pite reductions in salaries and player play play- er or limits Cards Make Little Lithe Money Even as Winners The New York Yankees and Giants and end the Chicago Cubs are arc the the only clubs with expectations of ot doing a million dollar business Brooklyn dropped from that class two years ago The world champion Cardinals dont don't clear much even when they win The big show athletes travel in Pullmans Pullmans Pull mans and nd live at the best hotels Hotel Hotel Ho- Ho tel bills for a season run from to a club and railroad expenses expenses ex ex- are more than twice as heavy it It cost National league clubs to haul their players from city to city last summer and the Junior unior circuit got sot by no cheaper Thus It costs at least on the average per club to transport and board the players The c payrolls alone for the two leagues exceed the players accounting for 80 per cent of it It costs at least a day just to open a big bil league park and the teams incur other heavy expenses In their pro ro rata contributions toward maintenance maintenance maintenance nance of the two league organizations as well as S the advisory council headed headed head head- ed cd by K M. M Landis a year commissioner The turnstiles must mast CU cUc t c a brisk rate rat to cover nIl U a overhead overhead over over- head ully when one figures that the Yankees alone admitted dose close to persons free dall dally daily last Bummer cummer ummer Attendance last September Septem Septem- ber her fell of off like leaves leans In autumn when the Athletics and Cardinals ran away from the pack Little wonder then that the club owners hope for cl close se races right to the finish DENVER BEARS DEARS WIN SPRINGFIELD Mo April 11 i C JP- JP The Denver Bears defeated ted the Springfield Western association club 11 to 8 8 in an exhibition game ame here yesterday The Bears poled out 15 hits nits one less than allowed by Ford Peery and Goldst Goldstein co |
