Show S S. S o S J T 1 Il I I Golf Racing Loom as' as Hardest Hit Hi HitI I Survey Puts Three Sports Up NEW YORK Jan 8 INS INS INS- Now that the sports world In the east eastern rn area at least has had time timeto timeto timeto to sit down and think things over just what will this 0 O P A ban on pleasure driving mean to it in the year to come A survey by International News service disclosed today 1 Golf will suffer most from fan participation and racing probably probably ably will suffer the most loss In revenue 2 Such sidelines as fishing hunting and trotting probably willbe will willbe willbe be completely abolished as major pastimes 3 Football and tennis probably will feel the effects to a more serious extent than they did In 42 but will be able to continue on a reasonably active scale Three Boom Doom Sports But baseball basketball and track and field probably will boom George W W. Blossom Jr president president president dent of the United States Golf association association association as as- said Its perfectly obvious obvious obvious ob ob- that golf golt w will ll be hurt more than any other sport Hundreds of millions of dollars are tied up In golf clubs and courses far from any public conveyance Some of them always on the borderline financially will have an awful time surviving But I know they'll do everything they can to exist not only as a patriotic gesture but with an eye to the future Ford Frick president of the National National National Na Na- league was positive baseball baseball baseball base base- ball would be helped rather than hindered by the new restrictions The game should attract a lot of new fans who cannot get to their favored sport or recreation he said All National league parks with the possible exception of Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Cin Cin- are easy to reach by street streetcar car bus or subway We have found that most of the town out trade enjoyed by the Giants and Dodgers is what we call train trade the the- people who came to New York for pleasure pleas pleas- ure or business on trains There may be a a. fall falling ng off of this trade In Chicago and St St. Louis but I strongly believe these cities willm willmore will willmore m more re than make up for that in the their 1 town home trade No Phony Players Frick having thought thought over Man Power Commissioner Paul McNutt's Mc- Mc McNutt's Nutts Nutt's assertion that baseball is no not an an essential industry plucked a silver lining from the clo clouds ds surrounding surrounding sur sur- surrounding rounding the sport Mr McNutt says no player will be exempted from the draft on the ground he is a a. ball player You can be certain tain next season every man you see in a baseball uniform has a legitimate right to be doing what he is is doing Will Harridge of or the American league refused to com com- ment Dan Ferris president of the A AU U and Holcombe Ward president dent of the United States Lawn Tennis association said their organizations organizations or or- expected to stage their major track and tennis events respectively re respectively respectively re- re again this year Ferris pointed out that track events usually are held in arenas or on on college grounds easily reached by ordinary transportation lines and said the demand for tickets to the annual Melrose games at Madison Square Garden in February was bigger than ever Big tournaments will continue to tobe be played at Forest Hills the Triple St St. Louis the River Forest club Chic Chicago goi the Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land club and in Los Angeles said Ward Racing is is' in the worst whirl of all With some 1500 horses including in including in- in eluding the worlds world's champion money winner stranded strand strand- ed in Florida and the officials o of Florida Maryland and New York busy trying to make plans to keep the old gray mare running for the various tax bureaus no on one e is quite sure what to the outcome will be Fair Grounds track at New Orleans Or Or- leans undoubtedly will be the chief chie beneficiary of the Florida shutdown shut shut- down with sever several l stables trying to book transportation space t to ship their racers to that track The Florida officials pleaded that the shutting down of the Hialeah Hla Hia- leah leap and Tropical park tracks which contributed over a million dollars in taxes last year would woul d seriously impair the budgets fo fc for support of the states state's public school l system and its old age pension funds In Maryland Governo Governor r Herbert R. R OConnor O'Connor who said th the state received from racing rac rac- ing In n 1942 declared he would g go before the state legislature 1 it necessary and request legislation n to permit the sport to continue May 1 Shift Dates New York and Maryland bo bot both h contemplated plans for shifting th the e racing dates of tracks not served serve by ordinary transportation line lines to others that are The local racing rac rac- ing commission is expected to as ask the state legislature to increase e the tracks' tracks take from 40 pe per percent r cent to 50 per cent In 43 In orde order r to help such tracks as Saratoga a to continue If It such legislation Isn't passed posse there is a good chance both Saratoga Sara Sara- toga and Empire City which I is located In Yonkers N. N Y will no not open but will have their date dates transferred to either the Belmon Belmont i park Jamaica or Aqueduct tracks track Summing up It wont won't be th the e qu quality of the sport that will attract at at- a er tract Gus H. H Fan in 43 but rathe rather r the most obvious question of th the e year tar How long will it t take t to get there 7 |