Show OPEN WAR AR LOOMS ON BASEBALL HORIZON Maj Majors rs May Make War on Recalcitrant Minor League Teams By William J. J Chipman Universal Service Staff Correspondent NEW NEV YORK Jan 16 Baseball war Is not so o far off orf as the surface indications of tranquillity indicate One influential major league club owner own own- er er whose opinion always guides many of his colleagues was asked what the majors v would do as a last resort If the class AA circuits a and ard d the Tear ey leagues persisted persist persist- ed 7 In n refusing Defusing to accept the draft even at Its Increased price Make war on em thundered the owner hanging the table with his fist CAN BEAT EASTERNERS This is the point to which the major leagues feel they have been forced and while neither the American association nor the International league Is in position tion to defend itself against a major league raid of or its players players and and certainly little circuits are not not we we are Inclined to believe that the Pacific Coast league would not finish second best in such a fight with the majors Conditions now on the Golden Coast are vastly different from twenty years ago when a struggling outlaw league existed with San Francisco and Los Angeles as its sole support COAST IS RIVAL Dr McCarthys McCarthy's league today has money population and a good brand of baseball 1 Located in the most rapidly developing section Action of the country o It is certain that the Pacific Coast circuit must eventually become a major Any warlike action by the present majors would servo serve only to hasten this development The Pacific Coast league of ot today is the only potential one of ot all the big minors Pair Fai r and experienced baseball authorities from the coast admit frankly that the grade of ball in their circuit falls fails somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what short even of the mediocre pastime the majors have offered since the war With the intention of becoming a major league openly avowed ved and set before its eyes as a goal the Pacific Coast league with its foundation could quickly take talce enough playing playing- talent from the majors majors ma ma- jors to realize Its ambition these writers add From an unbiased standpoint It certainly certain certain- ly seems that Dr McCarthys McCarthy's league has nothing to gain by accepting a a. draft draft draft-at at or any other figure while figure while achievement achievement achievement achieve achieve- ment of its lifelong ambition appears to lie He in refusing |