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Show Pro Football May End Grid War By Pat Eobtsswa NEW YORK, Oet M (TNS) The stags appeared set Wednesday Wednes-day tor aa and to the ruinous professional pro-fessional football war. Last week, Dan Topping of the New York Yankees of the All American conference waved aa olive branch In the general direction direc-tion of the rival National football foot-ball league. Wednesday several members of the NFL Indicated that they would be willing to talk peace at the end of the current season. The National leaguers still cannot can-not envisage a two-league setup even after a peace pact has been signed. But they would Uke to see one league of perhapa 11 teams. " divided equally - bet ansa east and west. -Bete. Dropped . "We had two real bar to any peace last year," said this owner. "One was ths fact that Baltimore had been guaranteed it would have a club for two years. That contract ends this year. "Another was that Branch Rickey and his Dodgers had some two-year contract players who had to be taken care of. This baa been done through amalgamation with the Yankees. That difficulty, too, will have passed with this season, "Nobody can make any money under the present setup. No Treoblee "With one wen-knit league, we would have no draft troubles, en horbltant bidding for college boys services would cease, and salaries would level off to a point where the teams could survive. "And think of the natural rivalries rival-ries that could be built up, such as, for Instance, the Yanks versus ths Giants In Nsw York. "Take my word for It, at the end of this season you will sse all sitting down to talk turksy and there won't be any popping off by anybody or challenges from one side to the other." |