Show 0 rao q THERE is a certain change due m the setup of baseball baseballs s two major loops no sane person who knows sport can deny that los angeles and san francisco are far better sporting centers thata than most of the major league cities now occupying the standing of the clubs los angeles in many ways is well belond new york and chicago on a general average averaged it outdraws both at racing and football to name two lead ing sports ive I 1 t 14 seen 93 at a rose bowl game in nearby pasadena and on the same i afternoon over 65 were at the santa anita race track given any sort ol 01 competition Grantland Grantlan Bice dRice in football los an geles can turn out from 80 to san francisco isn t far away both los angeles and san francisco are also sport keen and arid sport conscious to a high degree they are far beyond at least 10 big league centers for that matter baltimore is also a much better big league spot than many teams now listed when you look over attendance records at browns park in st louis ranging from to 1100 you get the answer the shift has to come at an early date a act fact which a number of 0 sleepy or half awake big league magnates will have to swallow no matter how little they like the medi cine clue there has been a big change in major league baseball which can have some interesting develop ments A few years ago only the he winner in a big city could pass the one million attendance mark in one year you had to have a winner or at least a good ball club to make any money today cellar cham chain or cellar challengers can pass the one million roundup owners no longer need good ball clubs to have big years this easily can lead to a big letdown in the way ol 01 any finan cial incentive Se sectional atonal strength football began in the east where for more than 30 years yale harvard princeton and perm penn sylvania had most of the all ameri cans and the strongest teams the first strong outside challenge came from hurry up yost s fast and powerful wolverines around 1901 but even then the east was well in the lead when you look back to the days of tom shevlin gordon brown and big jim hogan of yale dewitt of princeton graydon of harvard and many others who wore the orange and black or the red and blue from 1901 through 1904 michigan was the national leader twenty years ago the tide turned westward as stanford southern Cali california forma and california came along with such able coaches as pop warner howard jones and andy smith these were great days on the pacific slope where such teams as ohio state pittsburgh army and others were badly man handled by western speed and power in the last few years there has been another shift the two strong est football sections in the country today are the midwest and the south the argument between these two sections in the last few years has developed more smoke than a burning oil well with a consider able amount of flame attached the leader in the Mid midwestern uprising was notre dame with haute rockne leading the charge but notre dame has since been joined by michigan ohio state illinois indiana minnesota wisconsin and others who have shown solid strength there is one debate that is full of ringing tones and vocal cataclysms how would the 10 best teams from the south finish against the big nine plus notre dame for reasons of their own these two rival football sectors leave out the east the far west and the southwest in the matter of general team strength south caught up fast after a slow start start the south first derived its upward move from such coaches as dan mcgugin wallace wade barme bierman frank thomas jack heisman and bin bill alexander later bob neyland came along to add new coaching strength also carl snavely and a few others once under way the south moved in a hurry to take its place around the front row long after the mid west had moved up what chance would the 10 best teams from dixie have against the big nine and notre dame notre dame would give the midwest a rousing breakaway from the bar rier but the south has a stout ment to offer her 10 selections would come from georgia north carolina L S U alabama duke kentucky tulane vanderbilt ten bessee auburn mississippi and mississippi state north carolina state virg nia and one or two others |