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Show 4 l Hie Suit Lake 'inbuilt-- . 'iliuisuay, .iu. a..-- . The Red Smith Column But Wholl Throw Out the First Ball? By Red Smith New York Times Writer by two other entrepreneurs in less than a do.en years' NEW YORK Five years to the day after C. Arnholt Smith and his daughter gut up J 10 million for Well, Joseph B Danzansky son of a is the fid year-olWashing'on uridi rtaker who began life as a lawyer and now is head of a supermarket chain The story is that when he tecame counsel for Giant hood, Inc , the two families who owned the chain 50 70, named Cohen and Iehrman, each signed over of 1 percent of the stoik IDs percent thus gave him a decidirg voice in the business and ultimately ne was elected president. In sports, Dan Zansky has been connected with harness racing as a member of the Board of Roosevelt Raceway and is a director of tin- San Juan Racing Association operating the thoroughbred track, El CoiriMandaiite. in Puerto Rico He smokes cigars, likes neckties with regimental - National a League l hjM-hul- franchiM-i- San Diego, they sold the club to three guys in WashI) C ington. for $1.' million Orioles and Red Sox tomers that the Red Smith iadu-- laid an egg on the beach but still million more than brought the Yankees cost six mi.r.'hs eailur, tins looks at first glance like another illustration of Soriano s Law that in baseball nothing succeeds like failure (In a single year, Dewey Soriano and his associates converted Seattle into a disaster area and then sold out to Milwaukee interests for ?1()5 million ) This leaves San Diego with the city built for the football Chargers, with no assurance at the tune that a baseball club would move in. The Chargers draw about 50 000 customers seven times a year. The Padres 50.000 average is slightly over 8,000 about 70 times a year. a stadium However, it is not necessaril.so that C Smith and Carol Smith Shannon are getting out on velvet From an cperating profit of something like S'jfi.niiii, they had to pay STDO.imO a year on the loan they swung to establish the Radies And before the sale to Washington can become official they must bail out of a stadium lease that has 15 years to run The possibility that they might have to payoff the city of San Diego was, accoiding to reports, one reason why the price went so high Latest word was that Smith was confident all loose ends could be tied up soon and the the league would approve transfer, leaving only one important question unanswered: who would th aw out the first hall in Robert F. Kennedy Stadium next April? Who, that is, would still be out of jail? Top Man y To be sure, there are other, less significant questions lake who are the men so pure of heart or weak of mind as to pay history's top dollar for the sorriest team in baseball and move it into- a city abandoned v in Wilhg. also a direcEl Coinmandunte, is a Robert Schattner completes the troika A dentist with a flair for chemistry, he a mouth wash developed called Chloraseptic and sold it l to the people (ood Deal ers. Since Bob Short took the Senators to Arlington, Tex., after the 1971 season, the Armory Board which operates Kennedy Stadium has been stuck with a $'J4 million playground used by the football RecKkins for three exhibitions seven and championship games, and for two hospital benefit baseball games matching the Phillies and Pirates, CHALLENGER Dodge Sporty Car 3,111 delivered one-ye- HINCKLEYS DODGE 1000 SOUTH MAIN custom- 644,272 Bavasi's PH. 359-765- 5 Concrete AAA-EEE- 6-1- 8, E In Stock . . No Waiting 013 SHOE - NEW YORK (LTD ExcitGhu Gliu Malave and ing SHOElSTORE Lumpkin, t Monday-nigh- Madison BUY For Wear on Garden Tiff Set at He-sai- management produced a small operating profit. Smith and his daughter held 68 percent of the Padres Rcpto-Bismo- Hay with a Nevertheless, high of Dr meet in a d tele-visio- n An attorney, pipe smoker investment specialist ami real estate developer, he is known to friends as Bottom Line Marv because of his sure instinct fur homing in on the loss statement final profit-anin a balance sheet once-beate- Asked whether the team would be known by Washington names like Senators or Nationals Danzansky called those designations a little outmoded the owners piobably would invite suggestions. Washington Spies would fit tidily in headlines. Individuals close to the San Diego system cite two reasons Presiwhy, as the Padres dent, Buzie Bavasi, puts it, we have never had a honeymoon year: (A) cramped the desert and ocean, Mexico and the California Angels, the club could get only modest income from and radio, (B) the climate encourages participation and San Diego, unlike the Los Angeles area, doesnt have millions to support spectator sports. One Year stripes M.u years two-third- s - tor at 71 al-.- 1 Considering Only once in did baseball draw a million in The club Washington gets all the baseball contev sions revenue and of the football concessions one-hal- , stock and assigned 32 percent to Bavasi, to be paid for out of profits. Since he hasn't yet paid for his shares, Buzzie w ill make only a modest profit from the sale. He has not decided whether to accompany the team east but the guess here is that he will In recent years Washington has held an irresistible attraction for Californians. 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