Show Chicago Fans See Gloomy 1951 I By GRANTLAND RICE UNHAPPY BASEBALL CITY once the home of Frank the peerless and his famous is again turning to without too many golden Both the Cubs and White Sox have known their fame but not Frank Frisch has done all anyone could expert him to with what he has and It's still material shortage for the White Sox that cuts them One question around here is this will Branch Rickey do for the Pi- any h a r since they are as as L. a team can I be a big help by He still has more Grantland Rice actual baseball brains than anyone connected with the when you look back over his But not even a Rickey can do every thing at It might be remembered alto that war clouds and the draft can make a terrific difference in the two 1951 Already a number of shining young stars have traded baseball uniforms for khaki the bat for a This will soon begin to double and It will work harder on younger teams than older Looking over the two leagues how can any one expect any of the second division teams to break into the upper Indians and Red Sox will still be the class in the American league next Giants and Braves will remain in the first division of the National as far as anyone can except that the Giants have a good chance to win the They had the best team in their league down the The loss of Branch Rickey isn't going to help Brooklyn although Fresco Thompson is a capable field But years are needed to get any baseball savvy and this means years of actual work as the head Brooklyn fans want a I gang of fighters like they were in 1 the old but they also want to win Notre Dame and Next Year Chicago is a hot Notre Dame This affection goes back to the early years of Knute A bad Notre Dame year is a bad football year for many Chicago football Now they are wondering about Notre Dame and For one thing Bob Williams will be missing and Bob the star from was the team's main star In 1949 and Ills passing was about 70 or 80 per cent of Notre Dame's attack with the material and such don't come along every There are strong rumors around that Notre Dame is getting ready to shed part of her football Scholarships have been reduced quite we are One point is that Notre Dame Is really a magnificent Many of her leaders think the educational and cultural side has been overshadowed by football at is the idea you From now on Notre Dame will have good football but they won't be so Notre Dame loses good men after this season and so far apparently no Connors or are on the freshman It is lucky that Notre Dame still has Frank Leahy and his able coaching Leahy did all anyone could do with limited material as full proof that all too often it is still the material that writes most of the winning Notre Dame has an even tougher schedule next As we understand it the South Bend platoon takes on and other strong southwestern where football may have its deepest Indiana will be So will Michigan So will Purdue and It is much too early to start writing Notre Dame out for But it will be a big job to go through next season's hard march without a few The Pittsburgh Mystery Pittsburgh turns out to be one of the deeper mysteries of this mystery will last through Three years ago a new crop of owners arrived and started scattering coin in every known Having no farm system ready to deliver young the Pirates paid high prices for anything they could get But around September 12 of 1948 the Pirates suddenly turned in the direction of The odd part is that Pittsburgh fans didn't desert The Pirates drew well over a million fans in 1949 and 1950 in spite of their lowly Each year they started slowly and then got But the gate remained above many other teams that were in the race from start to |