Show I Minors Have Legitimate Squawks I By GRANTLAND RICE 1 THE WEST COAST is on the edge of unless big-league baseball does something about its There are more sides to this argument than an octopus has The west coast thinks it should be the third big One argument Is that Los Angeles Is bigger than three cities now enjoying this so-railed San Francisco is no minor-league But neither Is Baltimore or Buffalo or Houston or other cities now rated In the minor-league After there is only one Los Angeles and one San Francisco on the coast other barrier Is the t And no one can i m or even I ball parks Grantland Rice The west coast has one deserved They build up some popular star and the big leagues either make them sell said star or else they draft This is not so pleasant for the west coast It isn't so pleasant for the American Association or the International League or other strong leagues But no one has worked out a It isn't any too pleasant for Montreal to have three or four popular stars hauled back to Brooklyn In The main wonder Is that with the plus there Is any minor-league baseball One answer Is that It Is crumbling rapidly and there will soon be little Certainly Los Angeles and San Francisco are far above many big league cities in population and sport How many big-league cities could draw to a football game or to a race track on a single On New Year's i he Rose Bowl will play to ind Santa Anita will entertain or But the problem of a third major league is a neavy The problem of the draft is a heavy But if a young star was never sold or he would never reach the big Same Old Problem Television offers the same tangle on the Pacific coast that it offers everywhere It cost west coast college teams from to a game In the matter of Only the top affairs had the old-time Television in Pacific coast No one knows what the future has to All they know Is that to day television Is a wrecking Institution for the smaller people in It is crushing out their Minor leagues and minor football games are being wiped Army has played to capacity plus television this Down in and the Longhorns have filled the stadiums with television thrown Notre Dame crowds have held up despite television and a poor Michigan had its games televised last year and played to capacity for six home This year without television is banned in the Big the Wolverines total was but for the same number of games at AU of which proves nothing from a television standpoint for the ticket sales declined because of Michigan's d Figuring an crowd this week-end at Ohio the Wolverine total will reach spectators for nine But these are only a few from the vast Why pay out good money for a smaller when they bring you a much bigger show for It might be said here that will have Its trouble at the winter meeting and there can be no answer that will please Football also has its television This new instrument has suddenly stirred up more trouble than Noah's flood once brought to the Everyday an endless number of new sets are being which only adds to the numbers of the stay at homes without any These don't help the sport Case of Joe DiMaggio Ty Cobb came from Babe Ruth from Tris Speaker and Rogers Hornsby from the overwhelming state of Here are four of baseball's But Toe and Dom DiMaggio report from San and San Francisco takes as much pride in these two stars especially Joe as any city could feel about a In San Francisco they move Joe up with Cobb and They ask you around the Golden Gate how much longer Joe DiMaggio can carry Who can More than a few of the sombre inspectors were saying back in June last summer that Joe was reaching or had reached the end of the But DiMaggio answered by hitting the rest of the way and playing in bail Joe DiMaggio was born November He is 36 years He broke in with San Francisco in 18 years ago He reported to the Yankees in and since then has played In over ball |