Show Speaking ng o of 0 f Sports Yankees Face Restrictions in Player Deals By ROBERT RODERT McSHANE EXCEPT for a few thousand down down- with Yankees with the Yankees tes ma jor league baseball fans in general were not too well pleased with the outcome of the big baseball powwow pow wow at Cincinnati recently Major reason for lor their lack of enthusiasm enthusiasm en en- was the fact that the they had seen the American league learue adopt an extraordinary ruling which prohibits its the Yankees as long as the they are champions from Irom obtaining an any players through trade trad or sale from Irom their rival clubs unless such players have been waived by all the clubs In their circuit The new ruling amounts to a sop j to those whose cry has long been Break up the Yankees For the coming year at least the only American league player who could come to the Yankees would be one n p a KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS that no other club in the circuit wanted They can sell but not acquire acquire ac ac- ac quire In their own loop This legislation of 01 course would be invoked against any aDY championship champion champion- ship American league learue team The kindest thing that can cau be staid said of 01 It Itis Itis itIs is that It penalizes success It Is planned restraint against the Yankees Yankees Yankees Yan Yan- kees for lor any future powerhouse of 01 like greatness The Yankees suffered an equally d damaging maging blow when Baseball Commissioner Commissioner Com missioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis Lan Lan- dis casting a deciding vote rejected reject ed d proposals which would have placed limitations on his activities against store chain-store baseball and vast farming systems Landis Land Is has long warred on farming systems one me of his pet hates and one of the Yankees' Yankees bulwarks of strength Solid Foundation The value of 01 the ruling prohibiting prohibit ing league intra-league buying by the champions is debatable On the face of 01 it the action handicaps the winners to a damaging extent It seems discriminatory aimed at weakening a team which has been built up carefully through experience ence and great cost Then too the action seems unjust unjust un un- just In that it tends lends to bring the champions down to the level of 01 the average team Instead of raising the average a team leam to a higher bleher plane plaue However the proponents of the ruling can speak with logic and in the eyes of many complete fair ness They grant that the legislation legislation legisla tion will for a while penalize the Yanks as it will penalize all future future fu lu- ture champions They perhaps would use the word restrain They feel feci the penalty penally would be comparatively lively short lived in that no team can retain the worlds world's championship endlessly And they argue rightfully that no attempt Is being made to drag the championship team down to a lower low er level le Instead the average team Is being built up to a higher plane plaue through the tine acquisition of 01 desirable playing paying talent As long as the champs hamps are prohibited from Irom buying the best league Intra league players the lesser teams will benefit Loop Intra Trading As long as the commissioner doesn't interfere to any great grat extent extent ex tent with the Yankees' Yankees farm holdings hold ings lags the champs will continue to get along with little difficulty They have done very little trading within their own loop Their man for man for man trades have been very rare They did acquire Monte Pearson from the Indians but in return they gave up Johnny Allen When they traded Ben Den Chapman for Jake Powell they disposed of a better reputation than they received Not all American league learue c clubs rejoiced reJoiced rejoiced re re- over the ban on New York trading Boston and Detroit voted against the curb and at least leut two or lr three others were not highly enthusiastic en tr about the whole thing They hey were evidently of the opinion that some lome day they might catch the champs In a generous mood and make an advantageous deal And it does leave one wondering what would happen if if for instance Red Ruffing fluffing and Lefty Gomez were injured seriously in spring practice and the Yanks had to find pitching replacements in the minors minora or pick pickup pickup pickup up waived hurlers Sport Shorts Pr THE LIE Yankee farm system cleared In player sales last year Wisconsin's Wisconsin football team though it won only one game this season drew enough gate receipts to cover the university's entire athletic athletic ath ath- letic budget with something left over Wrestler Jim Jimr r Londos tondos denies emphatically emphatically em em- that hell quit the game to enter en ter the movies Says he plans to retire In hi iny y about three years I Each team playing jn In the Rose Bose Bowl Dowl receives one one- third of gate receipts re re- The other a third goes to the association as as- Jim Londos sponsoring the game Excellent Ex practice is given tennis players play ers era by a new electric robot which throws balls in rapid order varying delivery speed twist and height Baseballs are stitched by hand and a good sewer can turnout turn turnout turnout out 40 in an on hour eight-hour day Sam Snead claims his backhand swing is helped by a jointed double left thumb caused by a football injury in jury Bob Dob Feller of Cleveland will get 1000 per win if It he wins 20 games next year Members of the Green Day Bay Packers professional professional football team once received 1650 1050 each as their pro rata share of ot I seasons season's profits In 21 years of coaching Wallace Wade has lost only I Ione one game by a point one-point margin Pro Football Gains FOR OR the tenth consecutive year 1 the 10 teams of the National Football Football Foot Foot- ball league have shown a healthy Increase in attendance figures The professional teams played before before before be be- fore a total of 01 spectators during durin the 1939 season leason an au increase of over 1938 Only one team fell below last years year's attendance mark Detroit suffered sol suf a 7 per cent drop even though its gate rate receipts equalled those of 01 last fall lall Cleveland where persons saw five home games rames showed the largest Increase lucrease almost a 50 SO per cent boost Despite a very poor season the Chicago Cardinals saw a several several- thousand-dollar thousand increase in gate re reo re- re This despite the fact that attendance figures were several hundred hun bun dred below those of 1938 Green GreenBay GreenBay GreenDay Bay Day marking one of its greatest seasons had only a S 5 per cent in increase increase In in- crease In hi home attendance How ever the team did not play in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York or Washington Cleveland Pittsburgh and Philadelphia more than held their own New York led the league playing to in six home bome games Detroit De Be troit led the western division attracting attracting at at- fans The Chicago Bears Dears were second with fewer fewer few few- er in attendance |