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Show I SPORT LIGHT Comparison: Football and Basel- 1 Bv GRANTLAND RICE As progress moves1 along the road there is always a new order of things. You can fight this order just so long. For example professional football met this challenge and made its change. To the old- mendous strength. I aso . to believe that college foot appeal to just as many the recruited element is or reduced. It will never b duced as long as a single is found breathing. If correct changes art college football will no lon, I Los Sles and t fX-wA , San Francisco were 9 22p ' j added. The addition ICiVg f these teams add- 7 F ed immeasurably I' 2 , to the growth and s development of the I Vi v i game and will con- 1 mt I tinue to do so. LmniMMfe'ft- Recently Dallas largely a battle of scotlin, , cruiting, athletic scholar and money against at leas form of sanity. I received n ter from Don Faurot, lhe t coach at Missouri. Dot 4. that in the recent awards 1 distribution of deserved Prj at Missouri practically n recipient came from thai st I have seen Missouri teams ; past in which 33 men out of S3 i from Missouri. I believe it has more home-grown footbi; ers than any other big unite Missouri makes no effort to scouts all over the map, y 2,000 miles away in order to I passing star, a big tackier hard running back. That's the way it should h. Bryant has announced a simila icy for Kentucky. Football pi; given their earlier educations some public high school, tot bolt for the rich bait handed i some university or college far This is unfair to the state Hal the athlete his chance to get ed. The Browns Test The Browns tinder Veecl Hornsby are dead sure to sho provement. One question is much improvement will they at the gate? Unless the B move up above the 750,000 0: 000 attendance mark, the fra may be shifted. Baseball exi have reached the point whe 300,000 or 500,000 all-season can pay even part of the wa; St. Louis is a hot ball toi pecially where the Cardina! involved. But this season the nal pennant outlook over and Dodgers is not too keen, Cardinal pitching reaches til it might find in the distance, I should think any conn .. j i was added to the Grantland Rice ., pro grid map. This latest move, will place the Far West well above the East, including includ-ing New York's Giants, Philadelphia's Philadel-phia's Eagles or Pittsburgh's Steelers in the matter of attendance. Big league baseball has made no such changes. It has defied progress. Today Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Baltimore, Balti-more, Buffalo and Houston have larger attendance figures to draw on than some major league cities but they cannot break Into the iron-bound monopoly mon-opoly of the big league game. Baseball has stuck with the 11 cities and 16 franchises it picked up fifty years ago and has made no move since. In spite of the vast changes in population and interest shown, the old game has plodded along, clinging cling-ing desperately to the past with any views of the future completely hidden. hid-den. It may be the original setup left no way to handle this situation. There is a big chance a change will come some day in a general revolt of potential major league cities now left out that will tear many of the teams in the two older leagues into shreds. It may not happen. But it could. Football hasn't been too smart in many directions, but it has been smarter than baseball. And baseball base-ball had much the earlier start. The point is that a big-league franchise means much to a city really deserving de-serving it. One must admit that three big leagues would be upsetting when it came to any world series. It is fairly certain however that one big league for a city is about all the traffic will bear outside of New York and possibly Chicago. They have millions in the way of population to give them a two league chance. About College Football Pro football is building every year. Additions from the Far West and the Southwest have added tre- wouia taite a aeep mieresiuu ball club building up. But Browns' attendance increase! come off, there'll be more th; outside city more than will get the assignment. Hornsby has another fine shortstop Marty Marion. If Marion is able to work SO at short he will be a big help, event he will be a big help Louis, with Stanky and Hornsl be one of the most interestin, of the new season. You'll se better baseball from the E |