Show CE A THERE HERE is a certain change due in the setup of baseballs baseball's two major loops No sane person who knows sport can deny that Los Angeles and San Francisco are far better sporting I centers than most of ot the major league cities now occupying the Standing of the Clubs Los Angeles in many ways is well beyond New York and Chicago On Ona 1 a general average I it outdraws both at racing and football S' S to name two leadIng leading leads lead lead- s ing s sports p 0 r t s Ive I've seen at a aRose aRose aRose Rose Bowl game in nearby Pasadena and on the same S afternoon over 65 65 were at the Santa Anita raco race FG A track Given an any sort of competition Grantland Rice in football Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- I geles can turn out from to San Francisco isn't far faraway away Both Los Angeles and San Francisco are also sport-keen sport and sport-conscious sport to a high degree They are far beyond at least 10 Big League centers For that matter Baltimore is also a much better big big- league spot than many teams now listed When you look over attendance records at Browns park In St. St Louis ranging rangin from to 1100 you get the thc answer ans The shift has to come at an early date a a. fact which a number of sleepy or half-awake half big league magnates will have to swallow no matter how little they like the medi medi- cine There has been a big change in major league baseball which can have some interesting develop develop- ments meats A few years ago only the winner in a big city could pass the theone theone theone one million attendance mark in one year You had to have a winner or at least a good ball club to make any money Today cellar champions champions champions cham cham- or cellar challengers can pass the one million roundup Owners no longer need good ball clubs to have I big years This easily can lead to a abig abig abig big letdown in the way of any financial financial finan cial incentive S t t Sectional Strength Football began in the East where for more than 30 years Yale Harvard Princeton and Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania had most of the AIl All Amerl Ameri Americans cans and the strongest teams The first strong outside challenge came from Yosts Yost's fast and powerful Wolverines around 1901 But even then the East was well in the lead when you look back to the days of Tom Shevlin Gordon Brown and big Jim Hogan of ot Yale DeWitt of Princeton Graydon of ot Harvard and many others who wore I I I the Orange and Black or the Red and Blue From 1901 through gli 1904 Michigan was the national leader Twenty years ago the tide turned westward as Stanford Southern California and California came along with such able coaches as Pop Warner Howard Jones and Andy Smith These were great days dayson on the Pacific slope where such teams as Ohio State Pittsburgh Army and others were badly manhandled manhandled man man- handled by western speed and power In the last few years there has been another shift shUt The two strongest strong strong- est football sections in the country today are the Midwest and the South The argument between these two sections in the last f few w years has developed more smoke than a burning oil well with a considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able amount of flame attached The leader In the Midwestern uprising uprising uprising up up- rising was Notre Dame with Knute KnuteI Rockne leading the charge But Notre Dame has since sincee been Joined by by Michigan Ohio State Illinois In Indiana lana Minnesota Wisconsin and others who have shown solid strength There Is one debate that is full of ringing tones tones and and vocal cataclysms How would the 10 best teams from th the South finish against the Big Nine plus Notre Dame For reasons of their own own these two wo rival football sectors leave out the East the Far West and the Southwest in the matter of ot general team strength South Caught Up Vp Fast After a slow start the South first derived its upward move from such coaches as Dan McGugin Wallace Wade Bernie Bierman Frank Thomas Jack Heisman Helsman and Bill Alexander Later Bob Neyland came along to add new coaching strength also Carl Snavely and a afew afew afew few others Once under way the South moved in a hurry to take Its place around the front row long after the Midwest Mid west had moved up What chance would the 10 best teams from Dixie have against the Big Nine and Notre Dame Notre Dame would give the Midwest a arousing arousing rousing breakaway from the bar bar- rier But B t the South has a stout argument argument argument ment to offer Her 10 selections would come from Georgia North Carolina Alabama Duke Kentucky Tulane Vanderbilt Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- Auburn Mississippi and Mississippi State North Carolina St State te Virginia and one or two others 1 |