Show alce T THERE HERE is a certain change due i in the ithe setup of baseballs baseli alls two major loops no sane person who knows sport can deny that los angeles and san francisco are far better sporting centers than most iahost ot of the major league cities now occupying the standing of 0 the clubs los angeles in many ways ways Is wen well belond new york and chicago go on a general average it outdraws out draws both at racing and football to name two leading I 1 sports ports ive seen 03 0 00 at a rose eose bowl bow 1 game gam e in nearby pasadena end and on the same afternoon over were at the san santa t a anita race track given any sott sort ot of competition Grantlan dRice in football lo 10 los angeles can turn out from to san francisco far away both los angeles and san francisco are also sport keen and sport conscious to a high degree they are far beyond at least 10 big league centers for that matter baltimore is also a much better big league spot than many teams now listed when you look over attendance records at browns park in st louis ranging from to 1100 you get the answer the shift has to come at an early date a fact which a number of sleepy or hau half awake big league magnates will have to sv swallow allow no ma matter ater how little they like the cine there has been a big change in major league baseball which can have some interesting developments m ent A few years ago only the winner in a big city could pass the one million attendance mark in one year you had bad to have a winner or at t least a good hall ball club to make a any ny money today cellar champions or cellar challengers can pass the one million roundup owners no longer need good b ball all clubs to have hav 0 big years this easily can lead to a a big letdown in the way of any elnan financial incentive sectional strength football began in the east w where here for more than 30 years yale harvard princeton and pennsylvania sylvania had most of the AU all amerl ameri cans and the strongest teams the first strong outside challenge came from hurry up yosts costs fast and powerful wolverines rines around 1901 but even then the east was well in the lead when you look back to the days of tom ShevI In gordon gordo n brown and big jim hogan of yale dewitt of princeton graydon of harvard and many others who wore the orange and black or the red and blue from 1901 through 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 on the pacific slope where such teams as ohio state ritts pittsburgh burgh army and others were badly man handled bandied by western speed and power in the last few years there has been another shift the two strongest football sections in the country today are the midwest and the south the argument between these two sections in the last lew few years has developed more smoke than a burning oil well with a considerable amount ol of flame attached the leader la in the midwestern uprising was dame with knute rockne leading the charge but notre dame has since been joined by michigan ohio state illinois indiana minnesota wisconsin and of others hers who have shown solid strength there is one debate that Is full of ringing tones and vocal cataclysms how would the 10 best teams from the south finish against the big nine plus notre dame for reasons of their own these two rival football sectors leave out the east the far west and the southwest in the matter of general team ie am strength south caught up past fast after a slow start the south first derived its upward move from such coaches as dan mcgugin wallace wade ernie bernie bierman frank thomas jack heisman and bill alexander later bob neyland came along to add new coaching strength also carl snavely and a few others once under way the south moved in a hurry to 1 take its place around the front row long after the midwest M est had moved up what chance would uie the 10 best teams from dixie have against the big nine and notre moire dame no notre tre r e dame would give five the midwest a rousing breakaway from we be barrier but the south has a stout argument to offer her 10 selections would come from georgia north carolina L SU alabama duke kentucky tulane tennessee y auburn mississippi and mississippi sti state north carolina state virginia and one or two others |