Show ell cyz xyz 91 H HAPPY APPY CHANDLER the new baseball commissioner was a first class kentucky governor and a first class kentucky U S senator ile he has been a good allaround all around athlete in many sports including toot foot ball baseball and basketball he has been a sportsman at heart a clean honest shooter but he may not be as happy as he Is today or has been through he ha years when the present and the postwar problems of baseball fall fail across his neck for these problems a will be many and varied and tough they w will ill require not happy chandler only y sound judg g ant on co commissioner missioner chandlers chandless Chand lers part but also the ability to face more than a few club owners who are going to look largely to their side of the argument they have the money invested and always a big point in most human debates it any question of 0 crookedness that happy will have to face but now and then a matter of craft and cunning I 1 can tell nappy happy that practically every club owner and ball player had so much respect tor for judge landis that it amounted almost to fear they wanted no part ot of the flery fiery aggressive judge after the war there will be over of these ball players shedding their fighting uniforms for baseball clothes these men had contracts before they left varying in financial amounts up to hank greenbergh Green bergs top of around A majority of these may not be as good as they were after two or three years service in army and navy but those who return and many wont will expect to get what they received or were guaranteed before moving into war they wont expect to take any cut until they have had at least a year to prove their places in the game it may be that every club owner will fall fail into line and pay old salaries it may be that many wont but the new commissioner must support the ball player to the limit not the club owner cardinal stars the cardinals are the leading example sam breamdons Brea dons redbirds Hed birds had more good ball players than any two clubs you can mention including quality and quantity it if the he jap part of the war Is over within a year the cardinals will have more good ball players on hand than any two teams can handle take the case of ct the cooper brothers they were asking 30 a year from the cardinals together before walker cooper was taken into service both know that the yankees giants or tigers would be extremely pleased to give them or a year 5 ear but st louis a good baseball town so far as attendance goes st louis is no new york detroit brooklyn chicago or one of several other major league cities the cooper brothers at a year combined would have been a tremendous baseball bargain almost anywhere else plenty ol of headaches when the war is entirely over happy chandler will have at least headaches which he must face regardless of what the baseball owners think or want here is the way I 1 rate baseballs importance 1 the players who ma make ke the game including of course the stars who help draw the crowds 2 the fans or crowds who make baseball ball possible as a major spectacle they pay the salaries and keep up the ball parks 3 the owners who can get in and out at almost any time and alio ho in the main get into baseball through the motives of profit and publicity the latter comes last it if they quit others are more than ready to take their places with few exceptions they hardly count in the building of the game they have contributed less than any other factor it is for this reason that happy chandler must look after the game first the players second the crowds third and refuse to let the owners shove him around happy chandler has been the best na aured man I 1 ever met in sport but to carry out this job he now faces he will need all the iron a single system ca can n carry un unless I 1 ess he does he has trad traded e d hap happiness P iness for a year it worth it the black sox series it was 28 26 years ago that the black sox scandal developed lately we talked that famous series over with earl greasy neale who played with the reds we had no idea at all this series was crooked greasy said how could co uld we there had been rumors about chick gandil joe jackson and buck weaver but gandias Gan dils dills hitting beat us in one game in tact fact the fellows rumored as the crooks starred all through the series |