Show speaking of sports check yanks league must hold players by ROBERT mcshane B BASEBALL experts officials and fans are almost unanimous in their belief that something must be done about the new york yankees before they eliminate all thought of competition in the american league the yanks won the 1938 1936 american league pennant by 19 games in n 1937 they won by 13 games and in 1938 by games the belief that their superiority was growing less pronounced a belief fostered by the diminishing margin of victory has proved untrue in the american league circuit it Is being said that the yanks will be from 8 to 12 games ahead by july 4 this means they might as well call off the rest of the race that joe mc ilc carthas Car thys aggregation is too good for the rest of the teams in baseball whether or not you subscribe to the theory and we do not joe that the yankees Al mccarthy cCarthy should be broken up for the good of baseball you will agree that some steps must be taken to revive an interest already flagging when lou gehrig ft benched himself they lost one of the greatest players of all time when joe dimaggio sprained an ankle they lost temporarily outstanding player but what happened with those two great performers out of the lineup the yanks with babe dahlgren on first base won 17 out of their next 20 games keep talent at home not long ago oscar vitt cleveland manager hinted that new york was ruining the american league by snatching all the pennants and by shipping talent fresh from the minors and good enough for other clubs in the same circuit to the national league to bear him out a hasty survey shows that in the last three years the yanks have sold bob seeds outfielder and johnny mccarthy first baseman to the giants outfielder jim gleeson to the cubs shortstop nolen richardson and catcher willard hershberger to the reds and shortstop eddie miller to the bees the last named is being hailed as one of the best infielders to enter the national league in years almost any club in the yanks circuit would have been glad to get him during the coming year officials of the league are certain to discuss methods of equalizing the strength of its teams they cannot of course take forcible measures and distribute the yanks star performers among the weaker clubs nor is it likely the team will be voluntarily broken up by player sales one course Is open to american league officials they can do all in their power to urge the yanks to keep all excess material in their home circuit this would be in direct contrast to the yanks present policy of selling players only to those teams which cant possibly threaten their supremacy cards build own lea league uc the st louis cardinals for instance dispose of their excess players to tc clubs within their own t league which maintains the strength of the entire organization I 1 though they were developed on cardinal farms there was no place for W biu lee and johnny rizzo on the st louis team but they were sold to clubs in AM the same league bill lee torn tom yawkey of boston is one man attempting to fight the yanks on their home grounds and even for that moneyed gentleman its going to be a tough uphill struggle to date the american league is not the drawing power it was in the past weather conditions have beer been blamed by edward G barrow pres ident of the yankees for unfilled grandstands however one writer pointed out that jersey city near new york and having the same weather conditions has drawn larg er crowds to minor league games game than the worlds champions have at traded in their mutilation of amer lean can league competition it cant be blamed on the er at least not altogether fa fan ns have grown tired of seeing the yan kees win with such little effort yesterday y Cst erday s heroes G the past part few K proximately awo 6 football weeks an p ers have been play turna d loose nation by upon the america s idoo and universities college s thi s is of six men an average eions of per squad at all ins titu more than school rating preparatory for the majority ot of tse thase h dai men en no interest that of nf an other than enthusiastic few will i spectator A remain as coaches talented ever those that do are exceptionally how coaching no longer has the appeal for graduates are colleges looking more and more each season to professional football and high schools for staff replacements most embryo coaches find their on only ay openings in high school jobs J abs and prep assignments lack tle the inducement they hoped to find contrary to general belief which holds that practically all goo good d football players join professional ranks the national football league will provide playing jobs for approximately graduates one out of every 24 college players meet major league football requirements the he great majority of these men will go to work in the more prosaic fields in their ranks are lawyers doctors engineers in fact any and all branches of business and the professions fes the national football league is to be congratulated that it does not hold out false hopes to men who might expect to capitalize on talents cultivated during three years of collegiate competition the graduates deserve a hand for being intelligent enough to realize that their futures depend on their capabilities in the business world and not on past gridiron performances great finisher HEN speaking of baseballs great relief pitchers the average fan thinks of johnny murphy with the new york yankees dick coffman of the giants jack russell fo formerly with the senators and now with the cubs sarge connally of the old white sox those and a few more A close checkup on the chicago chi cago white sox will reveal that one of W baseballs truly great relief twirlers twirl ers A v 0 0 f at AA 01 e v y A ay r i s CLINT BROWN is still saving ball games tor for louis comiskey he is clint brown one 01 of the most most spectacular rescue artists of the diamond brown left cleveland for chicago in the winter of 1936 he was largely y responsible for the third place tain finin ish of the white sox in 1936 and 1937 in the first season he figured in 38 games for t the he sox winning six los ing G two and work working ing 83 innings in 1937 he was in a total to tal of 53 games working innings winning seven and losing seven the trouble shooter was ca canceled out last season following an opera an fn tion don for tor a i chipped bone that 0 f course the only y reason in the sox fin dished in the second divi in a contributing fac sion but it was cannot be overlooked tor that the e 1 loss of monte stratton ace pitcher patch was a sev ere blow starting the S sox th this year their hopes Tatton to on Jt stratton whose ca were pinned P cut short hort when he lost a reer was accident B but t hunting leg in a plenty bad medi sox are suu still s v the reasons is and one of the big cuie e unparalleled d trouble clint clin t brown lies u back in form again ter shoo as ever and as dangerous ed that sometimes has brov brown as j valuable iss gibat finishing afy as a great s pitcher g pitcher |