Show speaking of sports we fa farm r m system solution tion to t 0 yank menace by georgei GEORGE A BARCLAY ITH anti antimonopoly monopoly and trust WITH busting movements abroad in the land baseball men generally would welcome with three rousing cheers any formula that would effectively break up the pennant monopoly of the new york yankees winners of the american league pennant and the worlds series in 1936 and 1937 joe mccarthys McCar thys yankees look like such surefire sure fire repeaters again this year in both fields that there seems to be little chance of heading them off but in the future it is obvious that something must be done to improve other clubs in the american and national leagues particularly the last three teams in each circuit it if national interest in t the national sport is to be maintained the tai lenders are so hopelessly out of the pennant race from the start that the most ardent followers lose interest two major suggestions have already been brought forward one is a sort of share the wealth plan which proposes that the yankee machine be broken up and the talent distributed to less fortunate clubs baseball men agree that this is a bad suggestion the other way suggested to break that pennant monopoly is to build up the weaker clubs in both the american and national leagues to meet it this can be done and the way to to it is by the extension of the farm system yanks get talent the yankees supported by colonel hupperts Rup wealth have constructed ted a splendid farm system with newark in the international league and kansas city in the R joe mccarthy american association as their principal training grounds for talent these two powerful minor league clubs will continue to produce fine baseball ability every year for the yankees the yanks are one of several teams that have discovered that the proper method of supplying a winning major league club with capable talent is to own some minor league teams ruppert first tried paying high prices tor for advertised stars when he took over the yanks this proved too costly the farm method has proved far better it costs less and supplies classier material the st louis cardinals under tinder branch rickey made a similar discovery a few years back and they now have the most extensive chain farm arm system in baseball the hag thing fot for the other clubs buhs uhs to do is to build farm systems that are as good as the yankees or the cardinals have and the giants cubs and indians are developing such a measure would eventually equalize the playing strength of the various teams and bring into a more even balance the strength of the american and the pow now admittedly weaker national league of course there is the alternative of a bigger scouting system for every team but it if the top clubs club continue to increase their farm activities ai tivi ties the field for scouting will be so limited that it will be diar difficult to find adequate talent except on teams owned by other clubs scouts scout s are said to be running into that situation already basela tans fans everywhere love a winner they are content as long as their team is in the fight but they are justly dissatisfied with teams that have no chances whatever I 1 unless the problem of strengthening the lenders tai is solved shortly it is not inconceivable that major leagues be cut to six clubs each or some of the franchises in moved ve d moving the franchises might not remedy the situation more than temporarily the solution is for all major league clubs to be so financed that they can establish adequate farm systems of their awn wn numerology de JACK KEARNS may be coming up with another heavyweight champion in jimmy adamick of detroit it if association means anything jimmy crashed into the big time recently when he won a decision over harry thomas at madison square garden in new york adamick has Q jimmy adamick a double M ring name the same as jack dempsey he has been hailed the midland macer dempsey you may recall was known as the manassa mauler both have had kearns as manager and both have seven letters in their last name carrying this business a little further you will find that the first names of ten of the fifteen listed heavyweight champions of history began with J and three of them were called james the current heavyweight title holder joe louis also figures in the adamick picture jimmy got his start in the same frame lifting department part ment of a detroit automobile factory as joe louis so now all jimmy has to do is go out and win the championship doing that however promises to be considerable of a job particularly in view of louis recent showing when he knocked out husky nathan mann of new haven conn in less than eight minutes the brown bomber looked impressive in his second defense of the title he won last june from jim braddock hitless wonders N OTES gleaned from official na dional league batting averages bees truly were the hitless wonders of 1937 they had a team average of made the fewest number of runs of hits of total bases and wound up the campaign in fifth place only a stones throw from the first division the answer lay in a defense that was stouter than any other in the league it was a bad year for cincinnatus Cincin natis betting baseball players manager charley dressen wagered among other things eight hats to one of jimmy wilsons Wil sons that the reds would beat out the phils in the standings and chick hafey who had a sporting wager with wally berger over relative batting marks found his average more than 20 points under that of the giants outfielder with the retirement of frank frisch from active baseball the national league lost the outstanding turn around hitter in its history there were six regular turn around hitters last season herschel martin lonny frey jimmy brown ripper collins augie galan and del young football barter THE HE recent appointment of bald teagle eagle f faced aced tad wieman as head coach of the princeton university football team brought to consummation a series of interesting swaps between princeton and the university of michigan first michigan signed fritz crisler princeton coach ns as head football mentor and assistant athletic dif 7 71 rector at ann arbor then princeton selected wieman a michigan alumnus who had assisted crisler as its football coach crisler then appointed campbell dickson anti and earl martineau prince H AJ ton end and back tad wieman field coaches as his assistants at michigan and wieman was facet faced with the task of f illing filling two holes in his coaching staff wieman was graduated from michigan in 1921 he played tackle and fullback under fielding yost he assisted yost for six years then became head coach at michigan in 1927 after the 1928 season he confined his activities to assistant athletic director ile he went to minnesota in 1930 to assist crisler followed him to princeton Q western newspaper union |