Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-12-18
WAR FOR PATRONAGE
IN VIEW FOR GOTHAM
Yanks and Giants Mus! Go
Limit in Playing Excellence
With Huge Parks.
IRy Unlvcrsnl Scryicc.l

NEW YORK. Dec. l7.--I.ascball be-
ing an uncompronising game to it's
chattcls. II general and wise refrain
OF the players is: Get IL while the
getting is good" Nowhere is the
getting ms good as In New York II Il
player has real ability. So II has been
IN the recent past anyway. In the
future, New York Will be tho town OF
great desire of virtually all players.
Next spring. the Yankees stadium
seating $1,000. will be completed and
the Yankees will have their first home
since the old Iiill Top days While
the biggest park In the game Is be
ing erected. the Polo Grounds, home
OF the Giants. will Ice enlarged to
"",opo. approximately 1900 more
than crushed capacity heretofore. or
third ns large again: thus. the
Giants Will be second largest.
Now. Imagination need not he un-
bridlcd much TO visualize what these
two parks stand FOR. They stand for
money making In baseball on an UNI
prcccd"ntcd scale. 4 war for patron
age viii begin in the spring The
two clubs Will seek to Guido each
other In playing cNccllcncc-that is
what the owners Will try to achieve
at lcast--amd thus engage the In
tcrcst OF the public to reap the great
or profit.
Everybody likes winner. II be-
hoovcs both clubs. obviously. to lac
winners or nearly so as possible
Therefore. they will buy and buy and
bug. II the need arises. either from
other league clubs or from the mi
| nors In view OF tho moncy-makinE
possibilities. III. clubs viii be able
TO pay generously for stars and viii
angle for them. The New York clubs
will be richer than the other clubs.
If they draw az expected. and can
outbid for minor league stars. or for
stars on other teams whose owners
might h. tempted to sell.
| Because OF "th. Dugan deal where
| by the Yankee owners made" their
team last summer and the "Mcouil-
Ian" deal by which the Giants boil
stored "a slipping pitching corps. both
New York teams We're aided greatly
! IN winning the respective pcnnantS
/ In AN EFFORT 10 prevent these deals, ia
buys as they really are. In tn"
heat of pcunant fights. a rule was
passed tho other day In joint meeting
nt the major leagues. preventing
sales or trades. exchange >hy waiver.
after June IL. II this had been in
force last year, 1t is not only con
c.ivablc. but quite likely. that the
. ibTo"bS NbiIl ttNt "bll Ail' .Nll'''
team League pcnnant. and that pos
sibly III" Giants would not have won
In the National League.
However. two months from tho
start of tho season TO June Is may
reveal "A weakness which the handling
around Of money would eliminate.
Certain clubs have shown Il DISPOSE
tivn 10 sell stars. TO tho ruin OF their
own chances of getting anywhere
and to TIA" fierce dissenting clamor
Of the fans. They may bc tempted
again during THIS interval. The time
may bc only "a year or a few years
removed in which II most radical rule.
eliminating buying or selling in tn"
playing; season. VIII come into be
| ing.
Inasmuch as the New York clubs
stand to make the most money hy
far. they may become 80 rich az To
monopollzc pcnnant fights This
| would at once hc diScouraccm"nt
to other clubs. and cause ha!lplaycrs
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