Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-21
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NOT RELlSHED
Yanks And Giants Trades
This Year Hurt Leagues
Is Claim
BY 1. e. sANBORN.

Doing things by halves never was
anything but a makeshift and never
will be. Major league magnates are
learning that lesson from the noise
raised over the two eleventh hour
player deals whereby the. two New
York clubs attempted to assure them
selves another worlds series between
themselves this fall.
Instead of profiting by the protests
OF the baseball public against the auc-
ton of the Giant las year,
when they found their team slipping
and bought strength enough from the
of coping, the promoters of the dia-
mond pastime merely showed the date
for such deals ahead n month.
September ! used to be the limit
for taking or additional strength in
sible of course for the hopeless tall
ender to reimburse itself by selling
some. of its players to help out a moro
successful and wealthy rival. But that
sort of thing does not appeal to the
real sports1nen, of whom there are
many still interested in baseball.
Public Against Buying Pennants
The club owners thought they could
satisfy the public by passing resolu-
tions and issuing propaganda against
purchasing pennants, and in proof Of
their determination to prevent such
things in future they voted to make
August 1 the date after which no
purchases Of players could be made
between major league clubs, except
by the waiver route.
That makeshift resulted in a worse
blow to the game this Instead
of n such deal, there were two.
While the fans were still smarting un-
der the misdeal by which the Yankees
bolstered up their chances to beat out
the hustling Browns, the Giants pulled
a replica Of their 1921 stunt by roping
in another star from q tail-end club,
waiting until just before the limit for
such transactions expired. b
Now the magnates are talking Of
changing the date for drawing new
cards from the same deck to July 1
instead of Aug. i. That won help
things much. The races are practic-
ally half over on July 4. and by that
time the teams in both majors are
pretty we'll divided into first and Sec
ond division outfits. It still will be
possible for club owners to estrange
the sport lovers in the same old way
by strengthening the leading clubs at
the expense Of the tal-enders.
june l Might Help Some
Advancing the date tosJuns, i might
makeshift and would not keep the
club owners, whose horizon is bound
ed by their ball PARKS from making
trades which the fans could question.
Baseball is the only sport in which
the contestants In a race are permit
ted to renew their strength with the
aid of Competitors. Two horses from
the same stable might do a little
pacemaking to aid one or the other
in race, but the turf fans would not
look upon them as real competitors
In a motor race the leading auto
mobile may wear out a tire, but the
driver isn't allowed to buy even an
inner tube from q rival. He has to
he can obtain them quickly.
II the baseball promoters had the
best interests Of sport always at heart
they would pass q rule to prohibit q
sale or exchange OF players at any
time during the championship season
from q second division to a first diyi-
sion club. That would make it i'm.
J possible for the stronENtoaproft By
the financial needs Of the weak and
Sill would not prevent trades for play
err that would be beneficial to- thu
game. 4
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