South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-23
IN E W YORK CLUBS
MAY PROVE TO BE
GAMES RUINATION
Large Parks and Huge Re.
ceipts Enable Them to Win
In Race for Players.

Baseball being an uncompromis-
ing game to its chattels. a general
and wise refrain of the players is:
Get it while the getting is good"
Nowhere is the getting as good as
in New York If a player has real
ability. SO 1t has been in the recent
past. anyway In the future, New
York Will be the town OF great de-
sire of virtually all players.
Next spring the Yankee stadium,
seating $1,000. will be completed
and the Yankees will have their
days. While the biggest park in
the game is being erected, the Polo
grounds, home OF the Giants, will
be enlarged to 5000, approximate
ly $4,000 more than crushed capac-
ity heretofore, or one-third as large
again. Thus. the Giants will be
second largest.
Parks stand For Much.
Now, imagination need not be un-
bridled much to visualize what these
two parks stand for They stand
for money-making in baseball on
an unprecedented scale. A war for
patronage will begin in the spring.
The two clubs will seek to Guido
each other I'm playing excellence
that Is what the owners will try to
achieve at least--and thus engage
the interest OF the public to reap
the greater profit.
Everybody likes a winner. 1t be-
hooves both clubs. obviously. to be
winners or nearly so as possible.
Therefore they will buy and buy
and buy if the need arises. either
| from other league clubs or from the
minors. In view OF the moneymak-
! ing possibilities. the clubs will be
able to pay generously for stars,
and will angle for them. The New
/ York clubs VIII be richer than the
other clubs, IL they draw as expect
| ed. and can ouubld for minor league
stars or for stars on other teams
whose owners might be tempted tC
sell.
MAY Have Beaten Browns.
/ Because Of ''the Dugan deal,
whereby the Yankees owners
made" their team last summer. and
/ the "McQuillan deal" by which the
| Giants bolstered a slipping. pitchins
corps, both New York. teams were
aided greatly in winning the re-
! spective pennants. In an effort to
/ prevent these deals or buys" as
! they really are. in the heat Of pen
nant fights "a rule was passed the
other day in joint meeting Of the
| major leagues preventing sales or
| trades. excepting by waiver, after
| June Is. If this had been in force
! last year. it is not only conceivable
! but likely that the Browns would
have won the American League
pennant, and that possibly the Gi'
ants would not have won in the Ma
tional League.
However. two months from the
start Of the season to June . may
| reveal weakness which the hand
| ing around OF money would elimi-
nate. Certain clubs have shown a
/ disposition TO cell stars to the ruin
/ of their own chances OF getting any
where and TO the fierce dissenting
/ clamor of fans. They may be temp
! ed to again during the interval. The
! time may be only a year or a few
years removed n which a most rad
! ical rule, eliminating buying or sell
ing in the playing season, will come
| into being.
Might Become Too Rich.
Inasmuch as the New York clubs
stand to make the most money by
! far. they may become so rich az to
/ monopolize pennant f1ghts. Thi:
would at once be a Encouragement
to other clubs and cause ball play.
ers all they personally might TO at
tract attention and possibly be sold
or traded 10 New York. Just think
OF what a worlds series share mex
year, if the two New York clubs
play against each other. viii mean
1t would be double easily over o
series say. between the Browns and
the Cardinals
The big parks in New York may
/ engage the attention OF the big off,
Gals Of the games Of necessity be-
! fore long. OF course New York
| crowds Will help financially othei
clubs playing there. but the point
is that the clubs are apt 10 become
| too rich and too strong. II may
even come to pass that prices OF
tickets will have to be regulated e
prevent New York running away
with the game" This question hai
| been heard from other clubs IL tn