The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1928-06-23
EAST CHUCKLES AS WEST FACES BASEBALL PROBLEMS
Godfrey And Rsko Both Confident Await Gong At New York
Baseball Will Be Baseball, But
Hardly In League Form, Fan Says
By AL Monroe

By AL Monroe
am In receipt Of letter from an
eastern fan deploring the fact that
your correspondent has seen fit to take
so many slams at the eastern body
while the association in this part of
the country noto half as good as the
eastern sister, moves about in a very
clumsy fashion.
The fan suggests in his rather cut
ting letter that the eastern league
while it was league was up and above
board in every respect, which accord
ing to our way of figuring things is
where We must take exceptions to the
idea that the fan appears to have fas-
tened in his mind. Somehow I recall
a time two years ago when the eastern
association was supposed to be league
when Mr.. Beckwith and otoher mana
gers of the league raised bitter pro-
tests over the treatment of some of
the clubs in the league in favor of the
clubs with stronger drawing parks.
AS I recall it the managers argued
that the Bacharach Giants which club
was declared pennant winner did not
win the flag at all but ran a poor
third to the Cuban stars and the Har-
risburg Giants.
So when the fans starts getting heat
ed up over the class of the eastern
league we have only to recall the
charges an dcounter charges by Mr.
BeckWith and Mr.. Jim Keenan, and
then settle back to enjoy a hearty laugh
at the nerve of the letter writing fan.
Attacks Rube Foster
The letter also shows an attempt to
belittle the great RUDE Foster when
the latter headed western baseball. In
speaking of Foster he says: Even your
great RUDE Foster was afraid to match
wits and figures with the eastern
league and if memory serves was
whipped to a fragile when the two
associations met in point sessions
But here again we must disagree with
the writer who evidently does not or
did not know RUDE Foster. II RUDE
ever feared any one we have no record
of same. Unless of course you are
speaking of the old Kansas City Mon
arhs and that fear ended with the act
ual battle the teams had on the ball
field.
Or perhaps I am wrong Somehow
I seem to recall an attempt on the part
aof the eastern league to have Rube
bring his team west and the answer
If memory serves was in the form 81
.s,s ~ is.!ss- -
would be out-generaled in any respect
whatsoever but that the patrons would
not come into the park or parks in
sufficient numbers to guarantee Tle
players, the bat boy and Rube Fos-
ter's getting back home.
So if the fan has that episode in
mind we doff our hats TO him but
otherwise may we repeat here. The
gentleman did not know our Rubian
Foster.
Two of a Kind
Just now however the leagues, east
and west are more or less two of
kind except for the fact that some of
the western cities are drawing enough
customers to warrent its continuance.
They have devised an economy scheme
that should save something if not the
league, by refusing to purchase stamps
to supply the papers with news Of their
games. If this saving of two cents
a week can keep the league going more
than two cents to give the patrons
something in the way of inducement
to keeping the turnstiles clicking.
Frankly I am not so sure that the
eastern association is still a league
and I regret exceedingly that the good
letter writer did not advise me DON
that score. Moot that it matters par
ticularly except of course that I am
interested in knowing the trend ofo the
leagues off again, on again policy
merely for the sake of curiosity. /
a moi the opinion however that it is
of again since the bods shows a pref
erence to the latter. l make this
statement in spite of the report that
some ten or more clubs stood anxious
ly awaiting the chance to take the
places of the disgruntled clubs that
withdrew from the association several
weeks ago
But at that we should show less in
terest perhaps in as much as we have
quite a problem right here in our own
league and problem in our own Amer
lean Giants. Yes, baseball will be
baseball but not as the leagues either
east or west dish it up. That is the
one exception and a ludicous one at
that.