Evening star., 1933-01-14

DARDON my agitation-but
- I think I hear the drums
| of war beginning to roll
in base ball.
And this time it is not among
the pappies of the peaceful
paStime at one Of their lodge
meetings, but a battle in which
the hired men of the slumbering
sport will pit their might against
the tall hats of the game in an
effort to gain more coin of the
realm for their 1888 efforts on the
ball fields.
A new weapon apparently is being
welded by the players. The boys are
selling their teams short.
And the trade is gasping at their
audacity. While the moguls must be
fleeing around in CONSERVATION.
EoR instance, George Livingstone
l. Earnshaw, right-hand hurting ace
for Connie Mack's second-place
Athletics, and Aloysious P. Simmons,
the new head heavy artilleryman for
the White Sox, are quoted as saying
that the American League race Is al
ready in, and that the Yanks will take
1t in a walk.
Mr.. Earnshaw is quoted as saying
that the flag will be won by the YAM
adding that the YankS will be rs games
in, Iov ho last Of T1IlV
Gentlemen, if there is not powder IN
those remarks then I have never
smelled it before. No matter how far
back I can toddle my memory cannot
recall having heard, or read of. two
outstanding players in base ball getting
I'D on their launches months before
the season opened to say that their
teams did not have a chance. They
have made remarks in private, I'll
agree, ard were right. And maybe
these public remarks of Earnshaw and
Simmons are correct, but, as much as
I admire frankness, I'm afraid the boys
have looked into the wrong end of the
gun.
IF all of the American League is as
L agitated as Uncle Clark Griffith,
the gray ranger from the cactus
country, then I'm here to tell you that
there is a lot of sunbonnet goSsiping
going on over the various fences in the
younger loop
"I understand the Yanks are In and
the American League race for 1888 Is to
be dropped in favor Of pinochle,"" tell
Uncle over the phone by way OF warm
ing up.
that?" shrieks Uncle, beyond doubt
having given the subject plenty of
thought.
"If they were players OF mine, who
were publicly saying that my team did
not have a chance to win the flag,
would chase them off the reservation
with a base ball bat," he said, answer
ing his own question.
Uncle went into a series of explosions
to indicate that the remarks made by
EarnshaW and Simmons touched sore
spot in the makeup Of club owner
who expects his players to boost his
club, and not ridicule it.
lust whether the league or Judge
Lands will spank the pair of gab-
bers for their remarks which could
be construed as being detrimental to
the best interests of base ball, Is ques-
JlOIl, DuI ~ ID llOO a duCoI4O41 buV tAAos
ball players with probable axes to grind
will be muzzled by the leagues for max
ing remarks unfavorable to their clubs,
in the future. You can bet on that.
When the full force Of the reaction
to Simmons and EarnshaW's speeches
to the press reach Chicago, there Is
little doubt that the high commissioner
will get up on his horse, and go riding
And there Is every reason to believe
that the Sox and the Athletics man.
agements will register complaints with
their bad boys, just as Billy Evans had
to do with Wes Ferrel, his pitcher, when
the latter announced in the middle Of
a pennant fight that Joe Mccarthy was
the best manager In the world to make
Roger Peckingpaughis face red.
WHILE Simmons and Earnshaw's
w remarks may be true, business
conditions in base ball somehow
|. do not warrant star players making