The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-28
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Horsehide and Horses Don't Mix, But Rajah Could
 Have Bet on COCkroaches Had Browns Won

body who has anything to do Wltn thoroughbreds-horses or dogs.
 They'd best not make too close a check along this line, for If they booted out all who risked a few shekels on the bangtails and bow VOWS they'd lose about half of their entire personnel, including them selves. Still, I suppose there Is a vast difference between a manager, player, or umpire who spends an of day at track in place of stuffy movie, and an active baseball man who plays the ponies away from the racing strips.
 Yet 1t seems to me that the ques- ton between the Browns and Hornsby should have been purely administrative.
 If Barnes believed that Hornsby was spending too much time boring over form charts and foregathering with bookmakers and touts, as an employer he had a perfect right to let him go.
 Owners Told Baseball
 and Racing Don't Mix
 A clubhouse boy running down to the dugout with results doesn't make a baseball situation any healthier, and even a gent with a detachable mind such as Hornsby's might make strategic mistake just after being wigwagged that Raw Bones ran out in the fourth at Elm pire with 200 clans on his beak.
 A baseball or any other kind of a club reflects It's manager, and there was little sense In letting Hornsby teach young players how to die broke, which is where and how all hoss players wind up.
 Owners have been told that base ball and hosses don't mix. Racing and professional baseball may both be commercial enterprises conduct ed for a profit, but the late Charley Stoneham and John McGraw were forced to sever their winter con- nections with Oriental Park, Ha- Vana.
 More recently, when dog racing at Braves Field at night would have bailed out Judge Emil Fuchs at a time when he was flatter than any confirmed hoss player you can name offhand, he was instructed to lay OH and allowed to drown in red ink.
 Then, with the Braves who be- came the Bees tossed back into Charles Francis Adams lap, the chain store and hockey magnate was declraed unfit to be at their head because he also was president of the Eastern Racing Association, which operates Suffolk Downs. National Pastime, It Seems,
 Must Be Kept PiOus
 Adams was good enough to es- tablish the credit of new baseball corporation, but wasn't good enough to head 1t publicly.
 Personally. I can't see the slight est variance between racing mag nate hiring a front man such as old Bob Quinn or making his announce ments himself, but that seems to be the way Judge Landis and other diamond dukes want it.
 They don't appear to be so par ticular in the minors. Dr. Charles Henry Strub, who for years has owned a one-third interest in the San Francisco franchise, financed, built, and directs Santa Anita.
 But according to the major base ball pOWerS' way of thinking. such an above-board racing figure as Jo- seph E. Widener would not be ac- ceptable. They no doubt would ap- prove his fixing up one of their dilapidated orchards as he did Bel mont and Hialeah Park, but he'd have to engage someone to speak for him ofiicially.
 Professional baseball, 1t seems, simply must be kept pious.