The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-09
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(Reg. U. s. Pat. Off.) BY HARRY FERGUSON fI1nifAd Press SnNrta Editorl

New York, July 9-(UP)--Suffer- ing from severe and sudden ate tack of common sense, the Amer lean league magnates have repealed the rule which says that the pen- nant- winning team cannot make Q trade with any other club in the circuit.
 It is a rare occasion when an epi- dernic of this ailment breaks out among the magnates. Occasionally one of them will be stricken with common sensitis, but he usually is rushed of to the isolation ward so the rest of them won't catch 1t. The last epidemic occurred when they decided to play night baseball be- cause some genius convinced them that millions of people who have to work in the day time might want to see ball game.
 Previous to that, the worst out- break occurred when the magnateS cause common sensities in body and agreed to put numbers on the shirts of players SO spectators could identify them. The magnateS have remarkable resistance to common sensitis where the welfare of the customer is concerned, and they fought long, sturdy battle against numbering the players.
 The no-trade rule was passed about two years ago and was de- signed to ham-string, hand-cuf and otherwise impede the New York Yankees, who were winning pen- nants regularly. It promptly boom- eranged against the Detroit Tigers who won the pennant last year and could make a few trades to great advantage right now. The Tigers lost Hank Greenberg in the draft and then were beset by injuries which almost wrecked the club.
 By this time the attack of com- mon sensitis probably has passed and the magnateS are back in their normal condition, which I shall not describe because the family lawyer tipped me of to the existence of a neW-fangled set of statutes called the laws of libel. But in the hope that there is some lingering vestige of the ailment, I would like to make motion that they consider the matter of putting hit and error signs up in all ball parks where the customers can see them.
 It is a revolutionary theory to say that the man who pays his money at the turnstile is entitled to know whether the official scorer rules hit or error on close one. The cueScmers at Yankee stadium, Tor instsnce, have been in the dark several times on whether Joe Di- Maggio's streak was broken because they didn't have any Idea how the scorer had ruled.
 The argument Aeainst recording hits and errors is that 1t might make the ball players nervous If they saw their good deeds and niisdeeds put up Tor all the world to see.
 You know how delicate baseball players are. Any little thing upsets them and lt would be cruelty Of the worst order to expose them t0 miner irrltations. They lead such Q ter- Tlbly hard life already that lt would Dc unfair to burden them with ads ditlenal worries. Why, they have to work two whole hours every day ln the summer stn and iE's high time the national labor relations board acted on this eFuesoEne form of peonase,
 They have to leave their comfort. able homes every February ana SO all tHe way e Florida and Cailf0rs me f0F spring training and fun the rlek ei ennbuFn. They have no choice as l0 where they i've during