Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-09-11
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By DON DElElcHBuR

WINGDALE, N. Y. - The boys in the back room are
quietly laying odds that 1914 1916 will find
thing definite done about this BUSINESS of admitting coored
players into the big leagues They feel that while the majors
haven't lost anything in attendance this season. despite the
war, the player shortage will create demand for new
of material and thus the coored athlete cannot be
overlooked so bithely as in the past
Baseball is due to play increasingly important role
in wartime recreation Already the major leagues pre-
pairing to two asar clubs to North Africa at the
quest Gen. Eisenhower to entertain troops The teams
expected to stay the other side for at east 80 days.
Negro baseball cannot be overlooked although it
should the efforts of coored club
cerned The selfish attitude expressed by the operators
colored clubs coming out at crucial time las in 1922
and stating for public information that they not in
erested in sympathetic with the program to put
of their players in major league uniforms shows the short
sgednes with which the coored variety of the sport has
to contend
A concerted demand the part of colored owners a.
long with that of the trade uninos the coored press the
fans and others for admission of coored players to the big
leagues might have forced the issue last when
fens made the part of the big leagues to find out
just how much strength behind the demand for lower
ing the color bars in their own bawicks The revelation
satisfied them to certain extent and they open to
suggestions for change in policy.
But the Negro cubowners made themselves conspicu
by their absence from what should have been united
front and the 1912 campaign fled by the Naysde Few if
any of the of the coored league clubs who opposed
entry of their players into organized white baseball the
faulty premise that they giving away players they had
spent their money to Develop had anything to point to
that would substitute for such real advancement for their
players
They couldn't match the salaries the big leagues would
pay they couldn't begin to match the training facilities and
travel Accommodations the majors make available for their
players they can't match the organization of the low
lest minor league club
The Negro National League said by those the in
side not to be Incorporated and to have operated in such
slpshod since it organized There is fund
for maintenance of the league There central
office commissioner only six clubs with loose agree
ment to play each other when they get a chance
So disrupted and dsorganized is the league that club
refuse to to certain cities to carry out
regular adopted schedules Such is the situation that
finds the Homestead Grays sticking to Washington and
Pittsburgh the Newark Eagles combining most of their
pearances Newark both of which clubs have had little
to do in the way of appearing in New York
Despite this situation in Negro baseball it is felt that
the majors will make up their minds this winter the col
ored question and for all and that in the spring they'll
start shopping around for Negro talent for players the
my hasn't grabbed off for older players if all the
gone From last seasons happenings such step
by the major leagues will encounter loud and profane
ston from the coored club in the past But little
attention will be paid such squaws by players who
change 5000 month job for in which he'll get double
that sum and maybe