The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-14
VOTE TO COST
 CLUB OWNERS
 MUCH MONEY
BY LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports EditOrl

New York, Dec. 14.-(UP)-A bat tie royal appeared to be in the mak- ing today between professional foot ball and major league baseball un- less the latter curtails its season.
 The fight started yesterday when the major leagues at their point winter meeting voted to bar foot ball from their parks until the home baseball season has been com- pleted. For the most part, 1t leaves the National Football league teams without stadiums for their early season games.
 The only solution appeared to be for shorter baseball season. something which probably will come up for discussion when the major leagues next meet in February. But while. there is considerable Senti- ment for shorter season outside of baseball circles, there is very little, if any, among the men who own and run the game,
 It may develop that baseball men cut their own incomes when they voted as they did. For pro football has become big business and the, money which it turned over in ren- tals for ball parks means conSid- erable to the baseball clubs in- volved.
 RetOrt
 A spokesman for the football league left no doubt on how 1t felt about baseballs move.
 Baseball can go fly its own kite," he said.
 He pointed outth att he league had co-operateo with baseball in every way, cutting down the number of its early season games and arrang- ing its schedule so there would be as little conflict as possible with baseball.
 The pro football people will dis GUS ways and means of overcoming the baseball park ban at their an- nual meeting here Monday. Two avenues appeared open to them: To find Stadiums in other cities in which to play their early season games or to build parks of their own.
 The latter solution, of course, is out of the question until after the war is over for the material is not available. But there are enough sta diums to go around, even though they would involve additional ex- penSe. But pro football can af- ford the money.
 There are municipal SctadiumS ln Cleveland and Philadelphia, Soldiers Field at Chicago and Buffalo has a civic stadium that may be available. It may be necessary for pro football to turn to these parks, along with Green Bay, for all their early season games. The only bad feature of that solution is that the pro people do not like to take league games out of league cities, which would be neces- sary if they had to use Buffalo's stadium. But it would enable them to get in cough early games so the season would not have to be extend- ed into January.
 Short On Seats
 Another temporary solution may be to rent the larger university and college stadiums available, but they, for the most part, do not have big enough seating capacities.
 There seemed little doubt but what puro football eventually will abandon ball parks all together un- less satisfactory compromise is reached by shortening the baseball season. Failing that, it appears 8 safe bet that the pro footboall peo- pie eventually will build their own parks, start their seasons earlier and no longer try to avoid conflict with baseball dates
 Big Money
 That would be a heavy financial blow to the nine baseball clubs which retn their parks for football. In most cases the ball clubs receive approximately IS per cent of the re- ceiptS. That means $15,000 on 8 $l00,000 gate, which are not uncom- mon in pro football today.
 Multiply that by the five or six home games each pro team has and you can see how much pro football rentals have meant to the New York Giants, the Philadelphia Athletics, the Detroit Tigers, the Cleveland Indians, the Chicago Cubs, the Pitts burgh Pirates, the Brooklyn Dod- gers, the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Senators.
 The New York Yankees, who do not rent their Staadiun for rro