The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-20
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 J. G. Taylor Spink, publisher of the Sporting News, that the late Pres ident Roosevelt's name be enshrined in the baseball hall of fame not only strikes us as being a good idea but also as being a shrewd one. It seems from this corner that this is one business matter that should be de- bated if it has to be and passed on in a hurry by the committee in charge of the hall of fame. The late president definitely did much in his official and unofficial capacities to guarantee the continuation of base ball in some of it's darkest hours. . Just before he died President Roosevelt, thinking of his country first and baseball secondly, came out in favor of the game despite power ful lobbying that he do otherwise. This and many other things that meant so much, especially in these times, definitely qualify the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, president and sportsman for a place in the baseball hall of fame. And to our way of thinking this action should be taken immediately. The sooner the better.
 The induction of Ray Sugar. Robinson into the Armed Forces after having been discharged last summer after serving IA months in the Army will definitely create a gap in the fight game that will be hard to fill because Ray was con- sidered one of the hardest-hitting welterweights in the game today. Uncle Mike Jacobs planned to open his outdoor season at the Polo Grounds in the middle of June with Robinson as his star attraction, but now that the colored clouter will be reinducted, the livewire promoter will have to dig up substitute. This sort of thing seems to reverse our democratic principles which state that their should be no discrimina- tion in any form. just wonder what the boys in the service would think of such goings on.
 
 The hesitat ton on the part of Sam Breardon, St. Louis Cardinal mana ger to agree to the Cooper brothers reported $15,000 salary demands seems at this time to be a little premature. In these times when baseball talent, that is good base ball talent, is hard to find and then hold on to, it seems just little silly that club that is shooting for their third National League pennant in a row to quibble over thousand dollars in a matter where two of their best players are at stake. Of course their are two sides to every story; we have presented one, but we are always willing to listen to MT. Breardon's if it is a good one.
 They say that every one is en- titled to 8 guess and miss! There fore we would like to make guess which we hope won't be a miss but one that will be right on the nose. We would like to guess who Is going to cop the National and who is going to cop the American League pen- nants, an admirable task indeed. We would like to pick the St. Louis Cards to repeat in the National aad the St. Louis Browns to take the American League Pennant. And going still one step further we would like to pre- dict that if there is 8 World Series that the Cards will edge out the Browns in another Command Per- formance. The reason for our selec- tions can be boiled down consider ably to few words; that both these clubs have been able to remain in- tact better than any other clubs in the leagues after having been hit by the draft. So you St. Louis fans keep your fingers crossed. Because they are in there again.
 Local Note: If Bunker Hill Cram mar School is given permission to have a baseball team this year by their principal Ralph w. Darlington, 1t will in all probability be coached by Wilmont (Buddy) Ebbs. Ebbs was the assistant to Dave Fairbanks last season.