The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-06
CHANDELIERS
 POSTWAR PLANS Q. K.
By CARL LUNDQUIST Limited Press Sports Writer)

Columbus, O., Dec. 6 - (UP) - Baseball Commissioner Albert (Hop- py) Chandler left no doubt today of his devotion to Americas number one sport" but faced the question of just how devoted its key repre- sentatives were to him.
 Chandler, facing thinly yelled op- position to his regime, stood on his feet in the hotel at the Minor League meetings for five hours after his arrival from Louisville and spread the gospel of baseball to all who would listen. He interviewed newspapermen by the dozen, he spoke warmly to league presidents, baseball players, coaches, managers and fans as they paraded by and he was effervescent to all about the im- mediate future of the sport.
 Elected commissioner last spring by Major League executives as "the man among all of the candidates who loved baseball the most, he made it clear even to the skeptical that there could be no doubt of his enthusiasm, though there were some who questioned his judgment.
 Pleased on Acceptance
 Obviously pleased that the Minor League executives had passed his program for a permanent postwar foundation to develop and protect baseball's sandlot youngsters, he by- passed the fact that they had. .ignor- ed his request that the program be administered by his office.
 The resolution passed by the Minors stipulated that 'the office is to be apart from any other office now in baseball" but that made no difference to Chandler.
 This is a great revival" he said. Ut probably is the best training program ever undertaken by base ball, even though it is just a step in the right direction-that is all"
 Chandler said he felt keenly the fact that perhaps hundreds of great baseball stars-maybe some as outstanding as Babe Ruth or Lefty Grove never had a chance because they lived in an era when their tal- ents were not discovered.
 Many Never Get Chance
 T believe there are just as many great athletes who never have had a chance in this country as there are who became great stars" he said.
 "They died on the vine for lack of opportunity, because like your dad and mine they had to spend their most productive years play ingeone or cat on a corner lot"
 There is more truth than poetry to these lines that go 'ful many a rose is born to bloom unseen and waste it's fragrance on the desert air." he said. And we don't want it to happen to any promising kids. "
 Chandler said that he was seek ing approval by the Minors and Ma jors and that he also would ask President Harry Truman to set aside a day next season to be declared as baseball day" in which all clubs will fill their parks by contribut- ing a days proceeds to the youth program.
 While Chandler outlined for the first time, his promotional program for baseball, the Minor Leaguers rounded out the first day of official sessions by approving the smaller scale recommendations of the Chandler appointed om m t t e e which suggested that $50,000 be set aside for the fund to help develop Sandlot talent.
 They also agreed to make no neg citations with high school athletes which would interfere with their eligibility as amateurs, except in unusual cases"
 These cases would be only in the case of stipulation by a boys high school principal and his parents jointly that his best interests would be served through alignment with professional baseball club