Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-20
WIN, LOSE OR
1NAV By FRANCIS sTANN

As GEORGE PRESTON MARSHALL win

AS GEORGE PRESTON MARSHALL will be only too
happy to remind one and all, he the first Tor at
least the loudest to proclaim that football would become
the biggest of all industries Now it has to pass
Nobody, however, could be happier over the remark
able tunouS in Los Angeles and San Francisco than two
old sportsmen connected with baseball named Walter
OMalley and Horace Stoneham. What's sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander, they thinking.
OMalley and Stoneham you know, have moved their
baseball clubs formerly known the Brooklyn Dodgers
and New York Giants, respectively from Greater New
York to Los Angeles and San Francisco Object money
And they stand to make some, too.
The Los Angeles Rams stand at this writing a
chance of becoming the first pro football team to draw
million spectators The San Francisco Forty Miners
aren't doing too badly, either They drew 5o593 with the
Chicago Bears october q and 59702 with the Detroit
Lions on November g. Both selouts despite the
discrepancy of 109 spectators.
NO NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE team, however
made it so big, attendance-wise as the Rams in the
Coliseum Sunday before last of course the topper
with 102,368 for the Forty Winners game Over 10000
turned away and another 900 refunded their
money because of lack of seats
One would be forced to reyauate the popular estimate
of Mr. oMaey had his reaction been anything but what
it Promptly OMalley set the wheels in motion to
determine whether most Of all the Dodgers 1858 home
games could be played in the Coliseum instead of the
40 or so originally planned.
wrigey Field, which oMalley hopes to pass onto the
city Of Los Angeles in exchange for 800 in Chavez
Ravine suddenly became much smaller than it really
Until the super-park Chavez Ravne is built if ever
the Dodgers plan to the 225OO-seat wrigey Field
part of the time.
ut simply won't suffice the way the reservations
coming in particularly in blocks from big companies
Lefty Phillips Dodger spokesman proclaimed, referring
to Wrigley Field
Then, with kind word for the little man. he piouSly
added And that doesn't take the average FAM
backbone of our business, into consideration"
THERE is ONE SCHOOL (not big ohe to be sure)
that wonders if the football Rams spectacular
spells out for certainty equal riches for the baseball
Dodgers.
Remember" Los Angeles informant says chat
right the only team in town is the Rams There's
nothing else big league, except racing And the Rams
owners are playing it smart, too.
They up with teams featuring passers who
throw long accurately and with ball carriers
who fast The Los Angeles fans the type of foot
ball their pros play.
Remember too, the Rams play only six times at
home in Los Angeles. The Dodgers will be playing n
home games And If they're not up in the OMalley
may be wishing he were playing in smaller place than
the Coliseum"
THAT'S ONE WAY to look at it, More logically how
it may be assumed the Dodgers will do better than
all right in the Coliseum, although weird baseball
may be perpetrated in that gigantic of steel
concrete. 1t was not precisely designed for baseball
AS for the Dodgers failing to be up in the race it's
unlikely to happen If OMaey has anything say about
It, It's unlikely anyway because quite some years
the Dodgers have been in rut, NICE money making
first division rut.
For 10 straight seasons the Dodgers have finished
among the top four in the National League six times
winning the pennant In the last 10 they finished
out Of the first division only once and that was in the
war year Of 1914 when they finished seventh
You are getting old II you can remember when the
Buns were habtually in the second division.