Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-12
WIN, LOSE OR
'DkAW By FRANCIS srANN
All But the BoHpIoyers

1T is ALL WELL AND GOOD for our lawmakers,
notably Senator Kefauver and Representative Cee to
back the Continental League and feel duty bound
to render any help " But the stand taken by some
newspaper colleagues that the American and National
Leagues cannot allow the edging to fail is contested
Simply because Congress and perhaps the Justice
Department looking their shoulders threatening
baseball with antitrust legislation, hardly means the
WebbS, Toppings Weeks Perkins, Stonehams, ct al
going about to help the Continentas get off the ground
Why should they?
The Continental in the first place, hardly figures to
help these businessmen neither directly in the
future And about the only practical way the National
and American Leagues could make instant of
the Continental would be to make available any and all
major league ballplayers they can't use
What leftover major leaguers, pray tell?
JOE CRONIN NEW PRESIDENT of the American
League has been criticized for saying that calling
league major league doesn't make it one" Cronin has
background and facts on his side Sure, Joseph might
be mite selfish like Warren Giles who bosses the National
League But the indiSpuabe fact is that there aren't
enough big leaguers for two majors much less third
Time after time, during the congressional hearings,
it has been brought out that the Yankees and the Dodgers
and Braves own many players hundreds in fact and
that they boarding them monopoly their farms
other club reach them and give them the chances
they deserve AS sometimes witness at these hearings,
we wonder why the Yankees, who mostly mentioned
for controlling baplayers aren't bringing these whzzes
in these troublesome times
The truth is that the Yankees haven't got EN- They
ship back the Brckels and bring up the Boyers Casey
StengeS pitching staff is shot and he yepS to George
Weiss the general manager end all general managers,
and George can't help him.
The Braves have been cited for having outandish
stockpile of talent So what happened? Red Schoen-
denSt pro who reluctantly in trade and who
their key in winning the 1857 pennant, became
TB victim.
AT LAST COUNT THE BRAVES described as so rich
in manpower were trying their seventh second baSeman
He Bobby Avila former American Lacquer and
possibly he is not the answer, to put it gently.
The Senators for years have offered living If mping
proof that ball players They few-too
few-but the others belong in lower leagues and should
be playing in Charlotte and Chattanooga and figuring
other ways of making living.
The lawmakers and other Continental enthusiasts
might go back few years and compare the way Connie
Mack and Miller Higgins operated, against Casey
Stengel and Paul Richards When AL Simmons was a
star he played only the outeld usually left although he
could do everything better than Elston Howard except
maybe catch. The that Simmons natural
outfeder and there were others to play first base
catch Howard plays all around the diamond because
Yankees are too thin to specify job for him.
TODAY THE MAJORS ARE using nfelders in the
outfeld and vice There pitchers who
first basemen and all sorts of strange departures which
has to stem from the lack of talent
This is lack for two leagues-not three Now, with
the Continental apparently getting into the act Cronns
words apt to be prophetic calling league
major league doesn't necessarily make it one"
The Continental Sounds like a dance, doesn't it?)
obviously embraces number of men with much money
and experience in in various fields. But far
all they've got mostly is the unofficial backing of
of legislators. Up to now, they have uniforms
balls no bats and no ballplayers.
All but the balplayers they can buy