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Quesada Aims His Lance
At Three Sports Writers
BY MERRELL WHITTLESEY
star staff Writnr

BY MERRELL WHITTLESEY
Star staff Writer
President Pete Quesada of
the Senators yesterday con-
cluded his three-part report to
"the Greater Washington Base
ball Public" and for those eX-
pecting dynamite it was some
thing of a dud.
With the exception of a
single reference to Bob Addie
of The Washington Post,
Quesada confined his criti-
cisms to columns written by
Shirley Povich of The Post and
Morrie Siegel of The Star.
He didn't mention anybody
else by name, and he gave
blanket clearance to the radio
and television sportscasters by
not mentioning them.
Main Points
Quesada's principal points
of complaint were references
that he had designs on gain
ing complete operation of the
d. c. Stadium, that the stadium
itself was given more credit
than the Senators for the 1862
attendance and the harping on
the trivial matter of elevator
privileges"
The general could not COM
plain about a lack of time to
prepare Chapter Three. He
promised to do his best to get
it to the papers by mid-week,
but he did not complete it un-
til $40 pm. yesterday, barely
in time for preparation of
stories for the first editions.
At the conclusion of the
10000 or more words, the
Senator's president notes:
1.-THE public does not care one
iota who owns the team or
what the directors are think
ing. And they don't want to
hear about me-"
Real Story Promised
Last week Quesada promised
"the real story behind certain
distorted news accounts written
by a small coterie of sports
writer's during the 1862 season.
1t will also be shown how these
practices, carried too far, as
they often were, can seriously
impair the prospects OF your
team"
Unless some pages are miss
ing from the report sent to The
Star, it is difficult to figure
how the stories he cited i'm
paired the prospects OF the
team.
Quesada said his idea, in a
few pages, was to "set the re-
cord straight, a record this
group of writer's has taken
endless words and dozen OF
columns, over many months, to
doctor and confuse. Was it too
much to hope that. as news
papermen, they might be will
ing-at least this once-to give
my words a chance to speak for
themselves?"
He complained that Addie,
in his coverage Of Parts One
and Two, gave his readers only
the sketchiest idea of what the
annual report actually con-
tanned.
'FIagrant Example
Quesada contended the Sen
ators' fans have been victims
of managed news" He said:
LET us start by going back
to when this pattern began to
emerge and cite only one
flagrant example - one from
which the contagion soon began
to spread.
"In early September of last
year, Morrie Siegel, who has at
one time or another written for
several of our daily papers,
published the following item:
The Senators are anx-
ious and willing to take over
complete operation of the
d. c. Stadium, currently be-
ing managed by the Armory
Board. That is he gist of a
letter Senators President
Pete Quesada wrote the DC.
Commissioners lately :.
"Since Siegel is regarded
more for his wit than for his
accuracy" uesada said,
"there was little immediate in.
terest in the report. But few
days later Shirley Povich, APP
parently not wishing to be out
done by Siegel in the art Of
fabrication, wrote a lengthy
column. on the very same sub
ject. He said, under his name.
and / quote
"a most surprising docu-
ment has come to light. 1t is
a petition to the Armory
Board by General Pete Que
sada suggesting that he, as
President Of the Washington
ball club, be made master Of
all d. c. Stadium operations
mot content with creating
out of whole cloth a document
which does not exist, he went
on to describe its contents in
precise detail, as though 1t
really did exist, He wrote:
"ouesada paints a glow
ing picture of the advantages
TO the Armory Board and the
city's taxpayers, He promises
a more economical operation
TO help offset the projected
S50O,000 annual deficit on the
Stadium bonds. Also, more
attractions to bring more