THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1959 THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1959 = New Major Football League Will Start with Six Teams s lEPOE . L tv>-.- I. MAJOR LEAGUE TOWNS--This map illustrates the tremendous area major league baseball will cover after the formation of the new Continental League. A total of 19 cities will have at least one team. " SheaSthe Magician New ,League By DAVE LYON Means End Associate Sports Editor Magician William Shea waved his wand Monday and brought into O f A A L oop Bing baseball's third major league. (Continued on Page 2) Other cities mentioned for pos- sible inclusion, he added, are Boston, Buffalo, Louisville, Miami; Seattle and San Francisco.; On the legislation issue, Bell endorsed a bill that would exempt the player draft, contract reserve clauses and club territorial rights Ike To See Opening Pan Games CHICAGO W) - President Eisenhower will be in Chicago Aug. 27, for the opening of the Pan American Games, which have drawn the largest squad of ath- letes ever named to represent the United States in international competition.' An announcement from Wash- ington said the President will at- tend opening ceremonies in Sol- dier Field and return to the White' House the same day. Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson, pres- ident of the U. S. Olympic Assn. filed the nation's official team en- try list of 408 athletes - 325 men and 83 women _. with Michael J. McDermott, chairman of the Chi- cago organizing committee for the third Games, Aug. 27-Sept. 7. The number of athletes, in- cluding full delegations in each of the 27 sports categories - 20 for men and 7 for women -- well ex- ceeds the previous high carrying Uncle Sam's colors into interna- tional competition. The biggest such group in the past was 326 entered in the 1956 Olympics at Melbourne.1 "The squad may vary slightly from the 408 tdtal depending on results of some team election trials still to be run," said Wil- son. "But this should be the strongest such group - not es- pecially in numbers, but in quali- ty - ever to represent the U.S. And this strength will be felt all along the line. "The U. S. has made vast im- provement in all sports. The big question is how much the other nations have improved. All this, of course, will be tested in the Pan Am Games. Shea, appointed by New York mayor Robert F. Wagner to head a committee to seek ways of getting a second major-league club in that city, succeeded by "building a league around it." He climaxed long months pf careful (and, for the most part, secret) negotiations by an- nouncing that,groups in five cities are prepared to sponsor professional baseball clubs in the new Continental League. Besides New York, the groups represent Toronto, Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Denver. Eleven other large cities, Shea said, are "interested in providing teams. Officials of both present major leagues have approved of Shea's efforts to expand major-league baseball beyond the present 16-team format which has been in existence since 1900. For one reason, they (along with Wagner) believe that metropolitan New York's 14,000,000 people should have the opportunity to support more than one major- league club. (They supported three of them for years.) They also believe that the rise in population of the country in the last 60 years justifies expansion. In 1900 there were 76,000,000 people and 16 major teams. In 1959 the population is 175,000,000, but there are still only 16 major teams. The main weakness of that argument lies in the fact that baseball is no longer the national pastime. It may have been such in past time, but it is not now. People have found other ways in which to divert themselves. The "sport of kings," accompanied by the pari-mutuel system, has muihroomed in popularity, and many good tracks today attract thou- sands of "commoners" for each program. There is a trend in the direc- tion of "participant" sports, such as golf, tennis, and swimming, as opposed to spectator sports. So baseball faces stiffer competition than it used to in attracting people's leisure-time attendance. Because of this, the Continental League may well be baseball's salvation. Fan interest will be created for major league teais in more than half a dozen cities where such interest has not been possible before (except in New York). But just because Shea has waved into existence the Continental League and uttered optimistic predictions does not mean that the hardest part of establishing this third league is finished yet. Rough Road Ahead . . There are many problems, some of which will be discussed when Shea and the five cities' franchise-backers confer with baseball com- missioner Ford Frick's seven-man committee Aug. 18. Even if Shea can get his league set up within baseball's present structure, he will face a'rough time getting it into actual operation unless he can conjure up solutions to the following: 1) Probable delays in Shea's ambitious timetable for commence- ment of operations. In three of the five "founding" cities, baseball stadiums of the proper size (35,000 or more) must be constructed from the ground up; in the other two, present minor-league parksmust be enlarged. Such construction will take time. Add to this the fact that sites for three of the planned eight teams have yet to be named (out of 11 possibilities), and Shea may well be faced in April 1961 with a league full of half-constructed ball parks, forcing a postponement of perhaps a year. It will be up to Shea to keep up the interest of the league's various financiers through any such delays. 2) The player problem. Players of major league caliber do not drop down from heaven (although Shea's magical powers could be underestimated). Yet 200 such players will be needed within two to three years to equip the Continental League. Where will they come from? Frick suggested that "the players will develop if you have the jobs for them." Edwin C. Johnson, former Colorado governor and senator, and currently one of the principal backers of Denver's pro- posed major league franchise, said, "The same question arose about players when the American League was born. I have faith in America." Regarding Frick's comment, there seem to be plenty of jobs avail- able on the 16 present major-league teams for players of major-league quality. And the American League, formed in 1900, did not snatch its players out of the ether. The AL was simply the continuance of the old American Association, which was considered a "minor" league up to 1900 by the older, jealous National League. 3) The minor league problem. This will be Shea's big stumbling block. The minors have atrophied within a decade from 59 leagues, 444 teams to 21 leagues, 150 teams. The Continental League might well finish off the minors altogether: a) It will deprive the minors of some of the best cities they have now, and break up or at least weaken the biggest of the minor circuits. For example, the American Association will lose four, and might lose seven of its 10 cities: Minneapolis and St. Paul, Houston, Denver, Dallas and Ft. Worth, and Indianapolis. The International League will lose Toronto, and might lose Montreal or Buffalo. b) It will further decimate whatever interest in the minors is left by saturating the entire nation with broadcasts and telecasts of major- league baseball. George M. Trautman, minor league president, has maintained that radio and television broadcasts have been a principal factor in the decline of the minors. c) It will decimate the ranks of minor league ballplayers, because from indications Shea has given, many of the 200 players in the Con- tinental League will come from the high minors. Shea appears to have plans for tapping personnel of the 16 present major league clubs, but will probably encounter resistance from Frick's committee of seven in the August meeting. Naturally, the majors will lose an invaluable asset if they lose the minor leagues. Bill Veeck, baseball owner of note, has suggested that cnllge h as.1l team will sunolant the minnr pventally when insti- DENVER (1P) - President Ed Doherty of the American Assn. said yesterday it was too early to tell if formation of a third major league would mean the end of the famous old Triple-A circuit, or- ganized in 1902. The new Continental League was formed Tuesday in New York. Four of the 10 American Assn. clubs joined the loop as "founding cities." They are Den- ver, Houston, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Two others, Dallas and Fort Worth, are under considera- tion. Minneapolis and St. Paul will be represented as one team. "I can't say right now what would happen to the association," said Doherty. "I'd rather wait and see what happens at the Aug. 18 meeting of representatives of the Continental League and a com- mittee of baseball leaders. from the antitrust laws. Commer- cial aspects of the sports would be subject to those laws. This bill is sponsored by Sens. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.), Thomas C. Hennings (D-Mo.), and Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill.). It is virtually identical with a measure which the house passed last year. That Bill died in the Senate. Subcommittee chairman Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) has offered a rival bill. It would put the pro sports under the antitrust laws and provide certain exemptions more limited than those in the Keating-Hennings-Dirksen bill. Objected to Provision Among other things, NFL Com- missioner objected to a provision in Kefauver's bill which would require football players to give their written consent before they could be drafted by league teams. Under the present system, the team ending in last place is given :flrst choice in the succeeding :player draft, and so on up to the top. Bell defended the current draft :system as needed to even out the :strengths of the competing teams. :He said it has proved itself by :developing a highly competitive league. Keating also testified for his bill yesterday, saying Kefauver's meas- ure would lead to unwarranted government interference in sports. Keating objected to a Kefauver proposal that would bar any major league baseball team from con- trolling more than 80 players. "Such- a provision could wreck baseball's minor leagues which, after all, provide the lifeblood for the big leagues," Keating said. Earlier, Keating hailed the an- nouncement of the planned third major baseball league as good news. Rumor Casey On Way Out NEW YORK (A) - Is Casey Stengel on the way out as man- ager of the New York Yankees? Some newspaper writers and many baseball dopesters say 'yes." The cold figures, and the Yan- kee management, say "no.' The Yankees, last- year's world champions, are now firmly in the second division. With Bill Skow- ron out for the rest of the sea- son with injuries, and Andy Carey, Tony Kubek, Gil McDoug- ad, and Bobby Richardson all suffering from a variety of ail- ments, only the most wild-eyed Yankee booster can see any hope for a pennant. So naturally the clamor is raised: fire the manager. Leonard Koppett writing in the New York Post says the signs "all point to the end of Casey's ca- reer as manager. That's not to say he'll be fired. But it is to say that any decision of his to retire would be welcomed by George Weiss." Weiss is the Yankee general man- ager. The Magazine Newsweek said an anonymous Yankee executive told its writer: "If Casey Stengel were to quit tomorrow, and coach Ralph Houk were named man- ager, our team would win the pennant. But he's not going to quit and we're not going to win." The Yankees promptly denied any executive had said anything of the kind. 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GB Chicago 57 40 .588 - Cleveland 57 41 .582 % Baltimore 50 50 .500 81,/ Kansas City 48 49 .495 9 New York 48 50 .490 9 Detroit 49 52 .485 10 Washington 43 56 .434 15 Poston 42 56 .429 15q YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Kansas City 6, Washington 1 Boston 8, Cleveland 4 Detroit 8, Baltimore 3 Chicago 4, New York 3 Cleveland 5, Boston 2 TODAY'S GAMES Washingtonaat Kansas City (N) New York at Chicago (N) Boston at Cleveland (N) Baltimore at Detroit NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. GB After a couple of practice rounds over the gently rolling, tree-dotted course, the top play- ers have guessed at a winning score of somewhere between 275 and 280 - even par for the 72 holes. Who's the best putter? Frank Stranahan, who was runnerup when the National Amateur was played over the same course in 1950, grinned at that question and answered: "Just go right down the list of PGA money winners and you'll find the greatest putters in the world. 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