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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 26;1946
By BILL SIMS
Another attempt is being made to organize ball players into a union. It is the fourth effort to organize them, but the other three died out quickly. Baseball is a profession and not a trade. That is one reason why a ball players union is impractical. No two ball players are of precisely the same ability, therefore it would be impossible to set a maximum wage scale.
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What makes baseball a highly competitive game is the lack of salary cellings. Place a limit on pay, and the game will collapse because many players, realizing they were being paid the limit, would play only as well as they had to play, instead of as well as they could.
Baseball men are curious to know whether the union advocates would so a certain wage scale for pitchers, ca chars, first basemen, etc. Would they want Hank Greenberg, for example, to slash his salary to strike an average for first basemen, or would they demand that all first basemen receive the same pay that Greenberg does?
It seems to me that a union in baseball would knock the game flat on its back. Perhaps this attempt will fade quickly like the others, but the union officials claim that they have made much progress. It will bear watching to see how many ball players fall for the scheme.
There is a ludicrous side to the threat of unionizing the game. A manager might want to make a switch at one of the positions, but the players would object. If the manager insisted, he would cause a strike. Or, players might strike if they didn't like the umpire, or if they objected to the locker room, or the way the playing field was kept up.
Just imagine a 5 o'clock whistle on the center field fence; time and a half for extra-innings; vacations with pay; five-day weeks; guys walking up and down in front of baseball parks with sign: "Organized Baseball Unfair to Lefty Doakes."
The incidents that could develop are almost limitless, and the life of unionized baseball, while real merry, would be very short.
Churchill Downs officials are getting set for the 72nd annual Kentucky Derby May 4, and they are expecting 110,000 or more persons as compared with last year's 85,000.
The bluegrass classic will no longer be the wartime "streetcar" event, but will bring representatives from just about every state. Hotels have been sold out for weeks and are still turning away reservations by the hundreds daily.
Eddie Arcaro has chosen the horse he hopes to ride to fame this year, Arcaro picked Lord Boswell, and he can pilot him home in front. Eddie will be the only four-time Derby winner.
Netters Chalk Up Fifth Victory
The Jayhawker tennis team extended its victory string to five for the season yesterday when it defeated Washburn university, 5 to 2, in a return match.
R. Shoaf, Bob Groom, Charles Carson, and Charles Snyder won singles matches for Kansas. Bob Taggert of Washburn defeated Bob Barnes in the other singles match. Groom and Shoaf teamed to win the first doubles contest, but Tom Dulos and Richard Cray lost the second doubles.
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Durocher Acquitted On Assaulf Charge
New York (UP)—Leo Durocher, fiery and管理局 manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was acquitted Thursday on a charge of second degree assault that arose out of a dispute with a fan at Eocets field.
Joseph Moore, a special patrolman at Ebbets field, also was found not guilty by a jury of 11 Dodger fans and a non-baseball addict.
They had been accused of striking John Christian, a war veteran who used to go to Ebbets field three or four times a week to heckle "them bums." He charged that Durocher and Moore took him under the stands during a night game between the Dodgers and Philadelphia on June 9 and beat him with a black-jack and Durocher also hit him with his fists.
Conviction on the second degree assault charge would have carried a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $1,000 fine.
Conviction also probably would have meant the end of Durocher's colorful baseball career for only once in the history of organized baseball has a convicted felon been permitted to play the game. That player was Alabama Pitts, who was granted special permission to play after serving a term in Sing Sing prison for robbery.
Under baseball law, the matter would have been up to Commissioner A. B. Chandler, who would have had the power to bar Durocher he had decided that his actions were detrimental to the game.
Carruth, Old Timers Win Softball Games
Carruth, Old Timers, Ship's Company, and Phi Kappa Psi were victors in intramural softball games Thursday.
Carruth won over Jaycees in a high scoring game, 10-8. The Old Timers swamped Delta Upsilon, 15-9, after a slow start.
Ship's Company played a tight game with Phi Gamma Delta and 7-5. Phi Kappa Psi won over PT-9, was able to outscore it opponents, by default. The game between Ten Eycks and PT-7 was postponed and will be played today.
Son Born Tuesday To Press Employee
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bishop, 2209 Rhode Island street, have announced the birth of a 10-pound, 3-ounce boy Tuesday at the Lawrence Memorial hospital.
Mr. Bishop is employed by the University press.
Nadyne Brewer, mezzo soprano, a pupil of Miss Meribah Moore, will give her senior recital at 4 p.m., Sunday in Fraser hall. She will be accompanied by Allen Rogers at the piano.
Brewer Recital Sunday
James Naismith invented basketball in 1891.
Edwin Thayer, Engineering sophmore, fractured his left clavicle in the Phi Gam-Ships Company intramural softball game Thursday. Thayer, Phi Gam catcher, and Curtis Hinshaw, College sophomore, Phi Gam first baseman, collided when both went after a foul fly ball between home plate and first base.
Thayer, Hinshaw Injured in Game
Both men were taken to Watkins hospital for treatment. Hinshaw suffered a bruised shoulder, and was dismissed after treatment.
Sigma Chi, Beta's Win Close Games
Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Theta, Kappa Sigma, and Beta Theta Pi were victorious in softball games played on the intramural fields Wednesday afternoon.
In Division III Delta Tau Deltaw swamped Sigma Ph Epsilon, 13-2, after Baker, Delt hurler, held the Sig Eps to 2 hits, Sigma Ch defeated Sigma Nu, 9-3, after staging a two innings rally in the sixth and seventh to pull away from the previously close game.
Kappa Sigma tripped the score against the PT-9 squad to win easily, 15-4. V-12 (A) played a close game with Beta Theta Pi with the Beta's pulling from behind to take a 8-3 decision from the navy men. Phi Delta Theta overwhelmed Carruth in a hit-and-run game with the Phi Delt's holding a 17-4 marzin.
This afternoon games in division I will be Ten Eycks vs. PT-7, and Phi Kappa Psi vs. PT-9; Battfeld vs. Phi Kappa, and Carruth vs. Jaycex in Division II. The games in Division II are Phi Gamma Delta vs. Ship's Company and Delta Uplison vs. Old Timers.
Baseball Results
National League
Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 3.
Cincinnati 7, Chicago 5.
Boston 5, New York 4.
Brooklyn at Philadelphia, post-
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American League
American League
Detroit 6, St. Louis 5.
Boston 12, New York 5.
Chicago 11, Cleveland 2.
Philadelphia at Washington post-
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Seniors, Graduate Women To Be Guests of A.A.U.W.
Senior and graduate women students will be guests of the Lawrence branch of the A.A.U.W. at a tea from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, at Miller hall. Miss Nora Wahn, speaker at the Honors convocation Tuesday morning, will be a special guest.
Mrs. William S. Johnson, Miss Ruth McNair, and Miss Kate Riggs will be hostesses.
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Jayhawker Thinclads Invade Iowa Today For Qualifying Rounds of Drake Relays
A squad of 14 Jayhawker thinclads invaded Des Moines, Iowa, today for qualifying rounds for the Drake Relay tomorrow afternoon.
K. U.'s high jump ace, Tom Scocfield, who has cleared 6 feet 6 inches to take firsts in the Texas and Kansas Relays, is favored to capture his third high jump crown tomorrow. Scofield's partner in this event is veteran Bob Stoland.
Freshman Karl Ebel, who has startled crowds in his first performances for K.U. by breaking 190 feet in the javelin toss is expected to place high in this event, which will probably be dominated by Michigan State and Notre Dame entries.
The crack relay squad of Andy Lumsford, Hank Raab, Harold Hinchee and John Jackson will be trying for their third straight mile relay win, although Hinchee is nursing a bad ankle.
The shot and discus events will be in the hands of Leroy Robison, who placed third and fifth respectively in the Kansas Relays last Saturday. Robison, whose events take place
this afternoon, has been on the sick list.
"Hurry Harold" Moore, second place winner in the Glenn Cunningham mile last weekend, will participate in the Drake two-mile run. Moore, a staunch two-miler during the fall cross-country season, reported again to Coach Ray Kaneh, two weeks ago.
Charlie Black, KU's All-American basketball ace who has surprised fans with a versatile track performance since he joined the squad several weeks ago, will try to take the pault vault, an event in which he tied for second in the Kansas runnings last week.
Little Mel Stevens, Tulane transfer, will be representing Kansas in the broad jump event. Mel took fifth in the Relays last week, and has jumped consistently over 21 feet this season.
Relay men, John Jackson, Harold Hinchee, and Andy Lunsford will run the low and high hurdles. K.U. will not be represented in the 100-yard dash.
'Most Expensive' Cooper Will Be Out for a Month
New York, (UP)—Walker Cooper, baseball's most expensive piece of bric-a-brac was on the shelf today—for at least a month.
The big catcher, who cost the New York Giants $175,000 when he was purchased during the off-season from the St. Louis Cardinals, broke the small finger on his throwing hand Thursday when he was struck by a foul tip in a game against the Braves.
War Crimes Trial in Uproar
Nuernberg. (UP) — The war crimes trial was thrown into an uproar today by the disclosure that a witness had been threatened and with charges of plotting for mutual protection among the defendants and their lawyers.
Justice Robert H. Jackson told the court that threats were made against Hans Bernd Gisseius, former attache of the Nazi interior ministry, while he was waiting to testify.
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