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SNYPP* p PORT ^ NACKkJBy BlXiL StfYPP (lima News Sports Editor)p ROVER CLEVELAND ^ ALEXANDER 11130163 the automobile and the movies for the unmistakable decline in. baseball*“There’s no getting away from the fact that the kids aren't playing the game as much as they used to,” the renowned pitcher told Harry Grayson, New York spoils writer who bumped into Alex and liis hairy House of David team at Erie, Pa., (lie other night.Alexander's report, after four years of touring, from coast to coast and from Canada to the gulf, revealswhy major league clubs cannot obtain suitable athletes fron; the minors for love or money.Too many ninnsenn'uls and too convenient - transport a! ion. asserted old Pete to Grayson. “When I w;is a hoy at St. Paul. Neb., ihore was no way of jumping over to the nest, town to see what was going on there. You had to stay put, ami we played baseball because we liked to.While Alexander does not. believe Young Americas turningaw ay from the sport ever will affect the big shmv as it has the minors, he fears Unit the siuiul-anl of play never again will be os high us it Was during his £i'-vear stay m the N'allolVnl hug no.Alexander rattier enjoys his long bus ride each season with a team allegedly representing tlie religious colony at Benton Harbor, Mich. There are two of these squads and Alexander is the show window of the eastern division this term. He has company in Earl Smith, the former Pittsburgh, New York and St. Non is catcher.Old I Vie v. as the star of the far western tint fit ft year ago, mid Babe IMdriksoh, I ho women's Olympic star, being signed to replace him in tiio spring, illustrates to what extent promoters hare to go nowadays to drag the customers thru the ..asehaH turnstiles.Babe Pldrikspn and mules.” remarked Alex to Grayson. Donkey baseball Is played as a side f-how to the House of David games.Alexander. Smith, and a shortstop named Moulder are the only members of the eastern array not decorated with the regulation House of David chin adornmenl.“I couldn't wear those whiskers.” said Alex. ”1 didn't need whiskers when I was good.” Alexander, now 47, believes be still could win in a A A ieanue.
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The Lima News
Lima, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 13, 1934
Page 20
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