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3 HarryGraysonGrover Cleveland Alexander blamesthe automobile an^ the movies forthe unmistakable lecline in baseball. • * •“There’s no lotting away from the fact that the kids aren't playing the game as much as they used to,” the renowned pitcher told me when I humped into him and his hairy House of David team at Erie, Pa., the other night.• * •Alexander's report, after four years of touring from coast to coast and from Canada to the gulf, reveals why major It ague clubs cannot obtain suitable athletes from the minors for love or money.• • •“Too many amusements and too convenient transportation,” asserted old Pete. “When I was a boy at St. Paul, Neb., there was no way of jumping over to 1he next town to see what was going on there. You had to stay put, ard we played baseball becausewe liked to.”• • *While Alexander does not believeYoung America’s turning away fromthe sport ever wil* affect the bigshow as it has the minors, he fearsthat the standard of play never againwill be as high as it was during his20-year stay in the National League. • * •• Alexander ratner enjoys his long bus ride each season with a team allegedly representing the religious colony at Benton Hat-bor, Mich. There are two of these squads booked by Ray Doan, of Muscatine, la. Alexander is the show window of the eastern division tlds term. lie has company In Earl Smith, the former Pittsburgh, New York and St. Louis catcher.• * •Old Pete was the star of the far western outfit a year ago, and Babe Didrikson, the women’* Olympic star, being signed to replace him in the spring, illustrates to what extent promoters nave io go now adays to drag the customers through the baseball turnstiles.• • •Babe Didrikson and mules,** remarked Alex. Donkey baseball Is played aa a sideshow to the House qf David game*.• * •Alexander, Smith, and a short-
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Laredo Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Sun, Jul 15, 1934
Page 4
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