fSbening Is Jgpof *** E>. Owners in on Washington. C., Tuesday. August 6. 1946—A—12 Ballplayers, Agree Main Reforms Minimum Pay,Pension w in, Lose or Draw Nats Rely on Leonard Head List of Issues By FRANCIS E. STANN To Trip Yanks; Wade Record Books Refute O'Neill's Rating of Williams Will As a fellow who has been in baseball for a long time. Steve Leagues Study Added as Insurance O'Neill contributed a weighty vote in Ted Williams’ behalf recently By Jack Hand w hen he insisted the tall Red Sox is the slugger greatest hitter of Associated Press Writer By Burton Hawkins all time. ‘He Sports never misses a swing.” O'Neill is quoted as adding. Dutch NEW Leonard will lug the Nats’ "A guy like that should not to one club. YORK, Aug. 6.—Baseball is belong three-game losing streak and a per- He should be around one happy family today with the passed from one club to the sonal record of similar proportions next from week to week.” major leagues' Policy Committee re- into the series opener with the New The ! porting "agreement in principle" be- record books, however, fail to back up York Yankees tonight at Griffith O'Neill's tween players and owners on pro- contention, unless he intended his words Stadium with the fond hope that to be a Williams the posed contract reforms. prediction. may become Washington's hitters are prepared hitter of all Not that any disagreement had greatest time, but he isn't yet. The to offer him more stylish support been expected. It was pretty much book doesn't say so. The Nats’ pudgy knuckle-bailer Williams is of a cut and dried proposition that , playing only his fifth season in has dropped three starts players would get substantially straight the majors. True, he has a lifetime average of [the and four of his last five decisions, ! what they wanted. After all, the 356 and in 1941 he batted .406. He's led the Amer- but against the Yankees he is dis- : owners them to ican in asked state their League hitting twice. playing a highly satisfactory season. Now let's case and they couldn't very well turn examine the record of a fellow like Dutch has 'em on each a cold shoulder on their demands. whipped Ty Cobb. Ty lasted 24 years and wound up with of the three occasions he has The diamond social revolution, con- a lifetime average of .367. He didn’t hit the long fronted them this year. mild in form, will cost the magnates ball that Williams belts, but he stole 892 bases and Leonard chiefly is responsible for' more money in 1947. There can be won hitting titles 12 times in 13 years, nine in the Nats’ record of five victories Francis E. Stann. «o question about that. But in the succession. in 11 games with the Yankees this long run. if the improved owner- the lellow who is one of Williams' bosses. General Manager season. In 24 innings against New' player relations can snap the union Eddie Collins, has a fair sort of batting record nailed down. Collins York, he has allowed 1 run threat and end the Mexican raids, only lasted 25 years and averaged 333. ; and 13 hits and walked 4 the magnates will consider it cash only over that span Ted Has 166 Home Runs: Rufh Hit 714 I ivell spent. Minimum Wage is Big Item. Wade Much Traveled Hurler. Williams has hit 166 home runs his career to date, which has been no during High on the list of matters to be 1 Pitching problem for isn't bad for a but GOSHEN. N. Y.—TROTTING TITANS—All set for the 21st run- young fellow, Babe Ruth hammered out 714 before discussed at yesterday's parley be- Manager Ossie Bluege, who currently he retired. And Ruth was more tnan a was a ning here tomorrow of the is hitter. He better out- tween the six-man Policy Commit- $50,000 Hambletonian Stakes are fretting about the Nats’ lack of fielder than Williams, a and more accurate thrower and, de- Brooks Hold to Lead (left to righti owned Mrs. James hitting. In their last three stronger tee, representing the owners, and Victory Song, by B. Johnson Through With games his heft, one of the base-runners. of Mexico, with the White Sox. the Nats spite good the six-man player group was a Rochester. Minn.; Westfield Girl, from the barn of E. J. Baker stirred Among the right-handed hitters, veteran critics rate of up only one run and generally minimum wage. The National St. Charles, 111.; Chestertown, just purchased for $40,000 by Washington Rogers Hornsby and A1 Simmons among the best of modern baseball. was defeated at Chicago in three of League athletes had asked for $5,500 By Crushing Second Walker E. Smith of Los Angeles, and Walter Spencer, from the Hornsby lasted 23 years, won seven National League cham- Says Owen, Anxious four games despite that batting no pitching and the American had set figure. Stable of E. Roland Harriman —AP or Wirephoto. yielded five pionships. hit .400 better in three seasons and finished with a When Chairman Larry MacPhail only runs. batting average of .358. With Roger Wolff and Marino of the major league committee an- Division Outfits Williams isn’t some of the trick that To Here Pieretti out with hitting against pitches Cobb, | nounced "as far as the committee's Play Again injuries, however, Ruth. Honus Tris and the other all-time By the Associated Press the acquisition of veteran Jake Hornsby, Wagner, Speaker recommendations are concerned Eleven • y »h® Associated Pr®ss batsmen 3-Year-Olds Are Named Wade from the great faced. Probably the trickiest today is the knuckle ball mutual in has Brooklyn's ability to defeat the Yankees will agreement principle BROWNSVILLE. Tex.. Aug. 6.— as thrown by Roger Wolff, Dutch Leonard, George Caster and a few Boston Braves and the been reached on all matters bis-1 Philadelphia Mickey Owen, former others. But the spitball is outlawed, along with the shine ball, the Phillies with almost montonous For Brooklyn cussed,” he included the minimum! Hambletonian Tomorrow catcher, who the Mexican emery ball and other weird deliveries. jumped to regularity continues and Manager the salary. Ry Associated Pres$ Walter Spencer, stablemate of league, is back in the United States Where Williams is the talk of baseball this season. Joe Di Maggio Leo Durocher has the knack of last j Because the owners believed it and said he was with was a few' back. When GOSHEN. N. Y., Aug. 6.—A field year's champion, Titan Hanover. through Jorge years he first came to the majors, some en- ! would be better to secret the yanking a faltering moundsman at keep of 11 Each of these will an Pasquel and his baseball setup. thusiasts called him better than Speaker, afield and at bat. He's 1 the time. 3-year-old trotters, headed bv have old exact details of their agreements right time still a but he isn't the $40,000 California hope. Chester- ace doing the piloting. Victory “If I can't, get back into good ballplayer, better than Speaker, who batted .344 until the 27 in With 101 games under their belt, organized August meetings town, from the barn of Walter E Song, a last baseball I'll for 20 years. Not yet, the Brooks a disappointment year, operate my Springfield anyway. Chicago, the exact minimum wage is enjoy two-and-a-half- [ Smith of Los Angeles, was entered will be handled by Palin, the Indian- (Mo.i farm for a living before I not known. game margin over the second-place He's the Class of Hitters today for tomorrow's 21st running apolis veteran who piloted the great ; would return to Pasquels Mexican Easily Today's The also will an allot- St. Louis Cardinals in the National players get of the Hambletonian at Good in ’35. Walter he told In all but 33 Time Greyhound Spencer league.' the Brownsville justice to Williams, he probably has his best years ahead ment to cover incidental expenses League, only complete games track. will be driven by Pownall, who was Herald. of him and he doesn't spout off about his being the best hitter in 4 MacPhail have been turned in by the Dodger (during spring training. Three seven and in the behind the Titan crew. 26 of fillies, colts one sulky a vear Owen arrived in Brownsville last baseball today, which he undoubtedly is by a w'ide, irrefutable margin. indicated it would not be the $5 hurling them victories. gelding were listed in the office of ago Down at the Red Sox's Sarasota <Fla> Wil- In 68 Dodger contests Durocher night and plans to continue to training camp, when per day that was asked, a sum he Track 201 hurlers in 30 Secretary A1 Saucders today Heretofore, it had been Mo., He is ac- liams hit the first pitch he saw over the fence, the rush to climb ! would run into employed bagging expected Springfield, tonight. estimated $150,000 to run for the aboard the victories and 32. Little Vic estimated ^28.000 purse that Gibson White. 31 -year-old companied by his wife. Williams bandwagon began. A reporter asked him if he per year. losing j Lombardi leads the hurle.s going to the top trotter in the member of the famed thought he would hit .400. Pension Plan Gains Favor.