Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1950 — Page 34

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By JOE WILLIAMS, Seripps-Howard. Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Nov. 9—Only the arts suffered when

Branch Rickey inked the d

over the directional policies of the Pittsburgh baseball club. | Because of labor struck newspapers there was no reading

audience, hence the stage sett austere. In such circumstanc He is unable to give, as the saying has it. There is something about]

-—the presence of reporters and|

camera men which challenges the| dormant theater in Rickey's soul! and given the stimulus of such props he gives you a show thaf blends the most bizarre of Bobby | Clark #nd Sen. Klaghorn, with] undertones of an ancient Prophet hurling ‘thunderbolts. - » ~ IT 1s to be regretted the Flatbush fugitive was unable to make a more elaborate entrance but the | good people of Pittsburgh are consolingly reminded there will be other times. True, the 69-year-old founder of the farm system may be slipping. as his past performance chart would seem to hint, yet he’s a most knowing baseball man and it's quite safe to predict he'll be the success in Pittsburgh he was first in St. Louis, then in Brooklyn, Only it will take him longer because conditions have changed and competition is sterner. His papers call for five years. Time enough. Provided the world doesn't blow its top completely Pittsburgh is believed headed for a new baseball era of substantial promise and nruch of the credit must go to John Galbreath, mild mannered, soft spoken Ohio sportsman who has been so successful In real estate and eonsuruction i. reson years,

IT WAS *GALBREATH who gatur aay

moved in and took charge last

Tue . 9:10 season when the club—destined to wednesday 10°10

finish last for the first timé since

ocument by which he took

ing was bare, the ceremonigls| . . { es the man is not at his best. |

But Rickey, even at his age {s| too vibrant to join .the rocking] {chair brigade. Besides, he has a| number of people. including rela- |

tives, who depend on his opera-|.

tions. One is a son who aspires

[to follow in the old. man’s foot].

steps. Ultimately he'll take over |

in Pitfsburgh. That's the signi-| ficance of the five- -year contract {with option. | n ~ i NOW WHERE DOES this leave William Zeckendorf, the New| York realtor who agreed to buy| out Rickey for $1 million or] thereabouts, but was unable to complete the Sea) when “other Brooklyn stockholders stepped in and exercised prior rights? No-| body in sports had ever heard of | Zeéckendorf before

Turned out he's a usthoss) friend of Galbreath-and, the Pitts-| burgh owner assures you, an! authentic baseball addict.

” “= " MY SPIES report a prospective! purchaser, unidentified, is pricing controlling interest ‘in the New| York Gidnts. It could be Zecken— dorf.- But pficing and buving are two’ different-things. 4 Horace Stoneham could he |

{ named the man who did the

most for baseball in 30 if he'd sell but there is small chance, Such citations apparently don’t interest him. More 's the pity.

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1917—was going nowhere. fast. Frank McKinney, a partner, trying to run the club by remote control out of Indianapolis and re-| lying heavily on Rickey sales, most of them bad, had failed, as, under the circumstances, he had to.

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