The West Coast Case

Pacific Coast baseball men are fed up with playing Santa Claus to the major leagues. They do not like losing their Buck Newsomes, Joe Di Maggios and Ted Williamses. They think postwar air travel may well lure some big-league club to pick up a Los Angeles franchise (the St. Louis Browns nibbled at it two years ago). Above all, they await the day when they can support a third big league of their own.

To put the West Coast case at the annual minor-league meeting, Clarence ("Pants") Rowland, bellicose Pacific Coast League president, last week shuffled off to Buffalo. There he won support on two main issues: 1) henceforth the Pacific Coast and other AA leagues should get $10,000 (a compromise figure) instead of $7,500 when one of their players is drafted by a major-league club; 2) if & when the major leagues invade minor-league territory, the incumbent minor-league owners should get first crack at the major franchise. Not even energetic Pants Rowland expected the resolutions to be approved at this week's major-league powwow; but he plainly intended that his P.C.L. would be heard from again.

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