The Ypsilanti Daily Press

Bench Gossip
By HUGH FULLERTON

Columbus, O., Dec. 7—AP—The minor league convention session yesterday was held in the hotel's "Hall of Mirrors"—and apparently that's how the business was transacted—by mirrors...There's no other reasonable explanation of how the "AA" leagues became "AAA" the A-1 loops climbed up to "AA" and at least one B circuit, the Sally, moved into "A." The Piedmont is expected to duplicate that advance today...Anyway, we'd hate to trust those baseball guys in a spelling bee...That "business for myself" that Zeke Bonura has been talking about is ownership of the Beaumont Texas League Club....After what happened to Happy Chandler on the convention floor yesterday when he tried to lay down the law, it's no wonder the commissioner went to Muncie, Ind. and talked about atomic bombs....He's been hit by two of them.

Quote, Unquote
Carl Hubbell, Giants' farm boss: "The Class 'D' managers are the men who should be in baseball's hall of fame. They have the toughest job in baseball."
(Ed's note: Carl never tried to cover all the doings at one of these conventions.)

One-Minute Sports Page
Sam Breadon, who ought to know, claims that Manager Eddie Dyer is the toughest man who ever worked in the Cardinals' organization. "He'd be leading his league by 18 games," Sam explains, "and if one player got hurt Eddie would come screaming for help, claiming he was about to lose the pennant."

The Middle Atlantic League's Elmer Daily is baseball's oldest league president in point of service with his 22nd term coming up this year....There's one guy who probably could teach Happy Chandler something about politics....The 1946 Golden Gloves tournaments will bar "amateur" boxers who have been fighting five years or more from competing against the green kids who make up most of the field...

Lynn Chewning of VMI, who has been called the most underrated back in southern football this year, has an appointment to the naval academy and hopes to make it in 1946.

Cleaning the Cuff
Piedmont League officials, who have been getting together every few minutes to consider the Charlotte, N. C. problem, apparently are the only guys here who never heard of meat rationing...When Casey Stengel heard about the Coast League's bid for a major league rating, his comment was: "I've been here two days and haven't seen any of my club owners. Maybe they've gone major league on me."