Sport: Minneapolis Senators?

The twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul add up to a potential major-league baseball franchise, and at least two American League teams—the sixth-place Cleveland Indians and the last-place Washington Senators—seem eager to travel. With a knowing wink eastward, the Minneapolis city council one day last week voted a $9,000,000 bond issue to enlarge Metropolitan Stadium from 21,000 to 41,000 if a big-league team should homestead there. Barely an hour later, the St. Paul city council voted a bond issue to enlarge Municipal Stadium from 10,250 to 42.000 for any team that dropped by.

Whichever team ends up in whichever city, the new fans will have to have some hope of an occasional good season, or they will probably become as indifferent as the old. Typical apathetic fan: President Eisenhower. Said he in his press conference last week: "If the American League club here had a fighting chance, on the average, of getting into the first division, I, for one, would be down at a good number of their evening games to see them. If we could only have that. I am practically certain this city would demand that they stay here, and I think they should. But I think they should have a little bit better club."