Braves May Soon Go To Milwaukee

The Braves are finally back on the warpath this season, according to a report from the Sporting News. However prospects are that the team will not be marching toward a pennant, but toward Milwaukee.

In a copyrighted story, yesterday the sporting newspaper said major league executives will meet Monday in Tampa, Fia, to consider a request from Brave owner Lou Perini that the team be moved to the Wisconsin city.

If true, the action will climax a few years of agitation by Milwaukee's public-spirited and publicity-minded citizens, a year of stubbornness by Perini, and a few months of speculation by everybody and his brother. It will leave Boston with only one team, the Red Sox, and perhaps not too many disheartened fans.

The Braves last year drew exactly 281,000 fans to Braves Field, and Perini moaned all season. "I lost more money this year than any other owner in baseball history," he said last late summer.

Browns May Move

Until recently, however, Perini has reportedly refused to move his Brewers out of Milwaukee to make way for the St. Louis Browns. He turned down $500,000 for that deal.

But Milwaukee, with a new $5,00,000 stadium, didn't want any part of a mere Triple A ball club, and it was pretty mad about losing the chance at the Browns.

The pressure, as well as the financial doldrums, seem to have been deciding factors for Perini; even the lateness of the move came as something of a surprise. As the Daily Record announced. "The sporting world was rocked to its very foundations." It well might have been, for in the same story, the Sporting News said the Browns will hustle out of St. Louis bound for a permanent home in Baltimore.

All that remains now, amid the general walling and weeping that is sure to result among, if no one else, the Boston sports scribes, is to have the Sporting News announce that the Yankees are singing "Shuffle Off to Buffalo."

Perini last night refused to comment on the Braves leaving. Heretorfore, he had denied such immediate action.