Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1928, Page 60

.60 SPORTS.” . THE. EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. ¢. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1928.° Base Ball Ivory Market Booming Th Holling to Los Angeles That_about completed the deals as | they affected the major leagues. Righ | now most of the interest seems to re- | volve about Buddy Myer, Red Sox third { baseman, and Rube, and Pete Donohue |and Adolf Luque of Cincinnati’s mound staff. Rumors had Myer going to the | New York Yankees and Donohue or Luque, or both, to the New York Giants. | Officially, the clubs concorned knew Most Recent Rumors Have nothing whatever about these rumors. [Rcd Sox were disposing of Pitcher Carl 62 MEN SHIFTED IN LAST 3 DAYS Myer, Donohue, Luque f’ on Trading Block. | BY HERBERT W. BARKER. | Associated Press Sports Writ EW YORK, December 7.—More or less quiescent during the | playing seacon. the base ball | market where “ivory” is bonght | and sold with reckless abandon, | is booming along at its peak right now. | The “ticksr” has been able to keep up | with all sales so far but it's been taxed | to _the limit. = Whenever base ball men gather in| large quantities, as they have at To-| ronto, buying and selling of players be- | comes a favorite Indoor sport. Many| a minor league sensation has a hotel | lobby conversation to thank for his pro- | motion to the majors. Many a fading | veteran definitely was shunted to the| minors as two managers stood with | their backs to the lobby wall of some | Rostelry and talked the situation over.| A more or less complete count shows | that no fewer than 62 players have| changed hands in the past three days. | Most_of these deals, of course, were | completed at Toronto whare the annual | meeting of the National Association of | Professional Base Ball Clubs now is in | session. While the conventlon itself is direct concerned only with minor league mat- | ters, the boys from the American and National circuits have becn out in force, buying and selling in their eternal cf- | fort to “do better next year.” So 1ar few outstanding major league | players have been affected by the trans- actions, But there are rumors of trades | to come that may effect a wholesale | shifting in the major league line-ups next season. | The Detroit Tigers completed the most gensational deal, buying First Baseman Dale Alexander and Pitcher Johnny | Prudhomme from Toronto of the In- ternational League for about $100,000 | *in cash and three players. Toronto gets | First Baseman Sweeney and two| pitchers not yet selected. The Boston Red Sox wanted Catcher Alex Gaston and Outfielder Scarritt from St. Paul and swung the deal by giving the Saints Bryan Harriss, tall right-hander; Third Baseman Bill Rogell and an unnamed catcher. Four former major league stars took on managerial worries. Alan Sothoron, a good pitcher in his day, will handle Louisville’s team in the American Asso- ciation. Gabby Street, Walter Johnson old catcher, was hired by the St. Lou Cardinals to handle one of their *‘farms. Jack Bentley signed to manage York of the New York-Pennsylvania League, and Heinie Groh, who didn't have much luck at Charlotte in the South Atlantic circuit last scason, will take another managerial whirl at Hartford of the Eastern League. Evar Swanson, San Francisco Mis- sions’ outfielder, was sold to_the Cin- cinnati Reds, who also bought Bernie Neis from Seattle, probably for use at Columbus, which is controlled by the ‘The Browns sold Pitcher Walter Beck and First Baseman Guy Sturdy, the former to Buffalo and the latter to Bir- mingham. The Phils sent Pitchers ‘Walsh and Miller to Los Angeles and Outfielder Art Jahn to Portland. The LANDIS SAYS.HONESTY IS KEY TO PROSPERITY‘ TORONTO, December 7 (#).—Com- missioner K. M. Landis thinks bas2 ball needs only to be honest to be pros- perous. Speaking at a banquet given by the Toronto Club of the Intertationa! League to delogates to the conven.ion of the National Association of Profes- jonal Base Ball Leagues, the commi sioner said ‘Base ball can't be killed from the outside and it will continue to prosper just as long as the clubs and e leagues do business in a straightfor- ward and upright inanner.” PERCY JONES’ BROTHER SIGNED BY NEW HAVEN NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 7 (#). —The New Haven Eastern League base ball team, will have Outfielder Sam Jones of the Wichita Falls, Tex, League Club, in the line-up next sea- The player is a prother of Percy lee Jones, Boston Braves pitcher. lhe purchase was outright and no other players were involved. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, Decem- ber 7.—The Potomac River was very cloudy and the Shenandoah was clear this morning. RED SOX SELL HOLLING. LOS ANGELES, December 7 (#).— Purchase of Carl Holling, right-handed pitcher, from the Boston Red Sox has been announced by the Los Angeles Pacific Coast League club. COBB IN HONOLULU. HONOLULU, December 7 (#).—Tyrus Cobb, veteran big leaguer, has arrived here from a base ball tour of the Far East, during which he played with several college teams of Japan. SPORTS. is Winter : Decision on Draft Row Postpone RADICAL CHANGES 10 BE PROPOSED Relinquish Ownership of Minor League Clubs. BY BRIAN BELL, | Associated Press Sports Writer. DRONTO, Ontario, December 7 (#).—The base ball battlefield on the draft question §s to move from Toronto to West Baden, Ind., on the last day of the an- nual convention of the National As- | cociation of Professional Base Ball | Leagues. Indications were that the | question of promoting players by selec- | tion from the minors to the major leagues would be brought up for discus- ston again at the Indiana resort about January 15, When amendments proposed by the major-minor advisory council to the regulations of the national association | governing the draft were reached the whole mater was passcd over for con- | sideration in committee at West Baden. | A committee from class AA and A | will be appointed soon to seek a con- ference with a committee from the majors in an effort to iron out dif- ferences on the question of selection of | players other than by purchase. Minors below class A went on record here as favoring unlimited draft by the majors from the minors. Radical Changes Proposed. It is understood that the representa- tives of the Class AA leagues at the West Baden meeting will propose a sweeping change by which they will agree to the unrestricted draft if the majors in turn will agree to discontinue |the practice of owning minor league clubs which are used as farms and make major league clubs with minor league ownership in whole or in part inde- pendent of the hardship of the restric- tions of the draft as operative now in all class AA leagues. The proposal to have the majors re- tire from the minor league field comes just as the New York Yankees are re- ported negotiating for the Syracuse club of the New York-Pennsylvania League, Chambersburg in the Blue Ridge, San Griffith Sells Two Nationals; Boston Spurns Offer for Myer RESIDENT CLARK GRIFFITH of the Nationals, home this morning from Toronto, where, with Manager Walter Johnson, he attended the gathering of the base ball clans, did nothing more than reduce the roster of his big league club at the annual business | accept the drastic suggestion of a di- ' many years, [Move Is on to Have Majors | store” system of minor league cxups“ vorce from all minor league affiliations, Antonio in the Texas, and Nashville in | but the gesture was regarded as a possi- the Southern Association. | ble declaration of independence from The St. Louts Cardinals have a “chain | the big minors. ranging from class AA to class D. 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