Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1929, Page 47

) SPORTS.® N gl C B . It AR, gL B R d Hornsby Suffers Winter of Disconlent After His Cardinals Bag Champions WORLD SERIES WIN < NOAD 0 ROGERS :'{“}oes to Breaden for More 2= Salary, but Boss Shifts Him to Giants. BY ROGERS HORNSBY. : FTER winning the world cham- ol pionship you might think a 2 fellow would be happy and contented and feel assured of . the future. But my experience Aollowing the victory of the Cardinals :;‘:r the Yankees in 1926 wa< the oppo- = When I think now of all the things that happened after that achievement »& wonder I didn't quit base ball in dis- gust. T guess the reason I'm still in the game is because my love for it makes me forget my troubles as soon as I get into & uniform and out on the field. * Here I was, after that big season, with my money invested in the St. Louis club, no contraci for the following year, and the president of the club apparently against me for no reason I knew about. ‘The situation perhaps made me a bit Jhard-boiled. Anyway, I made up my mind right there that when I was called to talk over a new contract I would “demand one for three years, to protect, my interest in the club. Also I decided “that they would have to pay me a lot of .Jponey. We had won the pennant, the st one St. Louis had had in 38 yearsy .'yhd the club had made a big profit. 1 felt I had something coming to me. -,» It Was some time after the world se- -rles before the new contract came up. y then Sam Breaden, the president, ~was talking to me again, but he wasn't the same as he had been at the start of the 1926 ceason. We got nowhere at our first conference. I told him I wanted a three-year contract and I named an amount of money that was g{efly big. He gave me no encourage- ent. + Offered Only Year's Contract. + Later we came together again. I “yanted the thing settled. I was open 3 discussion on the salary, but I was insistant on the contract being for three years. “T'll give you nothing but a one-year contract.” Breaden informed me with YETERAN A'S START “ SOUTH TO BOIL OUT By the Associated Press. “"PHILADELPHIA, January 31—The base ball season is just around the cor- fiér so far as Connie Mack, manager of the Athletics, and several of his regu- lars are concerned. Mack already is in Florida and seven of his veteran ‘players’ today were headed for Hot gs, Ark. This squad will spend three weeks at the resort preliminary to reporting to ‘the Spring training camp. at Fort Myers, Fla., the latter part of February. Jimmy Dykes, the Athletics’ handy man, and Coach “Kid” Gleason set out. for Hot Springs from this city, while bocn” peasetfoed, Bega heir Jouriey n : e from their home towns. Jack Quinn, Howard Ehmke and George Earmshaw, pitchers, and Al Simmons and Bing Miller, outfielders, make up the latter up. ml'b‘l" years the veteran Quinn has gone to Hot Springs b>fofe reporting for Spring training, and this extra bit of work and conditioning, he maintains, has bled him to stand the pace after many years on the mound. Sim- mons hopes to get rid of a_tendency to theumatism, while Dykes, Earnshaw and the others will take off some excess weight. . guu!.de of the Mickey Cochrane rum- ble about salary, nothing has been heard concerning contracts for 1929. With the exception of Dykes, whose contract has another year to rum, all the Mackmen must be re-signed this year. CUBS TO GET BELL IN TRADE IS RUMOR By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 31.—The New ‘York World says today that Lester Bell, third baseman of the Boston Braves, will be traded to the Chicago Cubs at the annual schedule meeting of the Na- tional League here Tuesday. The Braves will receive cash and probably » player or two. «Since the Braves claimed Joe Dugan from the Yankces by the waiver route some sort of a deal for Bell has been expected. With his former teammate Rogers Hornsby, Bell is counted on to give the Cubs one of the strongest in- fields in the circuit. Third base was one of the weak spots in the Chicago machine last year, with Clyde Beck, who occupied the position most of the time hitting only .257. Bell did not do much better, making only & .277 average, but in 1926 his mark was .825 with the Cardinals, and he was second only to Hornsby in driv- ing in runs for the world champions. Last season he never hit his real stride, falling off in his fielding as well as his batting. With the prospect of a cut in the world series money and with the encouragement Hornshy always has pro- vided for him, Bell is expected to make a much better showing with the Cubs if the deal goes through as expected. WALSH DUE TO PRESIDE OVER WESTERN NET BODY| CHICAGO, January 31 (#).—Harry i Walsh, Chicago, has been selected by the nominating committee to head the Western Lawn Tennis Association, which holds its annual business meeting here Saturday. James C. Stewart, president for many years, has said he would not be a candidate for re-election. Other officers selected by the nomi- { pating committee are Edwin J. Wuensch, Indianapolis, first vice president; Harry | 8. Knox, Chicago, secretary, and Walter T. Hayes, Chicago, treasurer. NORTHWESTERN quTEAM ON WESTERN SWIM TRIP CHICAGO, January 31 (#.—North- western University’s swimming team, ;which annually ranks as one of the strongest in America, will invade the West next month, engaging in meets with 10 university teams and athletic clubs. Eight swimmers will comprise the team, which will b> in chargs of Coach Tom Robinson. They plan to leave February 7. DIAMONITERS TO MEET. ! Collegian A. C. base ball candidates are to meet Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock at 655 B street northeoast to e plans for coming dirmond cam- gn. Former players and new candi- dates are asked to attend. AMERICAN LEAGUE RESULTS. Rochester, 26; New York Hakoals, 22, decision. And then he hinted at trading m e. I didn’t want to leave St. Louis. I had resolved to make my home there, and I wanted to stay with the Cardinals. I had my money invested in the club and it looked like a good investment. ‘We had just won a world championship and had a fine club, good for the next few years. But if Breaden was against me I realized that it wouldn't be so bad THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY. JANUARY 31, '1929. to be traded, especially to New York, and I figured right away that it would be New York. For I knew McGraw had wanted me before. “You have the right to trade me if you feel that way about it,” I said to Breaden. “I guess there are some clubs that would be willing to take me and give me the money, and give it for three years.” He wouldn’t discuss the matter with me. He was firm on & one-year con- tract. I think he would have paid me $50,000 if I had agreed to the one year. But I was determined to be just as firm as he, and see what would happen. I could scarcely conceive of his trad- ing me to some other club. I knew the fans in St. Louis were strong for me, and that there would be a loud roar if Breaden got rid of me. So I just thought I would let him worry along. ' I really didn't believe he would have the nerve to get rid of me. But in that I was mistaken. It was about the middle of December when Breaden called in the newspaper men ahd gave them the startling piece of news that I had been traded to the New York Giants for Frisch. They thought he was kidding. They wouldn’t believe it. They simply couldn’t think he would have the nerve to let me go just after our big year. They knew I was popular with the fans. But the announcement was made, and it was true. I was informed of it, and I wasn't greatly surprised. But I won- dered what would be done about my stock in the Cardinals. I knew it would hardly do to own stock in one club and play with another. I asked Breaden what would be done about it. The same fine cngar that enjoyed leadership on the Pacific Coast.. at 2 for 25¢. Now nationally famous at10¢. Youll like Van Dyck ! A " 'SPORTS." "’ “Oh, we'll take that off your hands,” he answered, but I thought then that there might be trouble over it. The stock, I knew, was worth a lot more than when ‘I had bought it early in 1925. I felt that I had done a lot to make it worth more. I felt that I was entitled to a big price for it. But the stock question wasn't settled then. ‘The next morning the papers printed columns about me going to the Giants. No one gave a suitable explanation. A roar came from the fans. This roar might have continued and made things embarrassing to the St. Louis club, buf after one day of it the Cobb-Speaker bomb exploded in Chicago and every- body forgot about me. (Copyright, 1929, by North American Newse paper Alliance.) (Next—Hornsby’s Year in New York.)