Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1932, Page 45

WASHINGTON, D.. C, THU. Foeni ‘WITH SUNDAY NORNING EDITION RSDAY, DECEMBE o Star, 1 5, - 1932. = e ot Classifiod) eatures and Classified PAGE D-—1 More Griff Trades Likely Before Local Club Is Satisfied With Player Roster LANDING WHITEHILL GRATIFES__G_RIFHIH Pleased With Trade for Mar- | berry—Chisox May Figure in Next. BY TOM DOERER. EW YORK, December 15.— The roar of the biggest trade gun to be fired at this snow-time meeting of the tall bonnets of base ball still reverberates through the corri- dors of this diamond meeting house. It's blast awoke a snoozing American League group which, up until the gun popped, had talked much and said | nothing. It's charge set off the fire- works in the National League, causing the Giants, Braves and Reds to do a little Christmas shopping. And before the smcke clears away from Washington's deals with the Browns and Tigers another gun or two is likely to bark, and it will come from ‘Washington headquarters, now the most busy spot at this jawing jamboree. Uncle Clark has given pitchers for itchers and outfielders for outfielders. ow he is expected to using a first baseman as bait for a oatcher, or something of the sort. Now that Fred Marberry has been swapped for Earl Whitehill of the Tigers, following that six-play deal with ths Browns, Harley Boss may go to Cleve- land for a pitcher and an infielder—and some cash from Billy Evans, and an- other deal may bring in a seasoned catcher. 'OE JUDGE probably will be back to aid Joe Kuhel as doorkeeper for the Nationals because Brooklyn will not do any business with Uncle Clark at his terms. Joe and Max Carey were in three pow-wows, then it was finally announced that the Brooklyn Club would abandon its quest for Judge. Del | Bissonette, the Dodger first sacker, is ill in a hospital, and Carey was sincere in his quest for Judge. So, as the matter now appears as the trigger is beng snapped on another Washington trade deal, Uncle Griff is going to be plentifully supplied with new faces for 1933, just as I told you several days 2go. And Uncle seems to be the one magnate who is adhering to | the best advice here which is that & club to draw ncxt yoar will have to| have ncw fac>s and flashier base ball. | And that combingtion ususlly comes in pairs. A fellow | practic> economy, the Griff trade of Revnolds, West and Brown to St. Louis for Goslin, Schulte and Stewart is the highlight topic. Who obtained the better of this transaction is a sub- ject for debate. Bfll Killifer, Brownie manager, tells me it is all St. Louis, end he names Sammy West as one of the greatest roaming outfielders in the Bilv Evans of the Cleve'and savs West is s great player. And. Bi'lv also informs me. he is sweet on | Teftv Brown, and tried to make a trade | for him last year. And so it goes. | On the other hand Griff is blinking haopily, chewing his cigars at a ranid rate and sayine what a fine deal propo- sition he was ab'e to make. He believes Goose Goslin is going to have a big year in Washington, and is under the impression that the Goose will bang ‘em_high, wide an’ cute against the barriers fo please the trade in Wash- Ington who have been of the impression that the club ought to have a fence rattler. This man, The Goose, all of the bovs tell me. is no Simmons. Foxx or Ruth. but still he can call his shots against | the fense sufficiently to rate him “the | punch” With Schulte. who ought to hit better next vear under new canopy, | Manush plastering them regularly and Rice and Harris plugging in, Goose | ought to look well 'TEWART, who won 15 and lost 19 | with the Browns is a better pitcher than that and in a Washington uni- form Griff is confident he will prove it. Lefty Brown turned in 15 wins and 12 losses for Griff. As for the Marberry-Whitehlll trans- action Griff is elated over having ob- tained a second lefthand pitcher to team with Stewart, which is one more southpaw than the club boasted last season when Brown was its lone port- side flipper. The veteran from De- troit, by way of comparison, piled up 16 wins, against 13 defeats, for the second division Tigers, while Marberry, with the first diysion Griffs was able to win only 8 games, while losing 4. ‘With both sides claiming the election and the rest of the American League agape, Griff goes cn to look over a proposition from the Chicago White Sox, another from Cleveland, and, would you believe it, still another from the Browns. But Griff will not ad- mit it. Judge's status is unchanged. He talked business with Donie Bush of Cincinnati on _a coaching proposition. spent a lot of time in trying to get| the Dodger matter straightened out, and looked over two other offers. Ater Johnson still_is_looking for a job, nothing much has been done about pruning expenses, except the sug- | gestion that magnates turn out the| lights in their offices when not using | them, write on both sides of their sta- | tionery and use subways instead of taxicabs. Nick Altrock's job has been saved, Uncle has been named a director in| the American League, Joe Cronin has gotten some valuable experlence and the Senators can play Cleveland in training camp games mnext Spring. Which they could have any time they wanted, according tc President Har- ridge who he tells me, could find no rule against it in the American League books. SEWANEE TO PLAY VANDY Will Resume Foot Ball Relations in Game Next Armistice Day. SEWANEE, Tenn., December 15 (). —The University of the South will meet six Southeastern Conference foot ball teams in 1933, including the resumption of relations with Vanderbilt University in a game on Armistice day. The sched ule follows: hsqmmbet 30—Kentucky at Lexing- Gctober 7—Florida (place undecided). October 14—Southwestern at Mem- Pphis. . October 21—Mississippl at Oxford. Oc! r 28—Cumberland. tobe: November 4—Tennessee Tech. November 11—Vanderbilt at Nash- S these base ba'l economists start | | S this circus comes to a close Wal- | have nominated him for the Metro- No Gain for Either Club Seen In Griff Deal by Browns’ Fans There is some regret at the depar- ture of Stewart. He is a hard-wo) ing, conscientious pitcher with a great deal of real ability and with a good team behind him should make a fine record. To offset his loss is Brown, who, strictly on the 1932 record, is as good as Stewart, 50 there is not much of a loss there. It has been known for some time that Bill Killefer, manager of the Browns, was not satisfied with Gos- lin's work last season. He felt that Goslin did not give his best, that he was dissatisfied with his surround- ings, which meant only one thing— get rid of him. Schulte came to St. Louis in 1927 with a great blare of trumpets from Milwaukee, hailed as “another Cobb,” etc., but he was just a good out- fielder here. Good natured, easy going, Fred did not show the spark of greatness. Physically and on the recent rec- ords of the men_involved, it is diffi- cult for the St. Louis fans to see-an edge one way or another. The only advantage seems to be that Brown is three years younger than Stewart, and that Reynolds is younger than Goslin. Only the work of those in- volved in 1933 will show which team, if either, got the better in the trans- action. | ST. LOUIS, Mo., December 15— when he heard of the trade ‘Washington Senators in exchange pickings on the golf course and I not a dyed-in-the-wool Brownie fan Ball's American League entry ex- saw it, the Browns got all the worst generally it appeared that this is the Clark Grifith have done. They ward to seeing new faces in the deal. Nash Brothers’ Horse Will Be | Special Dispatch to The Star. “Golly, that's too bad,” re- marked a St. Louls golfer which sent Goose Goslin, Walter Stewart and Fred Schulte to the for Lloyd Brown, Carl Reynolds and Sammy West. “Goslin was sure easy hate to see him go.” Needless to say, the golfer was but another St. Louisan who is con- cerned over the fortunes of Phil ploded with non-drawing room lan- guage about a deal in which, as he of it. But to the St. Louis base ball fans season for exchanging Christmas greetings and that is what ball and can't see that either club has gained much or lost much. They lock for- Browns' line-up next Spring and they feel that is the extent of the - . E Taken From Retirement for Big Races. By the Assoctated Press. HICAGO, December 15.—Confi- | dent that their great thorough- | bred, Burning Blaze, will come | back faster than ever, the Nash brothers of Chicago have nominated him for several stake engagements next | year. Burning Blaze, one of the heaviest Winter book favorites in the 1932 Ken- | tucky Derby, was cut down a few days before the race and had to be with- | drawn. Since his retirement he has been recovering nicely. The Nash brothers, Dick and Pat, politan Handicap, Suburban Handicap | and Jockey Club Gold Cup in New York | and plan to nominate him for the series of rich stakes at Arlington Park next Summer, including the Stars and Stripes, Arlington Handicap and lington Gold Cup. “If there is an international race, bringing the champions of several coun- tries together in a World Fair special next year, Burning Blaze more than likely will be the American representa- tive if he is as good as we think he will be,” Pat Nash said. YANKEES FIND POLO TOUGH IN ARGENTINA Return With Cup of the Americas and Tales of Hard Riding in Quest of It. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, December 15.—Telling of scme of the “toughest polo we ever played in our lives” and a| “great trip,” the main body of the United States polo squad, which in- vaded South America to win the Argen- tine open polo championship and the “cup of the Americas” is back home. The party which arrived on the West- ern Prince last night included six play- ers, Elmer Boseke, Seymour Knox, Wil- liam Post, 2d; J. C. Rathborne, Stewart Iglehart and Stephen Sanford, Carleton Burke, team manager, and a group of relatives and friends who accompanied the squad. All were enthusiastic over the re- ception they received in Argentina and over the brand of polo played there. Telling how “tough” it was, ex- plained, “Down there they play seven periods of 8 minutes each with no inter- mission. The games were all close and there never was a let-up in the pace.” One for the Boo —It happened on the diamond BY CHARLIE WHITE. 'Y COBB, while playing with De- troit, and Philadelphia, Ameri- can League, a period of 24 years, played in 3,033 games, & rec- ord, that probably will stand for years. Hans Wagner, play- ing with Louisville and Pittsburgh, National League, for 21 years, played in 2,785 games. The credit of most consecutive games played, be- longs to Everett Scott, he having played 1.307 games while a member of Boston and New York American Leaguc clubs, June 20, 1916, to May 5, 1925. There is a possible chance of this record being beaten, as Lou Gehrig of the Yan- kees has to his credit 1,197 to date, which is only 110 games to tie. Joe Sewell of Cleveland had a run of 1,103 games, when he was stopped May 5, 1925. The greatest number of put-outs by a third baseman. in a game is 10, record being held by Willlam Kuehne of Pittsburgh, May 24, 1889, and William Shindle of Baltimore, September 28, 1893. The best per- formance since 1900 is nine, held by Pat Dillard, St. Lous, in 1900. The American League record is seven, made by Bill Bradley, Cleveland, 1901 and 1909; Harry Riconda, Philadelphia, in 1924, and Oss Bluege in 1927, The record e players have made four assists in a game. In 1857, the first official rule book was printed and in 1865, compiling of sverages was introduced. e, - November 18—Mississippi State (place undecided), November 35— Tulane at New Or- lgans, : For any special best-on-records or major league data, write to Charlie White, care of The Stay, addressed, stamped envelopa, DIDRIKSON BLAMES 'HOOEY' FOR PLIGHT Declares False Statements Credited to Her Brought About A. A. U. Ban. By the Associated Press. , Tex., December 15.— ALLAS, Mildred Babe Didrikson, Texas ; girl athlete, still hopes to con- | vince the National Amateur | Athletic Union she should be restored to amateur status. Her hope was based on smemenm by E. Gordon Perry, Dallas motor car dealer, and a New York advertising | agency, that the 19-year-old Olymples | star did not authorize release of a motor car advertisement which carried | her picture and a testimonial. Perry | took the responsibility. Miss Didrikson has continually ce- nied authorizing the use of her name and picture. Homer R. Mitchell, president of the insurance firm here which employs her, has asked the ad- vertising agency to furnish documentary evidence to the A. A. U. exonerating Miss Didrikson. Lawrence Di Benedetto, chairman of the Southern A. A. U Committee, said at New Orleans the committee would not take final action on the suspension until it learned phether Miss Dicrikson signed a re- ease. At Galveston, where she had accom- panied the Gold Cyclones’ basket ball | team on an exhibition tour, although disqualified from playing herself, Miss Didrikson indignantly declared that “half the trouble now” in her conflict with the A. A. U. is “the bunch of hooey that somebody is putting out about me.” Specifically she referred to a “state- ment addressed to the press which con- tained a summary of professional offers she was supposed to have received and what purportedly were her own state- | ments about the A. A. U. She de- | clared the statement was spurious. PEDEN LATEST PICK | T0 GET STAGG'S POST, Successful Foot Ball Coach at Ohio U. Now Seen in Line for Chicago Job. By the Assoclated Press. HICAGO, December 15.—Don Peden, head foot ball coach at Ohio U, has joined the ranks of probable successors to Amos Alonzo Stagg as foot ball coach at the University of Chicago. Peden, a protege of Coach Robert C. Zuppke at Illinois, was a star end and | halfback 10 years ago. Since coaching, | gi:iign has had remarkable success at | His team of 1929 swept through the season undefeated, chalking up 18 suc- cessive victories in the 1929-30 period. STAGG TELLS EXETER OF BASE BALL LOSS Hurled Game in Which Error Let Andover Triumph—Does Not Talk Foot Ball. By the Associated Press. XETER, N. H., December 15.—Dr. A, A. Stagg, the grand old man of foot ball, yesterday paid a visit to Phillips Exeter Academy. from which he was graduated in 1885 and talked at length to the student body—about base ball. Stagg was quite a pitcher for Yale 45 years ago. % “It was in the Spring of 1884” he told the students, “that I was playing shortstop on the nine. That was in the days when the faculty also played on the team. We had one of the tutors for captain and star pitcher, but a week before the Andover game (Exeter’s sn- :izm rival) he got angry and left the eam, “At that point, I was elected captain and pitcher, “I well remember how we went down to Andover and how our second base- man fumbled a grounder, which rolled to the outfield and let three runs in. Andover won, 7 to 5.” It was Stagg's first visit to the sciicol since his graduation. | GIRL SEEKS SKATE MARK |’ romored an CHICAGO, ‘December 15 (#)—Helen Bina of captain 's 1932 Olympic ice-skating ':m will at- tempt to crack the world indoor record for 1,000 meters at the Chicago sta- dium next Tuesday night. 5 l/TRADE WINDS AT STORM HEIGHT. A L QT OF TRAPS AROUND FOR.A CATCHER | AND INF T MAY A SURPRISE. WHEN GRIFE UNVEILS WS NEXT TRADING MATERIAL - AN BURKE A 2 IBLDER .. GRIFF (S A DANGEROUS MAN- RE (S LIKELY T0 BOWL NOT BE LEFT~HAND PITCHER ? Thomas ¢ o FFMAN? Z, HEN GRIFF'S S w‘zm GUNS BARKED IT X"’\ OKE UP THE A.L. MEETING Chat Prolific Up to the End Here’s the What, How and Why About Famous Diamond Figures at Pow-wow. EW YORK, December 15.—With tension more or less eased as the result of trades, base ball men are taking the final mo- ments of the snow-time meeting of the majors here with less seriousness. But, here and there, are few of the old fellows whom some one has forgot- ten, or who could not put over a prop- osition which would assure the grocery man being taken care of next Summer, For instance, this is what the fol- lowing are talking about as they mill around the lobby of the Commodore: DAN HOWLEY, late of the Reds, believes he is going to accept a Toronto offer. He managed the Leafs’ Interna- tional League club before he went into the majors at St. Louis—and took the Canadian club to the top twice. CHARLEY MOORE, new manager of the Atlanta club of the Southern Asso- ciation, believes that Robbie and Bobby Jones are going to bring in a winner. Chatley has a story for the book. He brought a team of players from Class C into Class B, then Class A to win a flag in each class loop. He capped the climax by taking the same group of g;nmy:n into Jersey City, Class AA, to the club into sixth place at the ing ¥ 'UTHWORTH, once out- Giants, is around, and it he will hook up as Bill t. [ORIARTY, the American stopped to say he is giv- talks at civic club meet- is paying the freight, Miss Bina won the wational cham- plonship Jast January &t Oconomo- oc, W < CHARLEY GRIMM, looking in top | shape, says that the Cubs will play no | exhibition games after they break camp | at_Catalina next Spring. | BUCKY HARRIS, Uncle Clark and | Joe McCarthy have been doing a neat piece of corner confabbing at various and sundry times during this econumic POW-WOW. WAITE HOYT is around wise-crack- ing and talking about his undertaking business. MARTY McMANUS, Red Sox plot, cheerful despite a not very smart out- ook for his club in 1933. Everybody has promised to do something about Boston, but has not, to date. BUCKY HARRIS comes to bat with an idea. He believes the umpires who cover the world series should be select- ed for the honor for having shown | more ability than their playmates dur- | ing the year. They are appointed in | Totation at present. Bucky suggests two | of each league's year’s best be rewarded | for excellent work. | BILLY EVANS, back again, says Wes | Ferrel will not room with Roger Peck- inpaugh this year while on the road. Ferrel does not like a roommate, says Bil. Hildebrand, a kic pitcher, Evans’ best new prospect. He says that he will be better than Wes in two years. BOB SHAWKEY, former Yank man- ager, is around, tanned from prospect- in Can: Bob manages Scran- ‘N = BRAVES BUY INFIELDERS SAN FRANCISCO, December 15 (#).— The San Francisco Mission club of the Pacific Coast League has sold Infielders Dick Gyselman and Al Wright to the Boston Braves for $60,000 plus one player. J The Missions will ‘Walters, an infielder, Gyselman is 31 years old 19. Esch throws and ‘William the Najlonal 1 1is QVER EVERY WHO SHOWS UP HERE.. CLARKK BUCKY HAVE A LOTOF PALM DATES HERE . —By TOM DOERER DETROIT SOUTHPAW HURLER WHOM UNCLE CLARK IS VERY KEEN FOR.HE PLUGS HOLE OCCU- PIED By MARBERRY. S Moguls Getting Weak on Pins Exhaustion Threatens Hotel Lobby's Standing Army as Base Ball Meeting Nears End. BY TOM DOERER. NEW YORK, December 15.—With most of base ball’s lobbymen now rest- ing on their knees, their ankles having given away under the strain of standing !'around like a large order of potted | plants awaiting delivery, only this pow- | wow's termination today will save the | stragglers from being sent home on stretchers. | It may be weeks and it may be all | winter "before some of the veterans | hanging around again will be able to walk erect. The strain of standing for days and nights, listening to gab and chatter, and, maybe for some one to the boys a lot of pain and mi isery. But the show here is worth it. It is o can NEVER TEL- WHEN & AND THEN BLOW UP, Fr-oM EXH the biggest gas explosion offered any- where, any time—and it does not cost a cent, which, figuring how things are, is the best thing about this base ball shindig. For nsour days base ball men have been milling around the.lobby of the Commodore in an endless, confused column, g, and repassing the bar- ricade of easy chairs and lounges, each marcher awaiting an opportunity to rest his weary feet by leaping into the first sitting spot available. same stories have been told and retold. Patlent listeners of the early days of this great economy meeting of the majors, no longer listen. They avoid huddles as if they were measle-intected gatherings, thus mak- ing the confusion in the lobby resemble a once great and formidable army routed. a free performance, and Sleek-trimmed gals and yon across the velvets of the Com- modore as they head for dinner dances, affairs and the various functions They have to through i Ps | B offer a luncheon invitation, has caused | stand on one foot at the same mo- ment. Those veterans who have with- stood many of these affairs either slip down in behind a potted plant in sheer exhaustion or go over in a corner and crawl under a chair when the day be- gins to wane. Younger men, not know- ing the stamina it takes to hold up for |ings, go to pieces about this time | the ‘pow-wow. | Old Mike Martin, who has been peek- ing in on these tall-hat chin wags for more years than Joe McCarthy has | hopes of repeating next season, tells me that it is not unusual, at times, for some of the inexperienced lobby stand- ers to begin to teeter on the last day, gasp, roll their eyes and then actually blow right up as a newcomer comes of OF THE BOYS IS GOWG AVSTION + -+ over to them with a story that was told on the first day of the gassing derby. HAVE not had any of the champion standers blow up on me when I asked them “what do you know?” which I have asked many of them many times, but I have had men like Dan Howley and Donie Bush take advantage of my presence and lean on my shoul- ders while they bluffed at listening to my questions. ‘Anyhow, the boys are down to their last ankle, and if this base ball &lfly is not called off early this evening a Iot of the boys who have been standing around waiting for jobs will have taken root. Which will cause the Commodcre management to use them for hat racks. But at that it seems the hotel will have put them to more use than base ball can. HINKEL PICKED AT PENK. Tem Hinkel former Central High | Pennsylvania’s foot ball team. + Huskie Sports Hit By Lack of Money IEATTLE, December 15 ‘(®)— Financial troubles threaten to three or four days at one of these meet- | | School student, has been named as- | * | sistant manager of the University of TRIBE STILL AFTER BOSS OF NATIONALS Giants, Cubs, Dodgers Eager to Deal—Broadcast Ban Not Anticipated. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 15— The annual major league meetings need only to ap- proximate today the frantic activity of the David Harums during the past 48 hours in order to establish the conclaves of 1932 as the greatest off-season trading climax in base ball his- tory. The falling arch brigade, some crippled by the endless marching, counter - marching, plain and fancy standing-around in hotel lobbies, reached wearily for chairs, but still was full of the lust for barter as the three-day conven- tion came into the home stretch. So far, counting in post-season deals, every club in the National League and five in the American not only hav traded important material, but still are eager to keep right on dealing until dragged away from here. And all in all, the wholesale juggling of the playing rosters in answer to th: demands of the faithful for new faces, has been so sensational in spots as to steal most of the thunder from the more pompous dealings of the owners in formal session. The turnover in ball players, led by the “boy managers” of the two leagues, Bill Terry and Joe Cronin, as injected new life into the aching ankles of the standing army. RONIN, with the “old fox,” Clark Griffith, master-minding at his elbow, put over two deals for the Washington Nationais. yesterday thai popped a few eyes in the lobby and ma- terially enhanced the Nationals' chances of overhauling the world champion New York Yankees next season. ‘Washington sent Sam West and Carl Reynolds, outfielders; Lloyd Brown, southpaw pitcher, and a bundle of cash along to the St. Louis Browns in ex- change for Goose Goslin, a great hitter and former favorite in the Capital; Pred Schulte, regular outfielder. and Walter Stewart, one of the finest left- handed pitchers in the league. Then, when most of the experts and managers had stowed away for the | night, the “Old Fox"” talked Bucky Harris, manager of the Detroit Tigers, into parting with his ace left-hander, Earl. Whitehill, in exchange for Fred Marberry, burly right-hand relief pitcher. Whitehill had been on the block since the start of the meetings, and his shift for Marberry, rumored during the day, was less surprising than the first transaction. Goslin, a .325 hitter, went to the Browns from Washington a couple of years ago exchange for Heinle Manush. The experts gave Washington all the better of both deals, figuring Goslin a game-busting, home-nm _hitting _star and Stewart and Whitehill the types of pitchers who beat the first division clubs consistently. On hitting and pitching records, the deal with St. Louls figured even-up. ECOND in importance was the Bos- ton Braves' deal with the San Francisco Missions for two young infleld prospects—Albert Wright, second baseman, and Dick Gyselman, third baseman—for $60,000 and Bill Walters, a third-sacker. Cincinnati bought Clarence Blair, former Cub infielder, from Los Angeles and Irving Plummer, an _outfielder, from Wilkes-Barre. ' Brooklyn pur- sed Linus Fry, 19-year-old short- stop, from Nashville for 1934 delivery, sending Earl Mattingly, right-hand pitcher, along as payment. Not content with deals that shipped Preddy Lindstrom to Pittsburgh and Chick Fullis to Philadelphia in ex- chinge for Glenn Spencer and George Davis; bundled Pitcher Sam Gibson off to the Coast with cash in exchange for Htcgcr Bill gll'nl;:res. and before the meetings sent Walker, Jim Mooney, Bob O'Farrell and Ethan Allen to St. Louis for Rey Starr and ‘Gus Mancuso, er Terry of the Giants completed one more yesterday and offered half a dozen. He took Shortstop John (Blondic) Ryan from Buffalo in exchange for In- fielder Eddie Marshall and cash. He wants to trade Catcher Shanty Hogan to Bosten; Second Baseman Hughey Critz to Philadelphia and Substitute First Baseman Sam Leslie to Brooklyn. Charlie Grimm still is searching for a left-handed pitcher and may do busi- ness with the Braves for Ed Brandt, having filled one great need with a slugging left-handed outfielder, Babe Herman. gathered in from the Cincin- nati Reds before the meetings in ex- change for cash and four players. ROOKLYN needs a first baseman and may turn to Joe Judge of ‘Washington, who is trying to make a trade for himself. Counting the Chicago White Sox $100,000 purchase of Al Simmons, Jimmy Dykes and Mule Haas from Philadelphia, only three clubs, all in the American League, have not traded since the season closed. Of these Cleve- land wants First Baseman Harley Boss from Washington. Only the Yankees and the Red Sox, extremes of the American League, have done no business, plan none and suffer in_common, but for oppcsite reasons. The YaMks already have so much | that rivals fear to strengthen them. The Red Sox have so little no one seems interested. The magnates, for their part, came down to the closing joint meeting today with little or nothing of major im- portance left on the calendar for defi- nite decision. There was the question of broad- casting r league games, & sore spot in several cities, where owners contend that rival clubs in adjacent territory are reaching out through the air to stéal home town fans, but there was no possibility of joint action. The National League is split, 5 to 3, on the question, and the American, 4 to 4. Unanimous opinion in both leagues is necessary either to aporove or bar broadcasting in the joint meeting. Unanimous approval in the separate meetings of the two major leagues during the past two days of the mo- tion to advance from June 15 to May 15 the date for rosters to the 23-player limit forecast approval of the measure without argument in mt session. tions before the joint session are American League’s sug- gestion that the clubs engaged in the world series be allowed to determine whether they wish to sell series tickets singly or in~blocks; routine amend- ments to rules, and general discussion problems, l of other known only to the magnates. < l