Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1933, Page 17

CRONIN SWITCHES * PTCHING ROUTINE Stewart Saved for Series at St. Louis—Pressure 0ff, Swamp Sox. BY JOHN B. KELLER. HICAGO, August 18.—Hav- ‘ ing clinched the starting series — that with the White Sox—of this final swing of the season through the West, the Nationals are tighten- ing for the next tussle, a three- game affair with the Browns scheduled to open tomorrow in St. Louis. Ordinarily, a series with the Browns would be regarded as something to be taken in stride by the Capital clubmen. | ‘This time, however, some torrid tilting in Sportsmen’s Park is anticipated. A club strong enough to manhandle the Yankees as Rog Hornsby's has merits serious consideration, the Nationals feel. It has been very nice of the Browns to assist in boosting the Nationals’ league lead by two games in as many days. With the string of successes scored over the White Sox here, while the Hornsby horde was dusting off the New Yorks, the Washingtons now enjoy seven and one-half games’ advantage over their main rivals in the chase for the championship But the Nationals expect no such splendid co-operation in their pennant quest while they are guests of the Browns. Instead, they look for trouble aplenty. The Browns in every way ap- pear to be hot these days. ‘Those three games in St. Louis are likely to be trying tests for the Wash- ington wonders. Cronin Saves Stewart. ANAGER JOE CRONIN looks for so much fight in the St. Louis series that he plans to disrupt the rotation of his starting pitchers he had intended to carry through this Western swing. Holding to his original program, Cronin would have used for the final fling at the White Sox the left-handed Walter Stewart. Instead, he will hold this hurler for a shot at the Browns tomorrow. For the double-header to be played in Sportsmen’s Park Sun- day—they are moving up the game first set for Monday to make a synthetic twin bill—the boy manager will send to the fir- ing line his two aces, Al Crowder and Earl Whitehill. By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. | HICAGO, August 18.—Clark Griffith will run into St. Louis and an argument tomorrow. The Washington club president, moving to the next stop of the tour with the Nationals, will encounter an irate lot of officials of the Browns de- manding that he come across on the Sam Gray deal he side-tracked yester- day shortly after it was supposed to have been closed. Hardly had Griffith announced he had bought the veteran right-hander for use as a relief hurler with the Na- tionals than he learned Gray was suf- {fering with a sore arm. During the dickering with the Browns’ officials the | pitcher’s defect had not been revealed, | Griffith declared, so he promptly in- 'Ifgmed the St. Louis club the deal was off. 1t is off only so far as Griffith is concerned, it seems. For L. C. McEvoy, the Browns' vice presi- dent and son-in-law of Phil de Catesby Ball, president of the club, when Informed of Grif- fith's cancellation, sent the Wash- ington chieftain a hot wire in- sisting the deal had béen nego- tiated in good faith and that Griffith would have to go through with it. Griffith will argue it out with Mec- Evoy and the rest of the St. Louis {crowd tomorrow. In the meantime, | the Washington prexy insists he acted | within his rights in canceling the pur- | chase and that he feels certain he would ! be backed by Judge Landis, should the |case get up to the base ball commis- | sioner. | i Ier the pitcher's arm ailment came. After the deal had been effected by wire and the hurler ordered to report here today, Manager Cronin got Gray jcn the telephone. The pitcher ex- pressed himself as being highly grati- | fied over the transfer, but added that he would not be available for service for some time as his arm had troubled him a great deal recently. Cronin T was directly from Gray that word Stars Yesterday By the Assoclated Press. Earl Averill, Indians—Walloped home run, triple, double and single against Athletics. Gus Mancuso. Giants—Knocked in| three runs against Reds with three sin- | Again, Cronin deviates from his orig- inal pitching plans in picking these | stars for the Sabbath set-tos. He had stated he would preserve the rotation | of the regular starters by the selection | of Bobby Burke or Jack Russell for | service in one of the games of the two- | part sketch. | The manager explains the change by | saying he considers there is too much st stake to attempt to work off his | lightweight slabmen on the Browns. He regards the St. Louis club a better battling aggregation since Hornsby | assumed the managerial reins and Joe proposes to chuck his best at them. . Game is Play for a Change. ‘A~WRONIN makes it plain thgt he wants to settle this pennant ques- tion without delay. Against the last-place team, the league leaders, ac- cording to his revised plans, will pre- sent their finest front. To make this possible, Cronin was prepared to gamble with his pitching in the final fray with the White Sor today. Al Thomas. no longer rated a first-string siarter with the Nationals, was to take @ turn against his old club. Per= haps after the way the Nationals mauled the Chicagoans yesterday, though, Cronin didn’t feel he was making a gamble. The home side was a 14-to-1 pushover in the shird game of the series here and was not expected to tote much temper into the wind-up. For the first time in weeks, the Na- tionals yesterday went through a game in which they were not on edge much of the way. They stepped out in the first frame to take a commanding lead and thereafter the affair was nothing more than a romp for them. They played under absolutely no pressure to enjoy their greatest scoring orgy since late in June when they smothered the Indians under 15 runs. Polish Off Hoodoo. O make their victory all the sweet- i I er, they gleaned it off the pitch- ing of the left-handed Walter Miller, who had defeated them three times in four previous starts. Twice he had blanked them, once limiting them to two hits, then to three. With four hits and a walk yesterday, though, the Nationals had Miller off the hill a de- feated pitcher before the first inning ended. He was charged with all five runs made by the Cronin crew in the | opening round. After that the Nationals went on to increase their total to 14, dishing up punishment to Chad Kimsey, the rookie Harold Haid and that venerable spit- baller, Red Faber. Monte Weaver made a fine job of his flinging for the Nationals. Turning in his third successive victory since com- ing back to the slab after a long lay-off, the professor yielded just four singles and three walks. The Chisox averted a shutout when they filled the bases with none out in the fourth session. After that they got nothing off Weaver other than a pass in the eighth inning. It was a great day all around for the lJeague-leading band. Open Throttle WASHINGTON. Myer. Manush; Cronin, [ e ool o cossoes mcccrnop | omconcsncup Lonmb cSisoms. 1 0 Datted (3);, Kuhel &), uege, Bers (3 er (2 yne. _Two- B e Kunel, - Schuite’ (3. Sewell Weaver. Three-base hit—Kuhel. Home run —Berg. Stolen bases—Myer. Kuhel, Bluege. ifice—Sewell. Double plays—Cronin to Myer to Kuhel, Appling to Rhyne to Kress (2). Dykes to Kress, Haas to Appling to Rhyne. Left o eago, b. First base on balls—Off ' Weaver. 3; oft Miller, 1; off Haid, 5: ber. 1. Struck out—By Weaver. 1: by Kimsey. 1: by Haid, 2. Hits—Of 0—14 00— 1 Runs batted gles | Monte Weaver, Senators — Limited | White Sox to four hits. | Joe Medwick, Cardinals—Hit two| homers and single against Phillies. Rogers Hornsby, Browns—Tied score against Yankees with pinch homer in ninth. | Bob Weiland, Red Sox—Held Tigers to five hits for 6-2 victory. ! Griffith Faces Row Over Gray , Deal Cancellation—Schulte Out || ™% Tz Of Slump—Manush Carries On learned that Gray’s limb had ailed to such an extent that the Browns had not even carried him along on their recent trip to Cleveland. ‘When the manager conveyed this in- formation to his boss, the latter im- mediately sent the canceling wire to the St. Louis officials. It may be that Gray will join the Nationals after all, however. The pitcher himself got in tele- phonic communication with Grif- fith late yesterday to say that he might be in good enough shape to take up relief pitching within two or three days. So Grifith when he gets to St. Louis will have a confab with Gray and with the surgeon who has been treating the pitcher's arm as well as the St. Louis officials. If convincing proof that the pitcher will soon be ready for use is forth- coming, Gray probably will be with the Nationals when they leave St. Louis Sunday night for their mnext stop, Detroit. If not there' likely be another case for Judge Landis to settle. The Nationals claimed Gray by the waiver route, although they will pay more than the waiver price for him if he is procured. Being in the lead, the Washington club was in the least favor- able position to have a claim considered. That its claim was recognized meant that all other clubs had passed up Gray. That left the Browns free to dicker with the Nationals for a price on the pitcher. “It seemed a waste of money to pick up Gray,” Griffith said this morning. “The way our pitchers are going we don't appear to need any more. But I wanted to pro- tect the staff as much as pos- sible. “Gray no longer may be regarded a starter, but he’s a heady hurler with an abundance of stuff he can feed the batters for two or three innings at most, I'd say. He would have been handy to have around in the event a pitcher broke down. “We may get him yet.” ANUSH got a single in the fourth inning yesterday to lengthen his string of consecutive games with hits to 24 . . . Schulte snapped out of a batting slump to get two doubles and a single in four times up . . . He scored four runs and drove across hree . . Kuhel helped himself to a single, double and triple and sent over four tallies . Moe Berg got one hit and drove across three . . . the hit was a home run, his second of the season, driven into the lower left field stand, while Haid was pitch- ing in the sixth inning . . . Moe crashed the game after Luke Sewell was hit on the left forearm by one of Chal Kimsey's pitches in the third round . . . Luke was not severely hurt and was to be behind the bat again today . . . in addition to pitching a fine game ‘Weaver got a double that scored two runners . . . the Nationals' victory was their ninth straight. making their string equal to the season record for the circuit set by the Yankees last month. J. B. K. AND YoU'Lt AGREE -THAT OUR AITTERS AHAVE -THE (DEA,TOO | RACTICALLY COASTING [N1o_ TOWN WITH R. CLARK C. GRIFFITH, the gray ranger and Sen- ators’ chieftain, is wag- ging_a grayish eyebrow toward the International League. Mr. Griffith is wondering what is going on in that loop. And if 3 there is enough important taking })lace he would like to loosen up his sheckel bag to the extent of buying his way into the double-A outfit. Uncle will wag another eyebrow in this direction and deny the accusation. But Uncle is likely to deny most any- thing when its publication does not happen to suit him. And comment on the pretty well founded rumor that he is trying to sell his Chattanooga base ball club in the Southern Association to buy, in turn, Albany of the International loop, will not be welcomed by him at this time. Uncle likes his deals under lock and a pair of keys before he grows frank with the newspaper men. Which makes him as much like everybody else as twin peas in a pod. ‘While Griff has nabbed a bunt- ing in the Southern Association with his Lookouts, drawn fairly good crowds and has gotten a lot of ball players and publicity with the club, it has not paid him very heavy dividends. There is little doubt that it would be good business for Uncle in trans- ferring his Engel canaries, pink tea rooms for sports writers, and the whole gaboot of Engel ballyhoo into the Inter- national League, where it would find broader reception. I have often thought that Mr. Engel was wasting his talent in the brambles. He not only ought to put plenty of life into the International League if Uncle Albany, but he would be no small squash in the majors. HILE Griffith disagrees with the v‘/ plan of too much ballyhoo and toe little base ball sense in the majors, I am sure that he would agree to the kind of comic business that Joe produces because it brings in customers. Uncle would attend to the serious base Homer Standing By the Assoclated Press. Home runs yesterday—Medwick, Car- dinals, 2; Ruth, Yankees, 1; Klein, Phillies, 1; Collins, Cardinals, 1; Cis- sell, Indians, 1; Averill, Indians, 1; Berg, Senators, 1; Dickey, Yankees, 1; Hemsley, Browns, 1; Hornsby, Browns, The lcaders—Foxx, Athletics, 35 Ruth, Yankees, 27; Berger, Braves, 20; Gehrig, Yankees, 20; Klein. Phillies. 20. National. New York . 9 Chicago . Brooklyn Philadelphia Boston .. St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh American. Philadelphia . 1 off Kimsey, 7 Buth); of Hald, 4 Fipeey - (Sowelly. Lo M . Kolls, Moriarty Gei- e % Soure a5 7 Minstes. Chicago .. Total. . eees..471 Total B buys and puts him in the chair at| Back Stage in Sports Griffith Would Like to Sell Chattanooga Club and Buy Albany, Transplant Engel. BY TOM DOERER. ball business, you can wager, while Joe | would be around beating the drums in the papers for Albany. | But uncle’s buying his way into the | proposition which Joe Cambria, pres- ent incumbent, finds topheavy for him, may depend, of course, on his sale of the Chattanooga enterprise. And selling base ball clubs in the South is & major proposition despite rise in cotton. Southern gentle- ern purchasers may find it hard to give the necessary local touch to a Dixie ball club. In the meanwhile, so I learn. Uncle has jound time to be of some service to Albany, and the latter has been of heip to him. There has been some business going on Dbetween them, and Uncle has had ample time to know just how much’ of a farm it would make for him. Frank Ragland, the pitcher who be- longs to Uncle Griff, has been sent to the Philadelphia Nationals on trial from Albany. If Frank makes good, says a tip from Philadelphia, the money goes farther South than Albany. But as_wire stories said. Uncle, disliking the farm system, finds he has to trek along with the big thought or find himself alone. And being dragged in he probably is plan- ning to give his Nationals a little more dignity, now that they are pennant hopes, by b g their culture dig- gings into a higher base ball classifica- tion. / The proposition may fall through and Uncle will scoff off this sale rumor as boys handle information. But you can | wager your series money that Uncle is trying to sell Chattanooga to buy into Albany—if he has not already put through the latter move. the | men are not as keen to enter the pastime as they once were, and North- | Frank was not purchased from Albany | an example of how loosely the press Griffs’ Records BATTING. . AB. R. H. 2b. 3b. HR.Rbi.Pct. 3 61 ice: st uege. 101 Thomas. 29 Bolton. " 14 | Whiten'] 130 Sewell. 10% Berg... 27 Kerr. We: Crowder 38 | Russell . 38 25 1 R Bl | Stewart | Chapman CLUB BATTING. AB. R H.__2b. 3b HR. Rbl 112 4,033 630 1,187 103 68 48 506 PITCHING. Pet. 294 | G Burke... | Crowder | Whiten'l | Stewart Weaver Russell Thomas 29 131 Chapman 1 4 071 2 McAfee won 3. lost 2; Linke released. Minor Leagues International. Pochester, 5-5; Jersey City, 4-0. Albany, 8: Montreal, 3. | Newark 2; Toronto, 2. (Tie, called |account of darkness.) | Buffalo, 9; Baltimore, 3 Southern Association. Chattanooga, 5; Nashville, 3. Birmingham-New Orleans, rain. Memphis-Knoxville, wet grounds. Little Rock-Atlanta, wet grounds. American Association. St. Paul, 13; Indianapolis, 5. Louisville, 3; Minneapolis, 5. Columbus, 9-2; Milwaukee, 6-6. Toledo, 3-8; Kansas City, 0-10. Pacific Coast. Seattle, 5; Missions, 3. San Prancisco, 3; Oakland, 2. Portland, 8; Hollywood, 2. Sacramento, 4; Los Angeles, 3. ‘Texas. Houston, 5; Galveston, 1. Dallas, 13; Fort Worth, 4. | Beaumont, 1; Tulsa, 0. | Oklahoma City, 5; San Antonio, 2. | New York-Pennsylvania. | Williamsport, 13; Binghamton, 5 Reading, 9-7; Elmira, 5-3. Harrisburg, 9; Wilkes-Barre, 3. Scranton, 2-5; York, 1-6. By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, August 18.—Unless the aging Babe Ruth (base ball speaking) feels as if he can play the eptire season next year, the New York Yankee management needn’t worry about compensating him for all the 154 games. This the great home-run slugger revealed while here with the Yankees for their series with the St. Louis Browns. Asked if his layoff during the first part of the series was any indica- tion that he planned to retire in 1934, the Babe replied: “I can’t answer that, because I don’t know. But one thing is cer- tain—Pm not going to sign a con- Ruth Admits He Is Slipping Won’t Demand Full Pay in 1934 Unless He Can Play Regularly, Says Babe. tract for next year unless I feel that I can play the full season. It would not be fair to the owners to sign for a full year and then play only a third of the season.” After appearing only as a pinch- hitter during the first two games of the Yankee-Brown series, Ruth re- turned to the line-up yesterday and hammered out his twenty-seventh home run of the season. Only Jimmy Foxx of the Athletics has done bet- ter during the current race. The veteran thought the two-day layoff would do him some good, as he had been in a batting slump re- cently. Ruth's contract has been one of the big worries of the Yankee man- agement. After each playing agree- ment_has expired several weeks are usually required before the two - ties have been able to come to terms, THE GROCERIES - “ |LL SAoLT PENNANTS ONLY WHEN WE'RE 10 GAMES OUT IAN FRONT - SAYS PRES. CLARK GRIFEITHA ... .. 5 JAxT Brpretey N Strongest Blast —By TOM DOERER UACGLE GRIFF AEADED FOR. AHE WEST WHEN THE SERIES REQUESTS BEGAN O ARRINE ...« AT scome ZTiLL ONTHE ron, THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RI WHERE THE WEST BEGINS. (With Full Apologies.) Where Helen Wills Moody is at her height, And Helen Jacobs is in the fight— That's Schere the West Where Vines is waiting And Lester Stoeflen is That's where the West begins. another shot, on the lot— begins. Where Cicil Smith leads a killing ride, Hell for leather at Hitchcock’s stride— That’s where the West begins. Where Howard Jones holds the Trojan sway, And a Washington crew has the right of way, Yes, I could keep this up all day, Out where the West begins. The Western Challenge. N sporting festivities now at hand and in those to come, the challenge of the Far West is something for the massed millions of the Midwest, 3 | East and South to reckon with. The first shock came when the hard- riding and hard-hitting Cecil Smith of Texas played the leading role in beating back Tommy Hitchcock’s crack Eastern | four in Chicago last Sunday. The women’s national tennis cham- pionship is on at Forest Hills. The de- fending champion is Helen Jacobs—of California. The probable winner is Mrs. Helen Wills Moody—of California. A short while later on the men’s tennis championship breaks out and among the leaders you will find Ellsworth Vines and Lester Stoeffen—also of California. They have something to beat in Perry| of England, Crawford of Australia and Sidney Wood of New York—but at least California will be in the middle of the scrap. EXT WEEK Howard Jones is bringing his all-star Far Western | foot ball collection to Chicago to| meet Dick Hanley’s Eastern-Midwestern squad in another intersectional scrim-| mage that will attract its share of | interest. Jones has Smith and Brown, his two famous Trojan tackles, on kand, and that alone means a foot ball ttam. At the same time it might be whispered that U. S. C. and Stan- ford are labelled for two of the t teams of the year when the national Autumn rash breaks out a few weeks later. Some one also might interject that Max Baer of California is the only heavyweight defender now left in this broad land to meet the foreign threat. In golf, Scotty Campbell, Frank Dolp, | Charlie Seaver and Chandler Egan are | among those who expect to make con- siderable headway at Cincinnati in the | forthcoming United States amateur. To| say nothing of Gus Moreland from ‘Texas. There are those who might in- clude Johnny Goodman in this list. Except for the fact that along in the Sierra country they figure Omaha is back East or thereabouts. These next few weeks are going to be replete with intersectional rivalry of every known type—where the East, the South and the Midwest have their share of trouble cut out before they can roll back this Far Western tidal wave. The Intersectional Debate. HAT have the East, the Midwest W and the South to offer a this Far Western challenge, from Texas up through Oregon and ‘Washington? Dick Hanley expects to have a foot ball squad strong enough to give the Jones delegation an even fight. There is nothing in the East to stop Helen Wills Moody, but Wood or Shields might get further than a short jump at Forest Hills. In the women’s golf championship two of the favorites will be Helen Hicks and Virginia Van Wie, Eastern .stars, and another will be Lucille Robinson of the Middle West. ‘The odds be heavy againgt the Far West in amateur golf cham< pionship with Goodman, Moreland, PFischer, Dunlap and a long list of others to face. In this respect the Far West has been well back of several other sections. With all the golf played along the West Coast, no amateur champion has appeared from the Pacific’s rim. ‘The West Coast has had such fine golfers as Doc Willing, Don Moe, Charlie Seaver and Frank Dolp, but no title holder. George von Elm spent much of his time in Los Angeles, but he started from Utah and also spent | no small part of his time in Detroit when he was an amateur star. This same turn also has applied to professional golf. Sarazen, Hagen and most of the leaders come from the East or Middle West. Olin Dutra has been the big shot of California golf and Olin had his P. G. A. bonnet knocked off last week. (Copyright, 1933, by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) FRIDAY. AUGUST 18, AMERICAN YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Yashington. 14: Chicaso. 1 . Louis, ew York, 6 ( ings). Elevetang, 15: Philegeiphia. g, ines) Boston, 6; Detroit. 2. By the Associated Press. (Including yesterday's games.) American League. Batting—Foxx. Athletics, .359; Sim- mons, White Sox, .352. Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, Athletics, 95. Runs batted in—Foxx, Athletics, 123 Simmons, White Sox, 102 Hi‘s—Simmons. White Sox, 164; Ma- nush, Senators, 162, 98; Doubles—Burns, Browns, 38; Appling, | ‘White Sox, and Averill, Indians, 34. Triples—Combs, Yankees, 13; Myer, Senators; Averill, Indians, and Reynolds, Browns, 12. Home runs—Foxx, Athletics, 35; Ruth, Yankees, 27. ‘Walker, Tigers, 20; 19 ve. Athletics, Whitehill, Senators, 16-6. National League. Batting—Klein, Phillies, Giants, .34 Runs — 18-6; 372; Te Cardinals, 91; P. —Klein, Phillies, 98; Hits—Klein, Phillies, 1645 Fullis, Phil- lies, 154. Doubles—Klein, Phillies, 36; Medwick, Cardinals, and P. Waner, Pirates, 32, Triples—Vaughan, Pirates, 16; Waner, Pirates. 12. Home runs—Berger, Braves, and Klein, Phillies, 20. Stolen bases—Martin, Cardinals, 16; Frisch, Cardinals, 13. Pitching—Cantwell, Braves, 16-7; Tin- ning, Cubs, 9-4. tin, , T4, P. 1933. NATIONAL YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New_ York. 7;_Cincinnatl, §. St. Louls. '9: Philadel i3 Piitsburgh-Brookly Chicago-Boston, a0 BuTgSeMm | TUNI0K MoN “erqaepeldg puvasio| B 089 u0019g |# 2 *23mu2019g GAMES TOMORROW. Wash._at Chicago. Wash. cas Wash. at st. L New York at St. Phila. at Detroit. Boston at Clevel GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW. Cincin. at New York. Pitts. at Boston. St. Louis at Phila. Chicago at N. Y. Others not scheduled. St. L. at Brooklyn. Cincin. at_Phil Special BEER Needs no persuasion to enjoy its delightful ¥ ) Other Scheidt Brews—Ram’s Head Pale flavor. S Ale, Dark Beer and Porter VALLEY FORGE DISTRIBUTING CO. st. §. Agional BEHRIG SETS MARK NATIONALS TIE ONE 'Plays 1,308th Game in Row as League Leaders Win Ninth Straight. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. HILE the New York &;\/ Yankees were finding that Lou Gehrig’s brand- new major league en- durance record, established yes- terday when “Buster Lou” played his 1,308th consecutive game with a minimum of ceremony, was about the only bright spot they have seen on their current West- ern trip, Washington Senators were equaling a record of sorts and at the same time learning that Monte Weaver can be of great assistance to them in their pennant drive, Weaver, who wak rendered inactive during the part of the season by a hicago White Sox to win his third back into It was the nators, equal- er before Lou eague and Babe he end of his ng his twenty- broke in | Ruti in the o home with put_the behind cup from League ried his_unbroken d when he “walloped an and three d Weaver's plastering out George Earn- ers who followed 1. 15 to 4. The e possession the Boston Detroit. improved nal League, m Cincinnati by th kept their e he Giants five runs in _the it easy for Bud off five double Pittsburgh Pirates cago Cubs were | spect lead | “Bosto caneers, cnabled the St. n a tie for fourth b . 9 to 5, un swatting. » homers and the Cards whila i with his twen- E un outburst the game on ice for Chuck K tieth of the sea LEGAL LEAGUE AGAIN | IS CLAIMING DODGERS | P Ebbets Heirs Demand Comrt Ac- counting of Brooklyn Club's Finances. | By the Ascociated Press EW YORK, August 18.—The af« fairs of the Brooklyn National { League Base Ball Club, a sourca of many and complicated disputes among the owners of the franchise since the death of Charles H. Ebbets, in 1925, again have been brought into the courts. The Ebbets’ heirs yesterday obtained an order from Surrogate George Win< gate compelling the executors of the Ebbets estate and the directors of the ball club to show cause why they should not be examined concerning various affairs of the club, notably ity purchases of minor league properties. The petitioners, Charles H. Ebbets, Mrs. Anna Marie Ebbets Booth, Gene+ vive M. Booth and PFrank H. Booth, stated the club has lost $30,000 in the operation of minor league clubs, & policy which was opposed by Mr. Eb= bets when he lived. They also said the value of the estate has declined from $1,066.814 in 1930 to $839,468 at pres- ent. And they asked the details of a $200,000 loan made to the club by the Brooklyn Trust Co., which is listed among the executors of the Ebbets | estate. ‘Western. Bartlesville, 8; St. Joseph, 3. Muskogee, 8; Topeka, 4. Joplin, 4; Des Moines, 0. » springfield, 5; Omaha, 4. Mon. 2 I P{.-slg. dug. D. C. A. A. U. 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