MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MED FORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1932.
Wholesale Player Swapping Marks Meet of Major League Moguls
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DEMAND OF FANS
FOR NEW FACES
BIGS SHAKEUP
All National League Clubs
and Five American Traded
Important Talent So Far
in Heavy Player Turnover
By EDWARD J. NEIL
Associated Freu 8 porta Writer
NEW YORK, Dec. 18. (AP) The
annual major league meetings need
only to approximate today the fran
tic activity of the David Haruma dur
ing the paat 46 hour In order to
eatablleh ths eouclavea of 1939 aa the
greatest off -season trading climax In
baaeball history.
The falling arch brigade, some of
them crippled by the endleas march
ing, counter-marching, plain and
fancy standing around la hotel lob
bies, reached wearily for chairs, but
still was lull of the lust for barter
m tfte three-day convention came
Into the home stretch.
Most Clubs In Deal
Bo far, counting in post-season
deals, every club In the National
league and five In the American not
only have traded Important material
but are still eager to keep right on
dealing until dragged away from
here.
And all la all, the wholesale Jug
gling of the playing rosters in an
swer to the demanda of the faithful
for new faces, has been so sensa
tional In spots aa to steal most of
the thunder from the more pompous
dealings of the owners in formal
sessions.
The turnover In ball players, led
by the "boy managers" of the two
leagues, BUI Terry and Joe Oronln,
has Injected new life Into the ach
ing ankles of ' the standing army.
Cronln Heavy Dealer
Oronln, with the "Old Pox," Clark
Orlfflth, masquerading at his elbow,
put over two deals for the Washing
ton Senators yesterday that popped
s few eyes In the lobby and mate
rially enhanced the Senators' chances
of overhauling the world champion
New York Yankees next season.
Washington sent Sam West and
Gary Reynolds, outfielders; Lloyd
Brown, southpaw pitcher, and a bun
dle of cash along to the St. Louis
Browns In exchange for Goose Oos
lln, a great hitter and former favor
ite In the capital; Fred Schulte, reg
ular outfielder; and Walter Stewart,
one of the finest left-handed pitch
ers In the league.
Whltehlll Traded
Then, when most of the experts
and managers had stowed away for
the night, the "Old Fox" talked
Buoky Harris, manager of the De
troit Tigers, into parting with his
ace left hander, Earl WhltehUl, In
exchange for Fred ("Flrpo") Mar
berry, burly right hand relief
pitcher.
Second In importance was the Bos
ton Braves 'deal with the San Fran
cisco Missions for two young infield
prospects, Albert Wright, second
baseman, and Dick Qyselman, third
baseman, for 160,000 and BUI Wal
ters, a third sacker.
Cincinnati bought Clarence Blair,
former Cub In fielder, from Los An
geles, and Irving Plummer, an out
fielder, from Wllkes-Barre. Brook
lyn purchased Linus Fry, 19-year-old
shortstop from Nashville for 1934
delivery, sending Earl Mattlngly,
right hand pitcher, along as pay
ment. Offered More Deals
Not content with deals that ship
ped Freddy Llndstrom to Pittsburgh
and Chuck Full is to Philadelphia In
exchange for Glenn Spencer and
Oeorge Davis; bundled Pitcher Sam
Gibson off to the coast witn cash In
exchange for Bill Shores; and be
fore tb meetings, sent Bill Walker,
Jim Mooney, Bob O'Farrell and Ethan
Allen to St. Louis for Ray Starr and
Ons Mancuso. Manager Terry of the
Giants completed one more yesterday
and offered half a dewen.
He took Shortstop John (Blondle)
Ryan from Bufralo In exohange for
Inflelder Eddie Marshall and cash.
Re wants to trade Catcher Shanty
Rogan to Boston; Second Baseman
Bughey Crlta to Philadelphia, and
substitute First Baseman 8am Leslie
to Brooklyn.
Charlie Grimm Is still searching for
a left .handed pitcher and may do
business with the Braves for Ed
Brandt, having filled one great need
with a slugging left handed out
fielder, Babe Herman, gathered In
from the Cincinnati Reda before the
meetings In exchange for cash and
four players.
Brooklyn After Judge !
Brooklyn needs a first bane man
and may turn to Joe Judge of Wash
ington, who Is trying to make a trade
for himself.
Counting the White Sox 1100.000
purchase of Al Simmons. Jtmmy
Dykes and Mule Haas from Philadel
phia, only three clubs, all in the
American league, have not traded
since the season closed. Of these
Cleveland wants First Baseman Hur
ley Boss from Washington,
SPOTLIGHT
ON SPORTS
There were no casualties In the
"civil war" between Bout hern
Oregon Normal school and Med
ford high school athletic burons
this week, but the stage Is all set
for considerable unpleasantness
over (he question of the Normal's
bringing big football and basket
ball games to Med ford.
The high school officials here nat
urally look upon Med ford as their
"hunting grounds" and resent any
competition for gate receipts. It is
up to them to make football and
basketball pay and the more games
Normal plays here the more athletic
dollars It will drain from the high
schools coffers.
On the Normal side there Is some
thing to be said, also. Ashland does
not support athlutlcs with the avidity
that the slightly sports-mad Medford
does. It Is that kind of town. So
when an aut standing attraction comes
along, like the University of Oregon
Normal school basketball game Mon
day night, they naturally want to
stage It where the box-offloe appeal
Is gnsater which Is In Medford.
In basketball, of course, there Is
always the Armory where Normal can
play, but in football there !a only one
football field, and It Is up to Coach
Hobson of the Normal to keep In the
good graces of the high school here
In order to apt the use of the field
So far the relations have been ami
able between the two schools, but
there are plenty of chances for fric
tion. Medford fans want to see big
football and basketball games, and
tf they are not played here, will go
to Ashland to see them. Witness the
large Medford turnout at the Chlco
Ashland Normal game Armistice day.
The only way to avoid clashes
over games would be for Hobson
to schedule them far enough
ahead, rather than wait until a
few dnys beforehand, and then
find the local high schnl au
thorities peeved for being rushed-Into
something.
The Oregon-Ash land Normal game
probably won't be played here Mon
day, because of the hard feelings now
exlatant, Medford high plays two
games with a pick-up Oregon team
Tuesday and Thursday, and feels the
gate receipts would be a flop If the
varsity drew out the fans Monday
night. Most of those who would go
tf It were played here will go down
to Ashland, anyway, so the high
school might be ahead by letting
Hobson and Relnh art's teams use
their floor (price 2B).
PORTLAND, Ore., Deo. 15. AP)
Casey Kassanjlan, SOS pounds, former
Stanford star athlete and Okl Shl
klna, 310, Japan, wrestled to a draw
last night in one of the cleanest,
cleverest and most scientific bouts
seen here In some time. Kazan J lan
took his fall with a hammer throw
In the second round. Shlklna used
a wlnglock and Japanese arm roll to
even the match In the fourth round.
Abe Kaplan, 918 pounds, Portland,
defeated Charles Santen, 311, Kirks
vllle. Mo., two out of three falls In
a rough bout.
Spike Ashby, 148 pounds, Flint,
Mich., and Tuffy Davis, 148 pounds,
Portland, staged a wild free-for-all
In the preliminary, Ashby winning
when Davis, In attempting to give hla
opponent an airplane spin, topplod
over backwards pinning himself.
Leaking toots repared. For roof
work of any kind call 639.
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TIP IS SMALL FACTOR IN
OUTCOME OF BASKETBALL
There'll be music In the air Sun
day. It will not be Christmas music,
nor radio auditions, but Sousa
marches and Jazz numbers to put
heart Into faltering golfers at the
local country club links.
The ' muslo will be a feature of
Sunday's fat turkey tournament, the
final one of the year for golfers of
southern Oregon and northern Cali
fornia. Invitations were being mailed out
yesterday by A. P. Johnson, chair
man of the tournament committee, I
Inviting club wleldera from far and
near to compete for the 13 birds put
up for the lowest dozen net scores
In the handicap play.
By means of a loudspoakcr, the
music for the day will be broadcast
loud enough to be heard over all 18
holes, Johnsen promises. At 3 o'clock
lunch will bie feiTed nl the club
house for all members and outsiders
participating In the year's divot ting
finale.
Sixty-eight men braved the gale
that graced the last turkey tourna
ment, so with the cold weather spell
broken a larger crowd Is expected out
to compete for the birds.
Due to the frozen ground and
close-cropped grass, some record
breaking drives are expected from
the players. In addition to the mu
sic and food, a program of impromp
tu entertainment Is being signed up
by Mr. Jcftnsen on the afternoon's
bill.
CHICAOO, Dee. 15. (AP) Al
though there are certain advantages
to the team which controls the tip,
Its elimination la basketball would
have little Influence In the final out
come of the game, a survey of high
school and college contests In Okla
homa, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and
Kansas indicates.
The survey was conducted by the
college basketball coaches' association
reaserch department md the results
explained In the December Issue of
the Atlantic. Journal by Coach John
W. Bunn of Stanford university.
Salient points of the survey were:
That aggressiveness is a greater
factor In determining possession of
the ball after the tip.
That the elimination of the tip or
jump at center has little Influence
on the outcome of the games.
That the elimination of the tip
speeds up the game. In one case, a
game was played In five minutes less
time.
Thst elimination of the tip does
not change the relative time that
each team has possession of the ball
and that roughness at the tip-off Is
directly In relation to roughness In
other departments, of the game,
That there are too many unneces
sarily held balls called during the
game. This Is a criticism of the officials.
OREGON FOOTBALL
NEW ORLKANS, Dec. 15. W) Two
of the Pacific coast's outstanding
football teams arrived here Wednes
day on long Jaunts In quest of grid
iron honors In the old south.
From C&lifornla came the Univer
sity of California at La: Angeles ag
gregation, en route to play the Uni
versity of Florida Saturday.
The Cal 1 forn laru were f ol 1 o w d
within an hour by 38 players of the
University of Oregon, ' who arrived
here for three daya of final prepara
tion before going to Baton Rouge to
play Louisiana State university Sat
urday. Several of the west-coasters were
suffering fron, colds contracted on
the long trsln trip south, but their
coaches indicated they expected their
squads to be In good shape for the
games.
Neither of the Pacific coast trams
had much in the way of workouts
while crossing the western states, due
to colds and a few slight Influenza
cases, those affected Including Live
say, halfback; McQue, tackle of U. C.
L. A., and Wlshard and Morse, wing
men, and Temple, back, and Swan
son, center, of Oreg. None of the
players was serlouiy 111.
The Oregon party was met here by
a delegation headed by V. T. Mot
schenbacher, president of thi Oregon
student body in 1914, now a resident
of New Orleans. The Webfoot in
vaders were headed by Coach Prink
Calllson, Bill Haywaru, veteran of
the Olympics, trainer, John Kltz-
mllter, assistant coach, and Thomas
Stoddard, asaistsnt graduate man
ager. The squsd looked tall and husky
in civilian clothes and appeared to be
a powerful aggregation.
Coach Calllson was most Interest
ed In the weather, finding It some
what cool and very damp sfter Inter
mittent rain last night. He offered
no predictions on the L. 8. U. en
counter except that his team "would
be in there playing hard and fight
ing all the time."
BASKEfBAUTpLAYERS
KILLED IN SMASHUP
www vortc. nee. 18. IAP Death
scrawled a ad score for a neighbor
hood basketball game early today. Re
turning from a, Y. M. C. A. ame, a
car carrying five players overturned.
John P. Cahlll. 33. and Edward
Erlcken. 17, died. Three were In
jured.
A doublea tourney was opened last
night on the Natatorlum bowling
alleys. The Prultt family defeated
Olll and Diamond and Moore and
Watson won over Fabrlck and 8aylor.
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R. Prultt 919
W. Prultt 174
Handicap 18
407 888 370
l a 3
J. QUI 183 MS 180
P. Diamond ..... 310 160 1B1
Handicap 13 13 13
-405 343 378
13 8
3. Moore 151 187 198
J. V. Watson 174 147
Handicap 34 34
O. Pabrlck
O. Baylor
Handicap
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148 334 171 840
17 17 17 81
303 430 837 1060
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