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Show DETROIT MANAGEMENT FINALLY SOLD VEACH Veteran Outfielder Was on Market for Three Years. The sale of Bob Veach to Boston marks the culmination of three years' effort on the part of the Tiger management manage-ment to peddle the veteran gardener. A hitter of no mean ability and a fielder as good as the average, Veach, nevertheless, has never fitted in the scheme of things according to Cobb's ideas, a tendency to slow thinking probably having something to do with it In going to the Red Sox under Lee Fold and Bob Qulnn, Veach will be working for a pair to whose downfall he contributed In no small degree two years ago, when they had the Browns battling the Yankees for the pennant Toward te end of September that yesr the Browns, just a lap behind New York, stopped over In Detroit on their way home, winding up their last Invasion. The clubs went Into the eleventh Inning tied, an 1 then, with two out and two on, Dauss passed Tobln to get at Eddie Foster. Foster took a toe hold and swung, and three runners started homeward as the ball winged down the left-field foul line about two feet oft the ground. It looked like a certain triple, but Veach, playing deep, raced over, dived ';lear of terra firnia end speared the ball with his bare hand, sprawling out after he made the catch, which was of the "Impossible" variety. , Pniett blew In the thirteenth and the Tigers romped in. Incidentally, as Is well known, St. Louis finished Just one game behind New York. |