| Show A n s I I JOR OR PILOTS FAIL TO COMPLETE SINGLE IMPORTANT PLAYER DEAL DUElL y EXCESSIVE DEMANDS DEMANDS' THROW INTO TRADES Much Heralded Draft Question Finally Comes ComesUp ComesUp ComesUp Up for Definite Decision r I IBy I IBy By H Herbert erbert Barker NEW YORK o pee Dec 10 io AP AP- AP Major 1 league club owners and managers man man- agers have o set somo some sort of or a R. record for the A if t first two days das of t 4 the tho annual raidI raid mid Id- Id z I winter meetings y J they've fa failed ed i r to complete a 0 single player deal 5 k V t of ot any I Import Import- lort- lort tc 1 anc ance 4 Is It Its It's s not because they they haven't tried Hour after hour hourin S I S in the hotel lobbies lobbins lob lob- y S 'S M y t bies bins the conversations conver conver- 1 ji 1 1 1 s go goon on but oy every Q r y budding b Iy deal has been i if f t 1 J i n nipped by l the tho h 0 C 1 frost r st of or excessive t I demands before it reached full ull bloom Tho The Now York lork Yankees for far r In Instance Instance In- In InI I stance h have ve been talking things thinS's over with tho the S St. St Louis Lous Browns Brown UJ tIme the Chicago White So slid and rid the Dost Boston n Red Sox without Uh tit getting anywhere From tho the Browns the tho Yanks would like to get a pitcher particularly particular George Geors Blach lder but the Browns ar art arc tnt interested r 1 only in a no pitcher the tho Yankees do not want to lose y young un Henry Johnson YANKEES SEEK SE PAIR OF Third Baseman Willie Kamm anti anil Catcher Moe Ioe Berg aro ro the tho players the X Yankees would bo be glad slad to take ot off the White Sox hands and they still have a n. 1 hunkering hankering for either cither Dann Danny MacFayden or Ed Morris Red Sox pitching aces C 3 Outfielder Harry Rico is the Yankee most lik likely Ilk Ilk- eI ely to figure Ina irta trade Rogers Hornsby of tho Chicago o Cubs has about given v n up of ot getting First Baseman Jim Bottom Bottom- Bottomley Ie ley from tho the Cardinals and will string alon along with Charlie Grimm and George Kelly The Tho Giants Giants' could us use Ulo Berger slugging outfielder outfielder out out- fielder er or of tho the Boston Doston Braves but every time John McGraw v tries t to do b business s mC someone ne asks asks' for Third Baseman Freddie Lindstrom and the whole whole- things thing's off oft A contemplated deal between n Brooklyn anti and the tho Boston Braves has luis t fallen Uen through Brooklyn want want- ed d to send zend Harvey Har Hendrick arid and Gord Gordon n Sl de to tho Braves In Iti exchange ex ex- change hange for tor Ed Ed Brandt a good pit pitch pitch- h- h er Tho ho Braves were willing to buy fl k out outright but refused to part I with Brandt There Thera aro are more veterans around the tile meetings looking for jobs than thanin in some years Cy Perkins old Philadelphia AU Athletic leUc catcher would liko Jlko to hook hool up with Portland of tho the Pacific C Coat Coast league uc while Jack JackQuInn JackQuinn JackQuinn Quinn thinks s ho lie still could be of or assistance to a n. major league pitchIng pitch pitch- l Ing irig S staff Ho t talked l to Hornsby but tho the Cubs alrea already havo seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen pitchers Bob who was mentioned as ps Portland's next neit manager before Spencer Abbott beat him to it is hero scouting Uns around and so 80 are Dore WaUle Joe Dugan and nd Oscar Vitt It It Is understood that George StalEr Sis Sta- ler has bas gone gono to tho the end of or his playIng play play- Ing Jag da days s with the tho Boston Doston Braves Draves and may become a coach with that c cub chib if It he ho cant can't find anything h bet bet- lter l- l ter The Time club has promised not to stand in his wa way Theres There's only one sure thing thinS about and that thatis is ho wont won't dr drop p back In into b the minors N NEITHER ITHER LEAGUE ACCOMPLISHES MUCH Neither the tiie American nor the the National r. leagues accomplished much of or other than ro routine natu nature at yesterdays yesterday's meetings meeting Today the much heralded conference over the tile draft situation is to be held be between between between be- be tween tho the committee o of of nino nine from the tho American association association- International Intern and Pacific Coast Conat leagues and a n. committee representing t the th majors The American leagues league's representatives representatives rep rep- aro are F. F Barnard Barnnrd president of ot tho the league e Frank NaVia Na- Na Via of or Detroit Jacob Ruppert of the Yankees and L. L C. C McAvoy of ot the St. St Louis Browns Conferees for tOr the tho National league are Barney Barney I Dey ss of pI r William I L. L I Vee of ot tho the Chicago Cubs Cuba and aud Emil Fuchs of the Boston Braves I Tho The American n league passed a a. Tub rule lc ordering orde the tho numbering of players both at home and on the tha roa road t t |
