Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-11-10 | Page 16 | Backseat Driving

1 i S t Backseat Driving j I Stove League Busy I i fj S What a n Champion i I 1 r 1 By 3 FRANK E. E BAKERI BAKER BARER I 1 Telegram Sports Editor I I II Big Trades Ought to Liven l Season Off in iii Baseball I Baseball men may be lying low Jow while the football season is In full j blast but meanwhile there is plenty of oC front office activity the results of which may burst loose in the form of some sensational trades or shakeups before the first of the year I Clubs like the Browns crowns Red Sox Yankees Athletics White Sox I l Cubs and Cardinals CardInals all all with money or player material or both available I for lor b. b bartering purposes purposes already already have begun to sound out the market 1 i Cleveland too has signified Its Intention to seize early opportunities 1 for lor action by trading Chalmer Bill Bm Cissell to the Red Sox for tor Southpaw South- South i j paw Lloyd Brown t. t The ever-constant ever search for the old batting punch leads one to believe that the Cardinals Braves Cubs and Dodgers will bid high for forI forthe J I the services of Chuck Klein slugging outfielder of the Phillies if there t is any intimation he Is on the block II A few years ago Klein could have been sold for cash Half that much probably would be top price In these times Whether or or not the Yankees retain Ruth at a fancy iancy salary they I I are apparently depending on their ra farm products products' to strengthen the dub club for 1934 They expect Charley Chancy Devens to bolster the thc staff of starting pitchers and Red ned Rolfe the former fonner Dartmouth star developed devel opeil as 5 a shortstop with Newark to strengthen the thc left side of the Infield I HE HE BE WOULDN'T SAY YES BUT HE DID SAY NO incidentally the Red Sox Sax not Detroit that wanted Mickey Cochrane as player manager and caused the recent report that the Athletic star was to be sold I Collins sounded out Connie Mack on the subject of selling his great backstop but Connie said Na Nay Nay r George Earnshaw Is waiting for for- his 1934 contract before deciding whether or not he will quit baseball next season If he thinks he can I earn cam more In the insurance business than what the As A's offer him next year as a pitcher pilcher hell he'll not show up for spring practice 1 Jimmy Foxx broke that bone In his foot playing an exhibition game came In Maryland Jimmy Jinmy by the way Is no longer the shy modest young I man he hens was ns of ore Critics close to the game say Jimmys Jimmy's fully fuBy aware I of his his' Importance nce to baseball ba ball now i Recently an an- an eastern scribe cribe jokingly suggested the baseball base base- j ball men draw names out of ot a hat each spring and thereby base I l away do-away with all the red tape of trading in the winter In In more seri seriousness wed we'd like to see another system tried of enlivening Interest In the national pastime but imagine the e moguls would shy away from It as hurriedly as they would the hat-drawing hat proposal Why not let the champi champions ns of the American association and the International league graduate each year to the American and National leagues respectively A place i could be be bem m made de for br the new team each spring by dropping I the cellar team in each of ot the major leagues down to lower l loops ps Such an would create a n big Interest at both ends of the standings for there'd be plenty of reason to stay stay out of the cellar just as there is a premium on winning the I championships I Radical Yes but I believe it would work I t Da Preem No o Model L Like e Old lIe Heroes roes To Hold Up Before World Consider Consid r. r u fi you il-you you au have some time the man who now occupies the I throne on which John L. L Sullivan James J. J Corbett and Jack Dempsey I tat Eat t S HeO He up a reputation by pushing over a lot lotof of cripples on a tour arranged for or him by Bill Bm Duffy Duy who eventually maneuvered him into a about 1 bout with Sharkey for the title i t J Just us t before winning the title this man Prima PrImo Camera took the theS the'S S 'S 1 HI poor debtors debtor's oath to avoid paying honest debts t i I e V h It he tossed aside Dully Duffy without with ut whose se assistance he be b J r I 1 4 I II I z- z wouldn't 1 h have C been able to get as' as Jar as-Jar ar as S first first base baS NJ S In this country f Prior to that he had ignored the man who first saw heavyweight pos pos- in Inthe the big Italian when he was playing a strong man role in a a 1 French circus I To avoid an army of creditors who were at it the dock to get their I money before he sailed tailed he sneaked out of the country on a tugboat boarding the liner down the bay For the first bout In defense of his title h he picked out the most I helpless opponent possible and then couldn't do a anything but win a aI I decision on points over him S N Now W he lie announces he plans to defend his title again agam in Rome ins tn ln- ln I s stead of In America which gave him hundreds of thousands of ol dollars besides the championship NN S What a champion