Show I GROVE TI SAYS i SALARY WING Wl OKEH I i Big Season t With f In Prospect By EDDIE BRIETZ Writer I Associated Press Sports NEW YORK Jan 28 Robert 8 Robert Ios 1 Moses s r t Grove the American leagues s big believe his valuable F question n mark left lell arm has reI regained re re- refI re f I I i Rained gained its lost cunning cun I IL L ning and that he isA is isa I Ia a good bet to win I at least 20 ball the Bos Bo Boston games for f Bos ton Red Saxe Sox Sax I year a r. r t f r lean e Looking as w. and limber as ever lf the tall southpaw j visited his old old old- J stamping grounds f at Philadelphia lh the theother I other d day ar a and n ri I cheered one and all gI 1 f I t with with t the e confident confide t prediction that hell he'll 1 sta stage e a real come- come Lefty Letty Grove i back with the Cronin comb combI nation 4 Im in great shape he said I 1 4 never felt better M My arm hasn't bothered bothered both both- ered me all winter Im I'm O. O K I Besides walking walkine a lot and hunting Grove has been bowling and getting lit It some in-some work with a rowing rowin machine machin-c. S lIe He says he hc has yet to feel a twinge or tweak in his is salary whip r Memories of r 1931 b He isn't saying ying he will win reach his 1 steaming 1931 form which brought 31 I victories and only four defeats but he hei heis i is ic sure hell he'll collect 20 victories this i year and maybe more Notwithstanding his unimpressive 1934 showing when he won only eight games and dropped the same num num- I ber bar Tom Yawkey and Eddie Collins I haven't lost confidence in m their t beauty The They rec recently gave ave him hima himI I a new contract calling for the same salary last last year year ear The venerable Connie Mack isn't I without the support o of precedent in r f deciding to switch Jimmie Fox behind I the plate this year ear from first base r Some o of the games game's greatest backstops started at other positions including Jimm Jimmy Archer and Hank Gowdy who I d began as first basemen Roger Bresna Bresna- q han ban converted from an outfielder by John lohn McGraw and Bill Killifer bat bat- I cry mate of oC Grover Alexander and originally an outfielder I Wagner Tried Em Ent All f The gr great grat at Honus Wagner pitcher t played the outfield and tried all four fou infield positions ons be before ore settling fettling down downto t to become the time all star all short short- C stopS stop Babe Ruth as almost everyone ever J knows began his major majot league career 11 as a southpaw v pitcher Mel Ott OU slugging slug slug- I ging outfielder o of the thc Giants came as a catcher and Fred Lindstrom S switched from third base to the outfield outfield out out- field at McGraws McGraw's suggestion i i Fifteen of or the 35 play players rs on the S Washington roster rosier have signed conf con con- i. i p f tracts Connie Mack will vill carry f eight pitchers this season The Yankees are trying to cook up a deal for another outfielder with no names It mentioned Bob Quinns Quinn's hopes for forone forone t one big family of oC contented athletes were st stymied by Van Mungo ace twirler who returned a contract calling call call- i ing lag for or per |