Show CRONIN CAUSES CONCERN I m Broken Wrist Hampering t m QI Play of Star Commits Costly Errors I Chief Yawkey Chased by Ill III Luck Streak With Players t ti tiBy By HARRY DARRY GRA GRAYSON Sports Editor NEA Service 1 Not a few baseball men trace Joe Cronin's erratic work in the field this j t J spring sprine to ITo the break In his hi right wrist f suffered last Labor day 4 If it is is true that j what for tor five years I were one of at the most skillful p pair r j j jat of at hands and throwing arms in ba baseball base base- f lit ball have been impaired by the InJury inJury In In- i Jury Tom Yawkey certainly has had tough luck with fabulous purchases calculated to put the Boston Rod RId So Sox on their feet without delay J Yawkey slipped the Philadelphia Athletics for Robert Moses 1 Grove only to discover that 14 years years' lot of ol yeomans yeoman's service had taken the rl fireball from corn Lon Lonaconing conine Lefty's Lofty's once ie rubber arm er The Boston club would have run the stripes off the pennant winning I J Detroit Timers Tigers In 1931 had Grove t enjoyed a season like any anyone one of his i seven previous ones but the famous famous fa- fa southpaw spent a good shire share J of the campaign campden in sick bays endeavoring en en- L fee Ct to locate locale the source of ot Pit I IbIs his bIs difficulty and hasn't turned in ina ed it itil a really first class Job since be he il i t joined the Red Sox J Vi Vif f list st When Grove failed to blow Boston it bs' bs to the the American league buntin bunting by faI blowing down batsmen Yawkey e gave lOJ the Washington Senators and ten j I Shortstop Lyn Lar for Cronin Larj Clark lien lienThe I Griffiths Griffith's manager shortstop and son- son Ci m m w Inasmuch as as' the Hubs Hub's young man manof manof life falt of many millions forked over W Hi to the New York Yankees for tor Lary Larv H 11 a year car ago Cron Cronin's ns n's actual cost was iI W. W which probably never r will willbe willbe j tart be surpassed as the price of oC a single ball player ii V In addition Yawkey handed Cronin an ironclad year five contract at to something like J Only a reckless s gambler would make a deal like that in face of the fact that Cronin's poorest season since i- i i r he became a star stu ended wh when n his wrist iri ri rifa was fractured in the first fir game of a b fa ol doubleheader last r September 3 Ironically Cronin suffered the inJury injury in in- farn jury while playing against the Red te Sox Grounding to Eddie Morgan taft the San Francisco Irishman fell face Silt I first with the wrist doubled under him upon colliding with Wes Ves Ferrell t V Y who covered first base Pluckily he feh fehMi b remained in the the game making a great rr Mi Mil h relay throw throw to to the plate plat despite the II l 1 7 fracture in the following inning tr trying ing to cut of off Bill Cronin jammed the same wrist sliding slid slId- feb b. b ing tog in n an exhibition game this spring and remained put cut of several of them themas s Ia-s as a result Cronin says that this I w Ivas was not due to the old injury and is I 1 substantiated by Dr Edward Larking mill Ithe the Washington clubs club's physician who 14 fe declares that the break breal isn't bothering botherling bother bother- turn ling ing in the head man of t the e Red fled Sox and Ihas has not affected his throwing 4 let I Baseball men shake th their ir heads beads and wonder just the same i t lEI Babe Dahlgren Dahgren saved Cronin Croni errors error o with phenomenal catches in the ope opening opening open open- tent It ing series with the Yankees Cr Cronin m i fumbled a game away for Grove Wl with three miscues in Boston and his tw two cl boots enabled his old Washington Jh teammates to overcome a two run deficit and beat Ferrell in the n ninth rith as the Senators swept t the e three-game three series Cronin contributed liberally or orto to the Boston arrays array's 15 errors errors in lathe e games gamu Some contend that Cronin's fieldIng field field- it Ing Ine fell off in 1934 1 with increased weight weIcht They argue that the aggressive aggressive ag ag- Itt e chap from the Golden Gate t no longer can get ct down donn to grasp rasp It balls he be did fd ground round as easily as from 1929 to 1933 1033 Inclusive during dunn t which time he be was voted the most mosi valuable alual Je player in the loop and nd lashed the Senators to a flag Cronin's true worth as a defensive I player never could be measured by I his average h however wever He always hiS has a gotten his mitts on balls that some orte j i other shortstops would not get ne near fe |