Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-14 | Page 13 | Connie Mack May Sell out A's by Disposing of Cramer, Fox and Higgins to Red Sox

l Connie Mack May Sell Out As A's by Disposing of Cramer Fox and Higgins to Red So Sox x By y HARRY GRAYS GRAYSON ON r Sp Special cial to the Telegram v NEW YORK Sept 14 14 With With the Athletics so deep in red ink izik that hat the grand old bid di hard die hard Connie Mack is is' stumping t the e Am Amer Jt r ican lean league in the interests interess of night baseball 11 the venerable leader is h expected to bail out the Philadelphia club and t then en some this f fall faU faUby n by selling James Emory Foxx Roger Cramer and Pinky Higgins S Sto to the immensely rich Boston Doston Red Sox 0 That would be bo a t fairly important ant deal After seeing a pronounced lead dissipated by the New York Giants for the second straight season Bill Terry may n not t even wait for tor the tho world series to be bo concluded before handing h-anding tho the faithful Phillies Roy Parmelee Hughie Hughle Critz Mark Koenig Koenig Koe Koe- Koenig nig and for tor Dolph Cammi Camilli and Curt Davis There Thero is n no question but that young oung Thomas Thoma Austin Yawkey Is keenly disappointed d with his Is' Is fifth place Red So Sox to whom tho the Hub HubS S patrons have havo remained so loyal Too Joo Cronin realizes th that t the a array aray y will wili be even weaker weak r in 1938 1936 unless a there are replacements Wes Ferrell and Bob Grove Grov cant can't be expected to carry carryon on again next year the way they have bre this season ewson says Cronin It w would ld b be brutal to to expect them to go o out there thero and hurl winning ball d day y Inand in inand inand and day out only to to tolee see lee us S fail faU t to bat in enough runs runs- for tor them to win to-win win r especially Grove X ti Good Slugger Would S Solve Jve Red IRed Sox 1 Big lg Problem of Men I 1 n Left on Bags We need at least one gre great t slugger slugger slugger slug slug- ger and at atle least t o one e other good hit hit- ter Why just the other afternoon we left 22 men on the tho bases in one onega ga game e. e two Twenty two Imagine Just think what a Foxx a a Hank Greenberg or a a. Lou Iou Gehrig would have meant to us that day Its It's b been en that way all season Were We're In in tho market Well We'll talk business with anybody Gehrig and Greenberg are not for sale at any price but with the Athletics Athletics Ath Ath- requiring ready cash and few fewIn fewIn fewin in Philadelphia caring one way or ortho ortho ortho tho other it is reasonable to suspect suspect suspect sus sus- that Yawkey who is down to his last will purchase Foxx A And d in disposing of ot his homeS home- home S run hitter Mack MacIt might j just st as well wen go all the way and get all aU h he h. cOan can for tor Cramer and Higgins too Foxx h has S repeatedly expressed IL a desire to escape from Shibo Pork Park Macks Mack's statement that only two members of his 1935 team Wally Moses and little Rabbit hustled is taken by many as WI asa a W warn warning rn rn- rn ing lag Intended to muffle if possible the cries of the few Philadelphia fans tans interested enough to complain b when when the the thO barter Is disclosed Foxx and Higgins the long range swatters matters and Cramer bidding for forthe the batting championship haven't been on their toes acc according to th the tall tactician Any club with the price would like Uke to have Fo Foxx Higgins Hit Hig HI 2 l gins and Cramer f f. f p. p Problems lems Presented resent by Mos Moses iI Red Sox Give Up Un in In Case of Dahlgren I Moses and h have vo ve down according to Mack But Moses has a broken arm and ler er would have a tough time landing another position in the majors if given his outright release 1 The Red Sox have given up on I Babe Dahlgren who ho would be succeeded succeeded suc sue II by Foxx at first base The Boston management has hM an idea that Bill Werber w was a one year one year wonder He would be succeeded by Higgins at third base Foxx and Higgins are are the great sluggers of ot whom Cronin speaks and Cramer the tho other ther good hitter Terry seeks Camilli as a r replacement replacement replace replace- ment for himself at first base bas or orthe orthe or ortho the tho Giants Davis would wout d be expected to fill the tho ah shoes s' s of P Parmelee who vh in tare tare- r re recent cent wC weeks ks has been shelled from the tho hillock as regularly as he formerly for for formerly merly erly won Crib Critz has slowed down but In la Ja late e games has proved d an improvement ement over Koenig who practically topped after getting getting- off to toa a fh start Al Cuccinello is slated to start the season eason at second base bale for tor the ule Giants next spring In face of ot his hb- performances of 1933 and 1934 and in the early goIng go go- goIng Ing tag this year Terry may be losing patience with Parmelee a a. bit too s soon n. n But the thc Giants' Giants collapsible e tendencies require desperate mea mea- 1 ture