Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-15 | Page 21 | Bosox Still Long Way from Championship Form

Still Long r Way From Championship Form By DAVIS J. J WALSH International News V Sports Editor NEW YORK Oct 15 At 15 At the risk of ruffling the fine world old-world courtesy of Business Manager Collins who is vigorously prepared to resent any idle prattle that tends lends to publicise his employers employer's in interests interests interests in- in I I- I shall Ishall mention that the lie word is around aroun J that Joe Cronin's number is up as manager of th the Boston Red Bed Sox This is the fa fabulous ulous u- u lous bus outfit on which Thomas Thomas' Yawkey has spent millions and so far all he has to show is a lot of stubs in the check book They were supposed to have bought the pennant and there was a areat great reat deal of withering scorn for Mr Connie Mack who was supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to have sold it to them But in in inthe the end t th the h S' S Sox 0 x 28 games james out of the lead ead finished back there here with Mr Mack and Mack an and d Mr Mack Mack finished finished n ish e d with the money k As for Cronin he the is that understanding his leader leadership ship has affected 1 his playing or vice versa and that thai either elther the re result way v dl suIt sult is not pappy happy espe especially at 25 Cronin But his contract contract contract con con- tract still stUl has three years to go and naturally hell he'll stay on one way or another since the Sox can do without a manager but not without a shortstop However the story is not Cronin but the men they bought him at prices away up in the preposterous digits Grove digits Grove at Foxx Cramer Cramer Cramer Cra Cra- mer and McNair at possibly 1000 Manush at Foxx alone stood up McNair was less than ordinary Cramer was a flat fiat failure never could hit the size of his of-his his neckband neckband neckband neck neck- band anyhow and Manush is al already already al- al ready a free agent meaning that you can have him for nothing even lup up His throws were still in deep left leftfield leftfield leftfield field on a a. a relay and everybody just kept running As for the Sox Sax they couldn't run nobody could hit and nobody could pitch except Grove and Wesley Ferrell which Ferrell-which which was the worst feature of all The fact is that they're so Unpopular unpopular unpopular un un- popular with the ho he players that they really ought to be be- traded and at the same same time so popular with the fans that they cant can't be At least that's the way Mr Yawkey is understood to figure although of course its it's only an unverified rumor that th the gentleman ever figures at all Anyhow his problem is more complicated complicated com corn than he seems to think He doesn't need a new manager He needs a ball club