Show BASEBALL BASEBALL- Cards Sell S ll Hurler To T 0 Giants By ROMNEY WHEELER ATLANTA Dec 6 UP Dont Don't Don't Dont think Larry Ma MacPhail's Flatbush frolics are going unnoticed in n Man Man- hattan Brooklyn's president caught the spotlight here her at the thirty-ninth thirty annual minor league convention when h he opened his Dodger moneybags moneybags money money- bags for player talent But to today today today to- to day it was the New York Giants' Giants turn to rattle the blue chips Giants Get Hurler o. o In Ina In a sudden move last night Wight they dropped an estimated in the ilie bucket to buy Pitcher Bob Bowman from the St. St Louis Cardinals Car Car- and and Giant officials hinted Manager Bill Terry was down to the shirtsleeve stage on a couple other otheT sizable deals While Terry remained inaccessible ble in his downtown hotel room lobby speculation was as pegged on two possibilities 1 That the Giants would seek 1 to send Catcher Harry Daming Danning to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Outfielder Hank Le Leiber ber and a pitcher l possibly pitcher possibly Claude 2 That the Giants would swap Infielder Nick Witek for Cincinnati's Cincin Cincin- nati's natis pitcher Whitey Moore There was no indication that either deal would materialize and sources predicted Terry would take takei i z no flO final action until the major v league convention in Chicago next t L week j The Dhe Giants completed two deals early e today with minor league clubs One signs Pitcher Harold i. i Hy to Rochester of the International league in what may have been an outgrowth of New Yorks York's trading with wirth the Car Car- Sent on Option In the other deal the Giants sent both Outfielder John Dickshot Dickshot Dickshot Dick- Dick shot and nd Pitcher Roy Joiner from their thedr Jersey City farm fann to Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood of the Pacific Coast league for an option on Joe Hoover a shortstop who will remain at Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Hol Hol- lywood during the 1941 season Brooklyn which gave Catcher Gus Mancuso a rookie pitcher anc and better than cash for Catcher Catch Catch- er Mickey Owen of the Cardinals was was said to b be still in a dickering mood but with no immediate trade 4 on th the fire The Chicago Cubs were reported peddling First Baseman Zeke Bonura who hit a disappointing last season in 49 games games but bui with no takers The Cubs also so were were mentioned as interested in Outfielder Harry Cr Craft t of the Cincinnati Cm- Cm Reds if the latter would or talk taik business In In the American league the only T trade talk came from the the- direction of the W Washington Senators who I were rumored mildly interested in Pitcher Cletus Boots ger eccentric former Dodger who won 26 games for Nashville in the x Southern association last summer I Billy Myer was renamed to manage manage man man- age the Kansas Kangas City club of the American association He had hac tasked asked 2 last month for freedom to 1 f negotiate pres presumably mably hoping to get of the Chicago Cubs but failing falling this finally came cameto cameto cameto to terms with the New York Yankees Yankees Yan- Yan kees who operate the Kansas IF City Blues Minor Leaguers Through J The minor leaguers leagueS meanwhile wound up their three-day three convention convention convention conven conven- tion with a final business session I today and left to their executive committee the task of picking packing nex next years year's meeting place Six cities are are Jacksonville bidding bidding Jacksonville and Miami Miami Mi Mi- ami Beach Fla Toledo Ohio San Antonio Texas Oakland an and San Francisco Cal Oal The committee committee commit commit- tee has until April 1 to decide but bu likely will announce the designation designation designation tion at a meeting in Louisville Ky in early January Last night the convention heard heart Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Mountain Landis in one of his of-his his in infrequent infrequent in- in frequent addresses Landis re refrained re- re ined fra from talk of business charging baseball men only with the responsibility of the respectability and integrity o of the game during the trying period of the war |