Show I Minor Loops Open Annual Confab In Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS Dec 8 S INS Minor leaguers opened their annual annual annual an an- nual winter inter meetings in Minneapolis olis Wednesday while major leaguers played dagger cloak-and-dagger in the wings ings Several big name clubs were openly looking for players but not money And several big name baseball men who were running out of money were openly openly openly open open- ly looking for jobs There were enough rumored trades to cause new and stringent tariff restrictions but up to the small hours of this morning nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing was definite However the New York Giants were expected to make an important important important tant trade announcement sometime sometime sometime some some- time today Catcher Walker Valker Cooper Coope Coop- Coop e er who has sounded off against Giant manager Leo Durocher and who underwent an operation on his knee in St St. Louis yesterday might be he the man Facing the minor leagues were at least three three urgent issues what issues what issues what to do with television what to do with the faulty lighting systems that plague and harm night games in m the minors and what hat to do about the irritating ever-irritating bonus rule |