Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-20 | Page 15 | Hot Rumors from Ball Camps

I x. :X-.-ST .LA FRANKIE FR1SCH Hot Rumors From Ball Camps By PAUL SCHEFFELS NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (UP) Sparks from the Hot Stove league: Pittsburgh Pirates' Manager Frankie Frisch had a speech-stopping attack of laryngitis last spring, but now there's only one thing except for a recurrence of the malady that could strike him dumb again. . . that Is if his two "cellophane-arm" pitchers Russ Bauers and Johnny Gee pitch like they did last year . . . Bauers has been a complete failure for the last two seasons, while eGe washed out and didn't pitch a ball after the season started last year . . . Unless all signs fall. President Bob Qulnn will be at the steering wheel again when the Boston Bees leave for their new training quarters quar-ters at San Antonio, Texas, February Febru-ary 20 . . . The group reportedly ready to buy the club has not been heard from for almost a month now, while Qulnn himself quashed recent rumors that Manager Casey Stengel and Outfielder Johnny Cooney had purchased substantial stock in the Bees . . . The St. Louis Cardinals have one 22-game winner and three 19-game victors on the squad of 20 rookie pitchers that go to spring training camp at St Petersburg, Fla., next month . . . Howie Krlst of Houston heads the list with 22 won, while Matty Surkont, Herschel Lyons and Hank Gornlckl each clicked off 19 decisions . . . Surkont was with Decatur and the other two with Rochester . . . Manager Joe Cronln and the Boston Bos-ton Red Sox, who go to the walling wall-ing wall every spring with a chronic shortage of pitching talent, may receive an added blow from the military draft . . . Joe Walsh of Brookline, Mass., a favorable pitching prospect who hurled for Danville In 1940, Is No. 165 and in class one on his home town draft list . . Although the record 50-game exhibition ex-hibition trip mapped out for the Brooklyn Dodgers this year will, according to Boss-Man Larry Mac-Phail, Mac-Phail, probably set new spring attendance at-tendance figures and bring his club home "in the pink" for the pennant push, baseball men are unconvinced as to the advisability of such a strenuous schedule . . . The wags have it that MacPhail Is dickering with Pasadena, Cal., authorities to have his club serve as part of the Rose bowl festlvi ties, figuring perhaps to swing Into the 1942 spring tralrring grind right from there ... Wes Ferrell, former pitcher with several of the major league clubs who faded out of the big time with a sore arm early last season, Is said to be planning plan-ning a comeback . . . Ferrell, who'll be 33 next month, hopes to hook on with a major league outfit, but bs ready for a minor league offer if it pays well ... The news that Harlond Clift of the St Louis Browns has gone In for skiing In a big way at his Yakima, Yak-ima, Wash., home, gave the Brownies Brown-ies the Jitters . . . Imagine what would happen to the American league's best third baseman if he sldeswlped a tree or slid in to a hidden boulder.