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Show 'Racers No Longer Gravel Wagons1 Senior Loop Says Deader PilljNeeded I By I'AL'L MICKELSOV. CHICAGO, Dec. 7 A) Stymied I at almost every bid on the dullest i player mart in memory of the old-1 jest ivory hunters, nijj league club-1 'owners today haggled over an old,! favorite subject the baseball. ! i Over In the National la(tue everyone wriiMd agreed that ft deader ball Mai necessary for the twasoii, hut in the American, where Ioiik distance bittern grow like mushrooms and pop much louder, the lively hall (tan Han fighting a hard fight, and it looked a if it might win its point. j Thus there was every indication ferent calibers of horsehides next season the Nationals a dead one and the Americans the same old lively spheroid. Five-flour .Meet So intense was the baseball dispute dis-pute in the American league meeting meet-ing yesterday that the clinic lasted almost five hours a record sitting. Nothing official was learned, but by grapevine information came reports re-ports that the Yankees argued so long and verfently for the old ball that they won the majority over. However, a tour of inspection was held of a ballmaking laboratory last night where the argument continued con-tinued until the wee hours of the morning. Meanwhile, the only news from the huddle of clubowners and managers man-agers came in the way of front office business, which was: The National league reelected Ford Chrutopher Krtc-k an president presi-dent for a three-year term at a good hooNt in salary, now estimated esti-mated to he Si7,.HMi annually. It voted down the New York Yankee Yan-kee proposal to hike the player limit from 23 to 2,1 and awarded the 1938 all-star game to Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. In addition to their debate over the ball, the American league voted (iff-Ml ' Waldo Stein. . .Began auto racing career with Barney Oldfield. (Story in adjacent Backseat Driving column.) to open its 1938 season April 19 and close October 2 a day later on each end than in 1937 and voted down Sunday doubleheaders until the home team has played three Sabbath Sab-bath games. The Americans also voted to continue the major-minor league agreement from February 1, 1938, to January 1. 1942, and reelected re-elected Colonel Jacob Ruppcrt of the Yankees vice president. Named with the colonel on the league board of directors were Lou Comiskey. Chicago; Alba Bradley, Cleveland, and Tom Yawkey, Boston. Pensions also were voted to two retired American league umpires, Bill Dlnneen and George Hilde-brand. Hilde-brand. Dinneen retired yesterday; Hildebrand quit in 1934. Bosox Walk Out Closest approach to a major league swap fell through late last night as the Boston Red Sox walked out of a conference with Cleveland. Cleve-land. The Red Sox offered Pitcher Lefty Grove and Infielder Eric Mc-Nair Mc-Nair to the Indians for Pitchers Mel Harder and Dennis Gatehouse and Infielder Roy Hughes, but Cleveland insisted on Infielder Pinky Higgins instead of Grove. That was the rub Chicago's White Sox, leaders In the player mart today, promised another deal today, while the National Na-tional leaguers, notably Pittsburgh, Chicago and Brooklyn, hoped to end their deadlock by nightfall Burleigh Bur-leigh Crimea still had Pitcher Van Lingle Mungo up for the highest bidder. Baseball reporters actually were tiring under the strain of trying to cook up deals among the nabobs. It was so bad that the "hot foot" craze was at its height with no casualties. Chief victim-apparent was Wayne "T-Bone" Otto of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, but even he laughed off the attempts with: "Go ahead and try it. My shoes are so sweaty from walking around that they're too wet to light up." So you can see how tough it is. |
