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Show 'FIRE BALL' HURLER HEADED 'DOWN RIVER' Only Yanks Can Stand Pat As Heavy Trading Impends a By FAT ROBINSON International News Sports Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 14 The baseball stove league season was officially of-ficially declared open today with more trades impending than any off-season the game has ever known. Every club in both major leaguea, with the lone exception of the world champion Yankees, la definitely in the market for new material, and even the Yankeea are bringing young Gordon up from their Newark New-ark farm to supplant Tony Lai-seri Lai-seri at aecond days as a Dodger are numbered, and ths club will accept ths beat offer made for him. The Uodgera aay that only the Cardinals, Reda and Cuba can afford af-ford to give aa much playing material ma-terial for Mungo aa the club thinka! it ahould have. Tha Dodgera intimate that Dlziy Dean and Pepper Martin would be acceptable from the Cardlnala: that Lee Griaaom and Ivnl Oondman would be okay from the Reda and that Frank Demaree and Larry French or even Clay Bryant would not be bad from the Cuba. The trick will be to get the Cuba, Reda or Cardinala to aee eye to eye on these deala. At least, they make 'a starting point for trade diacuaalona. Diuy Dean would be particularly particular-ly happy in a Dodger uniform and how Brooklyn fans would go for baae. No club except ths Yanka can afford af-ford to aland pat.1 Some of them dare not stand pat In this latter lat-ter category are the Cubs and Gianta, both of which have been torn by internal distension. The acouts and managera now ars Jockeying for oosition In the A trade race. Among Dlssy Dean them the moetpressing q u a a tlons at the moment are: Who will get Disxy Dean from the Cardinals? Who will get Van Mungo from tha Dodgera? How far will Bill Terry go In hia shake-up shake-up of ths Giants? Will Steve O'Neill be retained as manager of ths Indiana? Will Tony Lazxeri manage-the Beea or will the Indiana In-diana take him? The firat two queationa are of moat lntereat to baseball men. The Dodger front office today declared that Van Mungo la definitely on the market, The fireball pitcher's him! They never cared much for Mungo. but they love Dean. Baseball men expect that Terry will return Mel Ott to the outfield, where he belongs; that he will dia-poae dia-poae of Lou Chiozia, Sam Leslie, one of hia catrhera, either Harry Danning or Gux Mancuso, Hal Schumacher and tome of hla leaaer fry. Terry waa ready to trade Hubbell to the Pirates a few years ago; he might conceivably be even more willing to trade him now to the Dodgera for Van Mungo or to the Carda for Dean if aatiafactory terms could be made. |