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Show I Few Major Trades Loom In Annual Baseball Meet By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (AP) Listen closely at king football blusters his way out today and you'U hear the thumping and throbbing of the baseball drums. They can't remain silent long. It seems only day before yesterday yester-day that Bill Terry sat in his big ball bearing chair in the Polo Grounds c I u fa-house, fa-house, listened to the carousal of the victorious Yankees next door, and said: "B o y s, they simply licked hell out of us." Yet. next Wednesday, Wed-nesday, the minor mi-nor leagues open their big three-1 day horse trading trad-ing session at Milwaukee, and five days later m ... McKrchnle going to Brooklyn alone. Yet, in the light of subsequent events. It is clear that the most important and far reaching event of that meeting was a $10000 banquet thrown by Owner Horace Stone-ham Stone-ham of the Giants. Neither the Yankees nor the Detroit De-troit Tigers, destined to finish one-two one-two In the American league, made a single deal. Among the most whooped-up trades of the session was that sending Third Baseman Frank Higgina of the Athletics to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for Bill Werber. The final 1937 standings stand-ings fail to show where either club profited. The Chicago White Sox. perhaps, made . the most profitable deal when they got Pitcher Thornton Thorn-ton Lee from Cleveland. He trimmed the Yanks five straight before they finally caught up with him. Chiosxa Flopped The biggest trade of all a six-player six-player swap didn't noticeably do the Cleveland Indians or St. Louis Browns any good. Terry parted with a minor league player and $25,000 cash to get Third Baseman Lou Chiozza from the Phils. Lou flopped at the hot corner, though he did do some valuable and totally unexpected batting for the Giants toward the end of the campaign. Pittsburgh found that the veteran vet-eran Ed Brandt, obtained from Brooklyn, was no bargain, and the Cards found no value in the three players they picked up. The reluctant conclusion must be that the midwinter conclave of the managera produces much more ballyhoo bal-lyhoo than tangible results. It is good, clean fun. though. the major league magnates start exercising their tonsils at Chicago. There will be a world of noise, particularly par-ticularly at Chicago, and there will be one - "sensational" trade right after the other, none of them destined to affect next year's pennant pen-nant races in th. slightest degree. Every manager from Joe McCarthy McCar-thy of the terrible Yankees to Bill McKechnie, new boss of the lowly Cincinnati, will go to Chicago determined de-termined to ouUlick a couple of rival pilots and strengthen his club out of all recognition without spending a cent. And none will return horn, with anything notable nota-ble except a temporary squint from cigar smoke. Swap Player. It's a dirty trick, but take last year's meeting here. They swapped players all over the place, no fewer than 20 sterling performers changing uniforms, four of them |