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Show Yank Heads Have to Draw Brooklyn Training Slate; - Eilot-GrimesJflandcuffed By GAYLE TALBdT NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (AP) With what promises to be one of the most prosperous baseball seasons on record coming up in 1938, the sorry plight of the Brooklyn Dodgers fast is becoming of serious concern to rival clubs in the National league. ! . ;i 1-3. Burleigh Grimes ... If you think you have troubles, how bout "Boiling Boily" of the hapless hap-less Brooklyn Dodgers? They are sitting by helplessly and not laughing while strife and indecision in-decision in the Dodgers' front office of-fice tears the stuffing out of one of the most valuable holdings in the business. The antics of the "daffi-ncss "daffi-ncss boys'.' aren't funny any more. There is gloom In the other offices of-fices when the subject comes up. They just have heard that the Dodgers' 193K spring training schedule has been made out for them by the Yankees, there being no one in the demoralised Brooklyn Brook-lyn headquarters to attend to such chores since (ieneral .Man- ajeer John jornian got his walking walk-ing papers some weeks ago. "We can't deny we're worried shout it," said one National league official. "Naturally, we can't try to tell them their business or offer any kind of help, but we know that if something isn't done we're all going to lose. The Brooklyn fans have been loyal, but there must be a limit." Van Mungo Case There is no clear indication yet what disposition the Dodgers will make of Van Lingle Mungo, the pucher, or whether the warring owners even have given Manager Burleigh Grimes permission to make a deal. Some of the fellows came away from the recent Chicago meeting with the distinct impression impres-sion that Grimes was handcuffed. A deal whereby the Dodgers obtained some useful playera and some cash for Mungo would tide things over temporarily, but it's realized that nothing except a change of ownership can ever effect ef-fect a complete cure. That'a what the rest of the league would like for a New Year's gift. There's been some talk about it lately, too. A syndicate headed by former Mayor Jimmy Walker is said to have made a bona fide offer and something might come of it yet. The Brooklyn franchise would be a grand buy for any group that worked in concert and had the cash to go into the market for players. Kbbets field last season had a bigger big-ger opening crowd than the Polo-Grounds. Polo-Grounds. Have Vet Prexy The most popular belief is, though, that Judge Steve McKeever, the club's octogenarian president, will stick right in there and continue his feud with the heirs of the late Charles Ebbets to his last breath. They've never agreed on anything yet, and some folks declare they never will. Meantime the spring training schedules are only a week away, and Burleigh Grimes, as if he didn't have enough troubles on his mind, has been forced to pay $385 rent on a Brooklyn flat he vacated because be-cause his lease expired. He made the tactical blunder of telling a Brooklyn jury he didn't like some vagrant odor in the neighborhood. |