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Show Yankees Get Grissom From Reds on Waiver By GEORGE KIRKNET NEW YORK, Jin. 4 (UP) Th first kick-back from tht American Ameri-can league's "no-trad" rule, which wss directed at tha Yen-kees, Yen-kees, cama today whan tha world champlont evded tha laglalatlon by making a deal with tha Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Reds under tha waiver (UlM. In an unusual deal which prompted a lot of eyebrow lifting, lift-ing, tha Yanka obtained Pitcher Lee Griwom In exchange for Pitcher doe Begga from their Newark farm club. Before the Reds could dispose of Grissom, big left-hander who looked like a comer In 1937 but never lived up to hli promise, they had to waive him out of the National Na-tional league. The fact that tha Reds were able to obtain waivers came as a surprise. Several National Na-tional league clubs could have done worse. Disposal of Crlssom means that the Reds are counting heavily on Johnny (No-Hit) Vander Meer to stage a comeback in 1940. If Vander Meer doesn't come back to his 1938 form, .the Reds will have to depend entirely on Mil-burn Mil-burn Shoffner, picked up from the Bees late last season, for their southpaw chores. Grissom spent three full seasons sea-sons and part of two others with Cincinnati after coming up from SVirt Worth In loW Um urn. 9 ', --'V "'s ' , y .-, : , , .;r?3t t' ') t Johnny Vander Meer . . . This Cincinnati pitcher will hava to make comeback this mi ion and carry the burden ai the main southpaw hurler. . games and lost 30 during his stay with the Reds. His most active year was 1937, when he won 12 games and lost 17 for a last-place club. Last year, with a pennant winner, he won nine and lost seven and had an earned run average av-erage of 4.09. What tha Yanks plan to do with Grissom, a temperamental fellow definitely on the screwball side, Is problematical. They may look him ova rln the spring or ha may wind up in Newark or Kansas City. Those ball players who coma to the Yanks off another major league club have a way of outdoing out-doing themselves once they get in the Yankee chain. right-hander, is likely to. stick with the Reds and may even win tOeeUaaa M om roUewtn Pw) ' ; ;i .-. ' ,;:.' j . iU-.).;. . ".?.V ;'. fru $ $ !" t y it-; -v .. v--V- f . mttr :1VfJ Wl JT. A"5. V 'l I ,. ' ' -v ' ' I , f T i "ft rr r . , ,: i V jV:Xi:'ixnx?.i - t V-VS WXw v !. -J.!it i 1 ' '9'l.!'(tilA "" ' i -I" j i. ..'.')'(,Ki.?!i'. - I !'..-. y;;'5 .7 s -m f s--t-.j.;. , a j j ,ut. , '--- :.;. ;(.'...' ' j Mr'X, ' . 1 "I , I r ' ' v Lefty Lee Grissom forsakes Cincinnati Red uniform for New York Yankee garb via waiver roule, while American league dub gnash their teeth over failure of Clark Griffith's measure mea-sure curbing Yankee trading within the league to put damper on New York power. Yanks Get Pitcher Via Waiver Route 'Continued From Pracsdtns Pss a regular Job. Since the Yanks hav had him In Newark three years, and have given him two try-outs try-outs with the New York varsity, they couldn't send him out on option op-tion any more. He is more than a 7500 pitcher, the price Grissom must be valued at since he became be-came a waiver-priced player when no National league club showed any interest in him. Bcggs Is a rubber-armed pitcher who s stuff breaks sharply like a fork-ball. He has had outstanding outstand-ing success pitching low, which is the National league way of chucking. He likes to work often. He's a graduate of Geneva college, where he was a star Javelin thrower. Wins tl, Lose 4 His best year was 1937, when he won 21 and lost 4 for Newark. He was with the Yanks part of 19.. winning three and losing two, before going back to Newark, where he won six and lost three. His record last year was 12 victories vic-tories and 10 defeats, with an earned run average of 3.80. Baseball circles' first reactions to the deal was: "What's tAe matter mat-ter with Bcggs?" When the Yanks get rid of a player everyone is skeptical of his ability, but Newark New-ark club officials said they believed be-lieved Bprrs was good enough to make any major league club except ex-cept the Yankees. |