| Show AGAIN HE MAKES DREAM DREA i COME TRUE Gruff Griff Had in Mind Since Day Ball Began Wrecking Browns The baseball meetings In New York furnished more Important trades than they have produced In several years rears and the thc Washington club was on OD the I wInnIng end of oC the bIggest one when It gathered In George first baseman base base- 1 man of the St. St Louis Browns for Cor cash There had been IndIcatIons Indications IndIca- IndIca that Clark Griffith til would like to get ever e since Phil nails Balls announcement announcement an- an last summer that he would scrap his ball team Grift has a away awny way of making his dreams come true and this was one of at the times he did It It was hInted though that when Griffith and Barris set saIl for New York they had switched to a aplan aplan plan for getting or Blue from Crom Detroit In their quest for Cor a first base base- man If so their plans were spoil spoiled cd before beCore they could begin work on them when Blue was traded to the Browns The Idea g got t around and perhaps was meant for circulation at the thc meetIng meeting meet meet- Ing that Judge and Rice nice could be regarded regarded re- re as trading materia Joe Is one of the best first basemen of all times but Is often out of the game because of injuries while SI ler Is always on the job Babe Ruth Rutht Is quoted as considerIng Judge the better first baseman ot of the two and sa saying Ing that In a pinch either at bat or In the field he would rather have JUdge on his team than It Is expected that will take taken n a new lease ease of lIfe In Washington as the Drowns Browns were not exactly a happy family last summer He led the league In stolen bases last ason and hit and is s expected to better his batting batting bat bat- ting mark materially this year ear George has a habIt of leading the first basemen basemen base base- men In assists which Is highly ly Judge batted This year ear will be Sisters Sister's fourteenth In the big time lIe He is thirty four years old weighs Is tine five feet ten Inches tall and In 1 1922 22 hit for I the AmerIcan league record Cobb made the same but was beaten by a aI I mInor fraction by I |
