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Show Manager Frank Chance Has Been Panned Before Back In 1000 Chicago fans becain very angry when the Cubs gave a raft of players to Brooklyn for Jimmy Sheckard. Among the players Frank Chance passed over to Uie Dodgers were Pitcher Buttons Brtggs, Outfielder Outfield-er Boots McCarthy, Inllelder Jimmy Casey and Catcher Maloney. Cub funs didn't mind the acquisition of Sheckard, but they thought that Charles Webb Murphy, the uew Chicago Chi-cago owner, gave too much of tht club's strength for one man. It turned out that the coming of Sheckard proved Just the thing to convert con-vert the Cubs Into a championship machine. He helped Chicago win pennants pen-nants and world's championships, while the players Chicago sent to Brooklyn soon drifted out of the fast set and the transaction that Cub patrons pa-trons thought to be so daring turned out to be the biggest "sucker" trade in years. Perhaps history will repeat itself in this Pennock trade. Pitcher Murray, Inftelder McMillan and Outfielder Skinner have never been flrst-strlnj men, although, of course, they may Improve, but yet it must stand on tie records that the Yanks gave none of their important strength, yet received one of the best pitchers In the nation. |