Show Dean Slated to Hold Down Post for Oaks Ogden Infielder May Per- Per Perform Perform Perform form As Regular In 1928 Race By fly EDDIE MURPHY OAKLAND O AILAND July 12 Special While owners of the Oakland baseball club wonder why It Is that they are not being consulted by the major league club owners who ho are arc supposed to be anxious to purchase Lynford Lary and Jimmy Reese front from the he Oaks they are arc reported to be fig figuring fig fig- figuring I using on a new keystone combination for their club next season Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics according to reports Is ready to out out- outbid outbid outbid 1 bid all other major league owners O In order to get Reese but he may find himself up against a stone wall If he 1 hopes to get Reese alone I Del Howard and Cal Ewing are none too keen on breaking up the kid combination for the sake sale of or making a 0 asale asale sale and th club that Is successful in making any kind of a 0 deal with the Oaks will probably have to take the pair Howard Hovard feels that It would be an Injustice to the kids to split them up as he believes they would be the sen sen- sensation sensation sensation of or the big show the first season they stepped up We Ve have seen scouts around but no major club owner O or scout has ap ap- approached approached ap- ap us is In the last couple of months about buying Lary Lacy or Reese and if it they did we would probably ask asic them to take both or none at all said Dell Deli Howard And now the new keystone combination combination atlon that Is supposed to be in the making making- for the local club Len Metz who Is still a II young fellow Is slated for the regular second base Job and Monroe Dean at present with the Og Og- Ogden Ogden den club of the Utah Ida 1 league for shortstop Of or course this com com- combination will wilt hardly work regularly around second base next season it I Reese and Lary are not sold Metz Mets has impressed Manager Ivan Howard Ho and his brother Del while Dean Is being heralded as a shortstop as good as Lary He lIe Is the sensation of or the Utah-Idaho Utah league and scouts making that circuit have regretted that the Oaks have strings tied to him |