Show Box Elder Wins Handily Over Infant Eleven I PITTSBURG MAY TRADE KIKI CUYLER TO CINCINNATI I HH x BS Pirates Would C Get t Hughey Critz an and Wally J pp P for Outfielder Rumor Has It Oct 14 It H.-It It wont won't be belong belong belong CINCINNATI long now no flow before fore the fall bl gossip about bout big league trades gets into full swing That Is an annual custom as soon coon as the world series rles is over This fall all the player most talked about as a. I trading material mat is Kiki Cuyler the tar star in-bad in outfielder of the Pittsburg Pirates The drastic action of Manager Bush ush and Owner Dreyfuss In keeping Cuyler on the bench while waging one ne of the toughest battles In the history of the National league to win wina a pennant and all during the past world orld series makes it seem a 0 certainty that hat Cuyler Is doomed to go elsewhere for or 1928 Unless both Manager Bush and Player layer Cuyler Culer are willing to let by- by bygones bygones gones ones be gones by-gones unless Cuyler is willing to admit publicly that he lie was wasn In n error thereby offering a 0 reason for for- or his continued benching it hard- hard hardly hardly ly seems possible that he will wm fit It into intoe the e Pirate up line-up for Jor next year ear Cuyler is a great ball player With hEm Im in the outfield outfield- between the Waner Vaner boys Pittsburg would have havene one one ne of the greatest trio of gardeners in baseball perhaps the best t since v J the days das of Lewis Speaker and Hoop- Hoop Hooper er of the Boston Doston Red Sox In addi addi- addition tion lion so valuable a fielder as Darn Barn Barnhart hart would be on the bench ready for any emergency Kiki Is excellent trading material Any MY club In the National league 1 would be delighted to make snake a 0 deal for him However Howe Pittsburg will in insist In- In Insist Insist on something worth while In tn return and only a a. few clubs can offer oHer such a package It is known that a deal with the J lf Ii I- i 1 R I I f tu I t u t CRITZ AND PIP Cincinnati Reds Is on the fire and Cuyler will go to that th club If ii Manager Bush can get the players he desires in the deal Realizing that the first and second I base side of his infield Is rather weak Bush Is angling with several clubs that have such trading material Hughey Critz is the player most de desired de- de desired sired aired by Bush Dush It is understood Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts burg has offered Cuyler to the Cin Cm- Cincinnati club for First Baseman Walter and Second Baseman B eman Hughey Critz Crits Cri tz Last spring Celia Critz held out for more money The trouble wasn't adjusted until after the opening of the season and when hen Celia Critz reported he was in far from front playing condition He lie early suffered a charley horse as well as other Injuries that kept him out of the line Ills His absence from the game was one of the reasons for the terrible start made by the Reds It would be con- con conservative sen to say that Crits's failure to play his game cost the Reds at least at the gate because of the clubs club's failure to be In the first di di- di division vision Its It's possible that status with the club owner and manager may be very much like that of Cuyler Regardless there Is la a deal on the fire tire for an exchange of Cuyler for Critz and which would give Pittsburg desired strength at two weak spots Its consummation is entirely up to the Cincinnati club Incidentally another deal hinted between the two clubs is an exchange of Catcher Earl Smith of the Pirates for Bubbles Hargra es of the Reds Copyright 1927 NEA Service Inc Ine |