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Show BIG TRADING TIME OF AMERICAN LEAGUE New York. Nov 1 What will the i harvest be? The big trading time of the American league year !s at hand the annual meeting, which will be held In Chicago next Thursday It has been the ogiif in the past for the magnates to engineer their biggest big-gest swaps at this time Deal al-rond- hanging fire are closed up. others are set In motion and still others are put through on the spur of the moment. in a number of cases the managers -s well as the club presidents make It their business busi-ness to be present and in most of the remaining cases, the magnates are under Instructions from tblr field generals as to what sort of deals they shall attempt to swing In tact Hale else Is likely to be done at the meeting, beyond the transaction ol routine business in which Ban Johnson John-son will say what he desires and the magnate's will vole unanimously for it. Indications are that there will be aboMt the usual amount of bartering though there probably will be no such big affair as the hance-Tlnker-t'orrlden transaction that resulted In new managers for two clubs the Cincinnati Nationals and the New York Americans Every club Is likely like-ly to be mixed up In the Interchange of players, either receiving or delivering deliv-ering or both About the only team thar will rest on Its oars so far as going after new men h coneemed is Connie Mirk's band of world's champion cham-pion Athletics Yet even the Athletics Ath-letics probably will be in on the general gen-eral doings, for it Is likely that when President Shlbe and President Far-rell Far-rell of the Yankees get together the final details of the deal by wn ch Outfielder Jimmy Walsh goes to th -latter will be fixed up It Is learnt-i from an authoritative source that, despite partial denials by both sides, this transaction Is a certainty. |