Show speaking peaking of sports deal for dean recalls jinx on cub trades by GEORGE A BARCLAY M TORE ORE words have probably been iva written about the dizzy dean deal than any sporting event since aly 0 dempsey tunney f ight fight in all ad L vr biting theres a little word if that is going to be important in the months to come for if looms mountain sized in the trade that brought dean to the cubs in return for in cash and pitchers curt davis and clyde shoun and outfielder george if dizzy returns to great pitching 9 form he will deserve the title ot of beauty phil K wrigley will be called the david harum ot 0 baseball and cub fans can start ordering their worlds series tickets if dizzy causes charley grimm no jitters if he settles down to busi X W X 40 jerome dizzy dean ness mess if he pitches for the best interests of the team if he gets along well with his teammates and his employers then chicago will have cause for rejoicing aids box office the cubs have acquired a great but eccentric pitcher a baseball baseball personality more colorful than anything since babe ruth and a box office attraction of first magnitude but at best he is hard to handle some authorities have viewed the deal with skepticism for branch rickey and sam breadon are nolea for their canniness on the other hand the cub record on trades in the last five or six years has been one headache after another the dean trade may break the jinx only one of those deals was really satisfactory and in the process the cubs tossed about a million dollars in cash and players around the league that was the trade that brought tex carleton at present top pitcher on the staff to the cubs from st louis in the off season of 1934 in return tor for pitch t 61 wn am chuck klein babe herman berman ers bud tinning dick ward and a bundle of cash worst bust of an all was the chuck klein deal the cubs laid out plus three players to the phillies for the national leagues then prize slugger his cleanup attempts were pathetic and three years later a disillusioned management traded him back to the phillies along with pitcher fabian kowalik and cash for curt davis and ethan allen alien allen alien was ot of little use and went to the st louis browns davis developed brittle brittl e tendencies that kept him out of action and made him an in and outer another deal that soured was the one that sent lon warneke to the cardinals in return tor for pitcher roy parmelee and fist baseman rip collins parmelee has gone to minneapolis and collins up until now has not played the brand of ball expected of him by charlie grimm camilli headache the dolph camilli don hurst burst swap was fine business for everybody but the cubs particularly in view of the fact that hurst last the season out and camilli became a fence buster the babe herman deal added another sour note he came to the cubs from cincinnati for a reported and is now at jersey city another trade was the one that sent infielder woody english and pitcher roy renshaw henshaw to brooklyn tor for infielder lelder linus frey frey far from topnotch top notch caliber was shunted to cincinnati this spring english is still an able ball player but dismissing an all this gloom you cannot help but regard this latest deal with optimism it if he does nothing else dean will draw a good share of his purchase price back into the treasury via the turnstiles turn stiles in a few ew games baseball centenary one hundred years ago this spring col abner doubleday laid out the first baseball diamond on the commons at cooperstown Coopers town N Y and the first game was played in the early days baseball was called one old cat and was then re christened although Double days diamond has remained to this day he did not perfectly devise rules at the same time the first set of rules was formulated and played under by the knickerbockers of new york city who were the first team to wear uniforms they began to play regularly in 1842 and a few years later appeared on the field in blue trousers and white shirts in the early days there were eleven p players layers to the side including two shortstops short stops and two second basemen they have innings in the old days the first team to score 21 runs won the game and the batter could keep chasing around the bases and score as many as two or three runs on one hit bit until the ball was found the first extra inning game was played in 1852 the knickerbockers beating the bothams 22 to 21 the game was popular during the civil war and there were hot contests be tween selected teams of the unior union troops and the confederate army the games were played on neutral territory and attended by thousands of soldiers A al J reach was the first ball player to ge get t a salary and the first to be sold from one club to another brooklyn sold him to philadelphia in 1864 for the cincinnati reds were the first team to employ all salaried ball players george wright the shortstop was the star and drew down 1400 moody comeback FF to wimbledon Wimble don in quest of her 0 OFF eighth tennis championship as well as the first step in an international comeback campaign is mrs helen wills moody the story still persists that helens ultimate poal goal Is the ranks of the professionals it was whispered a while back that she very nearly turned pro and joined up with a troupe that features fred perry and eusworth elisworth vines then so the tales go she considered her long layoff might be a detriment and resolved to fight her way back to the top of the heap in the amateur ranks and then as the ace woman player of the world demand a tat fat contract from the impress ario arlo of the pros this would all seem to add up except that helen may find her path A 0 helen wills moody to the comeback filled with a number of tough hurdles not the least of which are her arch enemy helen jacobs and helen marble who may be playing sensational tennis again in a short time then there is that polish juggernaut jadwiga bedre howska who has a habit of steam hollering roll ering any opponent who shows fight have you noticed ireat THAT there are a good many athletes A who are standouts stan douts at one game who are also mighty handy at others that would seem to indicate that athlete proficiency is an innate quality most big league ball players are expert golfers babe ruth was one ot of the standouts stan douts in this thia direction as is sammy byrd on the other hand walter hagen lawson little bobby jones and tommy armour are also expert marksmen with guns and pistols craig wood and eddie loos the figure and speed skating stars are equally at home on a golf links as are ellsworth vines and fred perry the tennis stars johnny the swimmer and mush march the blackhawk hockey star jim crowley the coach at fordham who was quite a football player in his own day anddore and more than average success as a coach is a good enough handball player to have competed successfully in ia championship tournaments na ments there are plenty of other examples glenn cunningham don lash johnny woodruff and joe mccluskey all of whom set speed records in track events are better than average swimmers birger the worlds ace skiler is a champion high diver its the same way wa with famous girl athletes of whom the he standout example is babe did eleanor sears and mar K Brow browne are as good or vetter b etter ai four or five sports than are mos male athletes glenna collett vare the golfer is an expert at bl astin crockery pigeons 6 0 western newspaper union |