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7., Im M60O For Cltusifird Ad Rrsulti BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1937 Cubs Seem to Have Best Chance of Getting Mungo From Dodgers Double Celebration Hold Grimes to Give Fans Plenty of New Faces Clyde Hatter's Election Defeat Put Death a Blow Bill McKechnie Back To Cochrane the Baseball Wars Tigers Manager Was Counting on Southpaw to Aid Mound dorps It wa.s a balmy, starry evening in July in 1029 and the waves were lazily lapping the shores at Summerville. Sitting in a rocker, I was watching Bill McKechnie swing back and I forth, back and forth, on a glider, gazing rather at somnolent old Ontario, says Jack Burgess of Rochester. In Lineup Next Year When the echo of the last pigskin booted over the crossbar fades out in the distance, look for the Brooklyn Dodgers to rush into print with a big deal involving Van Lingle Mungo ace right-handed pitcher and stormy petrel of the club. Every team in the National League has felt out the Flatbush entry on what it expects in exchange for the sage of Pageland. S.

I Col. William Terry of the badly i I fl I lim beaten New York Giants in the LC011ir(l UUt World Series, realizing his greatest need is pitchers, is willing, accord- -j- ing to latest reports, to part with Af, Aif Ka A Outfielder Hank Leiber, Inliclder 1 Ul llCUCl llUlC When i League sea- i offic early part Mickey Cochrane of gers. tin one happv Pirate Rookie Doesn't Expect i iti Ingratt Mel Ott and Pitcher Hal Scliumach- ir the big fireball occasion. There tightness about hi To Make Grade hat made you think he WU foiled. But he waan lie thought it meant the end of a long siege of misfortune that had served as a bugaboo for he and the club general.

Mickey had been skulled and narrowly escaped beuig killed by an accidental pitch delivered by Pitcher Bump Hadlev, and numerous other injuries had prevented the Flivver City club from giving the New York Yankees a tougher fight for the pennant. Just when Mickey was ready to sit back and let the campaign of 1H38 repose peacefully in the pages of hLatory, the old jinx bobbed up again to annoy him. It came the death of Pitcher Clyde Melno Hatter from heart disease in the automobile of hi.s father with whom he was riding at the time. Hatter was a particularly promising southpaw recruit, who had been out on option with the Toledo club Lefty Armstrong Is won pennaxtfiuk Modest hut Has Good record on Sundlot penwwt winL ever, the Chicago Cubs seem to have the Inside track on Van. They have propositioned the Dodgers on a deal that appeals to Manager Burleigh ceidhuTfar.

The Windy City club has offered Outfielders Prank Demaree and Tuck SUiinback. Shortstop Billy Jurges. who incidentally Ls a Brook-1 lyn boy. and Pitcher Tex Carleton. Grimes objects to Carleton and will mast likely make the trade if the Cubs include Pitcher Clay Bryant instead.

GRIMES DETKRMINEI) TO REVAMP Ll'B From current reports around the Titusville, Oct. 23 iPi Wha' does a 17-year-old country boy look forward to when a big league baseball club reaches out and signs him into Its farm system? Raymond (Lefty) Armstrong, who will try his pitching talents for one With Senators Ex-Dodger Picked Up ly Clark Griffith in the Recent Player Draft Special to The Eagle Washington, Oct. 23 President Clark Griffith of the Washington Senators hopes that history repeats for him in the rase of Pitcher Emil Leonard, formerly of the Brooklyn Dodgers, whom he recently acquired in the draft. It was the second time in three years that the Old Fox drew a bead on a player in the. minor league pool and brought him In 1935 he gunned for Pitcher Pete Appleton, alias Jablonow.ski.

and landed him. This year he put his irons in the fire lor Leonard and drew the right-handed knuckh ball artist. What Griff is wondering is whether Ennl will turn out to be the same type of moundsman that Appleton proved to be. The big Belgian from the coal mine regions, taken off the the Atlanta Crackers of th i I' v. had a fine past league units next Summer, answered Cu.iirai.c Now he was managing -i minor loop outfit.

Vea It wai a a pride numbing slide. You could hear that intake of breath and you watched for the mouth, to r.jx an I words to flow You know. he bejan, "I'm pretty well fed up on baseball. All niv tUe year away from home, missing Mm nicest things of life, having to almost get acquainted with my own children-and all for what? He paused. There a hardening around the corners of the mouth.

Something of a glint was in the eye. I kept for I wanted fii the ixrtsider to bolster his hurling cirps next season as he appeared to have acquired the xllsh lie lacked when he came up before. Looked Promising The pitcher, who was known a.s "Mad Hatter" had all the requisites of a successful big leaguer. He had a good fast ball, a fine of curves and a baffling i hange of pace, which he knew how strikeout king, but he was as wild as a March hare. It was because of this that the Tigers sent him down me question laconically Well.

I'll probably stay with them for one, maybe two weeks, then they'll send me home." But what Lefty wouldn't for himself, his record would. Playing this season with the American Legion Juniors of Titusville, one of the strongest nines in the northwestern Pennsylvania district he 1. Pitched 86 scoreless innings out of 106. 2. Fanned 16 batters in one game.

3. Struck out 155 batters during 4. Struck out nine in succession In a league contest. 5 Pitched two one-hit games, both Yes. I'm fed Oscar Vitt.

newly appointed manager of the Cleveland Indians, had a double reason for celebrating at his home in Oakland, Cal. Vitt was already celebrating his 22d wedding anniversary when he received the Cleveland managerial post. (Wide World photo.) Do you know what I in going do?" Our heads dragged a negative, wanting to disiurb hi, tram thought. TOSSFI) IN RING BI KICKED OUT "Well. I'm going bark to Wilkll burg.

Pa. I'm going to run for to tax rollector. It pavs $7 000 a i the bushes to develop the neces-iry control. Clyde's heart had evidently been rn with Dodgera, i Flat bash full i cept that a catcher and an inflelder present a very much revamped ensemble next season. The shifting of Outfielder Johnny Cooney.

Infield-ers Junmy Bucher and Joe Stripp and Pitcher Roy Henshaw to the St. Louis Cardinals for shortstop Leo iLippvi Durocher, was only a forerunner to future ivory manipulations. The way was paved away back in August when Shortstop Tony Malmcvkv was sold to the Rochester farm of the Cardinals. Manager Frankie Frisch is sweet on Mali-nosky and Is said to be counting on Hie Pole to replace Durocher at shortstop. As part of the trades between the clubs.

Outfielder Pepper Martin will come to Brooklyn along with Outfielder Enos Slaughter of the Columbus Red Birds. American Association pennant winner and lead-nig hitter of that circuit. As the situation now shapes up Grimes intends to start the 1938 season with Budd Hassett on first unless he can trade the man with whom he had a flareup last season, to the Phillies for Dolph Camilh; either Durocher. Red Brown, El-wood English or Pete Coscorart. purchased from Portland of the Pacific Coa-' League on second; Jurges at and Harry Lavagetto at third.

STILL HAS CONFIDENCE IN BIG JACK WINSETT Although he failed the club miserably last season. Grimes is still convinced that Jack Winsett has it in were slow in fielding bunts, allow 1 six i. Never allowed I HI 1936. Florida Bills Ten Important lotel and collapsed. He and finished out the Ml who was 29 years old, nth the fatal attack from Danville, Ky, to Violets and Raiders In Feature Gridiron Act Next Saturday Griff lias a lot of confidence in his now addition to the firing squad.

"I think," explained Griff, 'that Leonard ill be a good relief man. He is a burly fellow who can stand I the wear and tear of a tough cam- I pawn. That is what we need-! Armstrong has studied carefully the exploits of another southpaw. Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants, and also has thrilled at the leap from obsrurity of another farm bov Bob Feller. Lefty has a good fast ball, but relies mainly on exceptional control.

Yosemite. Ky. Golf Tourneys Major Events for the toward the end and for In satisfied il kn.imed Dutch Winter To Be Held at Games Within Driving Distance East Coast Resorts U)( XI. Shenandoah Club Plays Eagles Today New York I Colgate Yankee stadium City College Providence Lewisnhn Stadium Bk klyn College Nassau HoMra It kiwi oil. Stadium 71- (I Amies Wagner Farmingdale, I IT- 1 In hvered in an If the Cub Martin.

it out for first call v. on lied Sox The schedule-plotters arranged a bare, bleak Saturda; ext week for metropolitan lootball fanciers. With three ie city's bif? attractions on tour, only New York U. remain home to appease Saturday's thousands, and the Violet wil well at the box-oihee with tricky, attractive Colgate as ai Luke Hamlin will The veterans Fr Ben Cantwell, 11 able to Emil didn't do anything of them in the Southern' this season judging duty. from his record of 15 victories and lar work-i 7 defeats.

However, the big fellow Jumbo and Bruin Square Off Next Phils Land No-Hit Pitcher in Draft habihta Matt' Icalpn Alia Nahrm F.If..t Pi-, i.e. Cohen and BUI Post-del. Nahem a lornuT Hru.ikiv i o.iei,;- rstabll-hed an enviable leeor the Clinton Club, and O-hc southpaw, who several ear a Jayhawkers Wan! To Halt Spartans will be afforded every oppor-y to prove that they belong cje Goodwin Resell. i organized ball wit iter joined Mobile in shaped up well L'Lsar. and III and Quiia Georgle Fallon, a product 1933, York, Hall High School; Bert the Dodgers acquire Chapman.

Nick Polly; 1M4 he appeared Radtkc. Brooklyn, many as Reds Record at Home Worst in 15 Years Schulte Ball Buy a Whole lull Bush wicks Pla tea recalls that I the Cardinals, is succeed Clark already under i Ban Farmers in Two coumi Pepper Martin Makes Collection of Gadgets JOe Stripp, so the news eventually wind up on tin the Giants The Oi have had Stripp on waiv develops that the Dodger well thai they already r. i. 10 to 14: Lake 1 For Additional Sports See Last Page of This Vt.ircli 4: Notre Dame it- rock Ma the Hisbte worse than M.x'h As it wn.s. luM in Beach.

I road aaiast nnyhty Minnesota, I Arizona-New Mexico League club, I the last ten tames and plunked (ball mentor at the real nice one. too. And I working Superior, Wis. I on my midget racing car again.".