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Cubs Give Three Players and Reported $100,000 for Diz mm SPORTS 107th Year. No. 348 Sunday, April 17, 1938 Free Press Want Ads Bring Best Results FINANCE The Deal eds Wallop Three Tiger Hurlers for 1 2-5 Victory i i ZZ I ZZ fn tr i Selway Yields Tiger Pennant Drive Depends on Him Dean Traded for Shoun, C. Davis and Stainback Pennant Values Shifted as Cards Accept Wrigley9 Offer Just Before Deal's Deadline By Irving Vaughan fa'), i wt- Jm sw CHICAGO, April 16 Jerome Herman Dean, the man who prefers to be called Dizzy because of a professional inclination to act mat way. now is a member of the Chicago Cub 1938 brigade.

The Oklahoman who bashfully admits hes pretty good and fre quently proves it was formally transferred from the St. Louis Cardinal pitching corps to the same department of the Cubs at 5 p. m. today in a surprising swap consummated by The deal went over when the telephone. Cardinal bosses decided to accept a Cub bid of Pitcher Curt Davis.

Outfielder Tucker Stainback, Fitcher (Lefty) Shoun and a wad of cash. The money angle was kept secret, but a guess of $100,000 probably would be close to correct. aw i i- i-1, iwvti fF The coming of the famous twenty-seven-year-old athlete into the ranks of the Cubs paints a new picture of the possible outcome of the impending National League penant race. The Cubs previously were lukewarm favorites, their weak pitching being regarded as unequal to the pace the Giant mound staff might maintain. The difference between the victories the frail Davis might furnish the Cubs and the decisions Dean may be able to pin down could easily prove the difference between second place and the World Series nextfall.

Cubs In making the swap was finan as many as Davis would nave won the regular 1938 outfield setup for the minors. have strengthened their most glar- r. --tsNjv. v. I I'1 -I Br Fr-w- 1 3 ft i -r Dean Davis By Charles P.

Ward DAYTON, April 16-The most improved player on the Detroit ball club at the present time is Don Ross, the lad who has taken Marvin Owen's place at third base. There isn't a great deal of difference between Ross and Owen as third basemen now and before many months have passed what difference there is may be in favor of The Boy Who Can't Stop Growing. Ross caught the fancy of the fans in the last three or four weeks of the training season. Before that he was pressing and not himself. "I don't know what's the matter with that Ross," said the peilexed Roy Cullenbine one day.

"He is a much better ball player than he seems to be. I know that." But Don finally got straightened nut and started to click. During the first few weeks of the training season it looked as if he could not go to his right for a drive as speedily as Owen could. Somebody must have suggested as much to Don. At any rate he suddenly started diving around at thud base.

Balls hit to his right were duck soup, He grabbed them over the bag and beyond the bag Once he knocked down a ball, the base runner was a dead pigeon. He has as good a throwing arm as any third gackcr in the league and can get that ball across the infield in a surprisingly short time, Bunts Are Wasted Against Don Ross A COUPLE of teams decided to 1 test the ability of Ross on bunts. They laid them down and he ate them up. A few American League clubs may try the same thing when the regular season renins hut after a few trials they '''ill give the trick up as a waste of time and energy. Ross can come fast and throw from almost a'iv position.

Don has been hitting, too. His average of .200 is good enough' for a third sacker, especially if he playing in an infield which boosts a Gehringer and a Green-beig. He should get better as he Kr's along for he is the type of fellow who must feel his way. I Ross comeback is a triumph of determination. Three years ago he rame up to the Tigers for the fiist time from Beaumont.

Then he was hailed as a find and a probable successor of the talented Owen. But he developed batting faults which, required years to change. He has changed now and seems ready to take charge. Greenberg's Fielding Surprises Dixie Fans TAThe.V Ross came up the first time, he was accompanied by Buddy Bates, an outfielding fel-ow Californian of great promise. Buddy could run like an antelope ar'd catch a fly ball almost without trying.

But like Ross, he dismayed a hitting weakness. The Timers sent him out for further f'Hsoning with instructions to try to overcome this weakness. But Apparently the task was too much for Buddy. He has been cut adrift permanently by the Detroit organ-i'atmn, nnd unless the Tigers Euos.wl wrong, wiil spend the remainder of his days in the minors nf which proves what an ertsin gnrne is Arniher surpno. to ti" Oupefmit League fans, at least I Hmy Cirenhrre He has hern "irg the ci'ru? belt faithful TVn to fajt i 3 I j.

ft 7 I 7T' Stainback Shoun I.uiin I a Long Homer' with Three On Greenberg Hits Fifth Circuit Blow in Three Days By Charles P. Ward DAYTON. April 16 Th Cincinnati Reds assaulted thre Tiger pitchers for 13 base hits today to score their sixth tri umph in the seven games played by the two clubs this spring. Th score was 12 to 5. Jake Wade, Tommy Bridges and Ed Selway were the hapless vie tlms of the Rhinelanders' fir.

Bridges and Selway being th most grievously assaulted. Tom my was touched for four hita an five runs in the only Inning worked, and Selway was straieii to the extent of four runs ani three hits In the two innings ha toiled. Wade, who worked the first i Innings, was much better than either of his successors. He was touched for four hits and thres runs in the fourth session, but ix the other five he shut out the Red! with only two blows, Auker May Get Call Bridges' showing probably meant that he will not be started in Tuesday's opener at Chicago. Up to today Manager Mickey Cochrane was unable to deeida whether to choose him or Elder AUKer.

tsut after Tommy showing today. Mickey probably will give Auker the assignment. louays exhibition was another" battle of home runs. However, the clouts were not quite so nu merous as in the recent game played at Portsmouth and Spring field. The two clubs made on! four today, three of them beinr made by the Reds and two nj these by Harry Craft, young out fielder.

Craft's second homer was th most valuable blow of the after noon, a drive over the left-field! wall with the bases loaded in tha eighth. Hank Spoils Shutout Ernie Lombardi's drive cleared! the left-field wall with two aboard, in the seventh, and Hank Greenberg's hopped the same barriep with two aboard in the eighth. It gave the Tigers their first run of the game. Al Hoilingsworth, a southpaw and Ray Davis, a right-hander, hurled for the Reds and wera touched for 10 blows by the Tigers Four of these were made off Hoi tingsworth in the eighth after had held the Tigers to five hits and no runs in the first seven frames. Greenberg, with a single and his fifth home run in three days, ani Roy Cullenbine, with a double an.i two singles, paced the Tiger hit ters.

Don Ross kept right along with the pacemakers with two doubles. Wade Has rienty of Stuff Wade flashed plenty of stuff lrl the first three innings of th battle, yielding only one blow and retiring four members of the opposition on strikes. But when Craft opened the fourth with a homer ovw the left-field wall he jarred Jake, and before he regained his composure the Reds scored twq more. McCormick followed the homer with a liner to Greenberg, but Lombard! doubled to center and scored on a single to center Billy Meyers. Cullenbine tried td pick Meyers off second base after Hoilingsworth had singled, but made a bad throw that permitted William to score.

The Reds subsided then until Bridges came on the scene In the seventh. Hoilingsworth singled tal left by way of greeting Tommy and then Goodman also singled. After Riggs had flied out and. Bridges struck nut Cooke, Craft walked, filling the bases. McCor mick singled, scoring Hollings worth and Goodman.

Reds Till! Double Steal While Tommy was concentrating on pitching to Lombardi, Craft and McCormick worked the doubla steal. Lombardi then made Tom my's cup of woe complete by hit ting a home run. A single, a double, a home run and two passes permitted the Reds to score four times on Selway in the eighth and enabled them to remain calm when the Tigers put across three runs in their half of the same session and two in the; ninth. Singles by Cullenblna anJ Walker and Greenberg's homer were responsible for the eighth inning runs. Those scored in tha ninth accrued from a double by Ross, an error by Davis and twoj bases on balls.

Tomorrow at Cincinnati Tigers will conclude their training season with another game with the Reds. Sunday night they mova on to Chicago to await the sea son's opener with the. White So Comiskev Park Tuesday. Phils Without Schareirt NEWARK, April 16 i V. Ceorse Schirem, the stiir iiiay te out rf the a.a.r.st TrcK-lyn Ties Uy He puUe.l a ner-.

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This is what caused Manager Charley Grimm to proclaim, when the transaction was closed, "It's a dandy." "It doesn't mean that a pennant is a certainty," went on Grimm, after getting his second wind. "There still are seven other teams in the league. One pitcher doesn't make a flag winner. But we now have a stop pitcher and that's something we lacked. Dean is the kind of a man who can win consistently and aid in keeping a contender from becoming panicky.

I'm tabbing him for 20 victories this season." Deal Traced Rack a Month The deal really got under way when the Cubs were training at Catalina Island last month. Owner P. K. Wrigley, who wasted a lot of time during the winter trying to get Van Lingle Mungo from the Dodgers, was smarting under the repeated statements from the writers that he couldn't win a pennant without pitchers. "Who are the league's outstanding asked Wrigley of Grimm.

The manager, not knowing what was in his employer's mind, gave the answer. Among the men Grimm mentioned was Dean. Wrigley returned to Chicago and apparently contacted the Cardinal bosses to determine whether they would listen to a proposition involving the star. They would. Clarence Rowland, nontitle member of Wrigley's baseball cabinet, was called home suddenly when the team was at San Antonio a week back.

Rowland reached Chicago, heard how high the Cub owner would go in a cash bid, and departed for St. Louis two days ago to arrange the final details. Act 3ust Before Deadline Wrigley gave the Cardinal executives, President Sam Breadon and General Manager Branch Rickey, until 5 p. m. today to vote yes or no.

Wrigley set a time limit because he was leaving the city. At a couple of minutes before 5 p. m. the phone call came into the ball park offices from St. Louis, and the voice at the other end advised Wrigley to forward his check and the three players agreed upon.

Dean may show up tomorrow, but Grimm doesn't expect to see him until Monday morning at Cincinnati. This spring Dizzy, who signed for a reported $17,500 salary after his annual holdout act, was neither a bust nor a sensation as an exhibition pitcher. The experts who watched him suspected that he was merely saving his arm for important business instead of wasting it as a barnstormer. Maybe He Was Coasting He pitched in the same indifferent fashion during the last half of the season. This was attributed to an injury by a batted ball in the All-Star game, but Dizzy, a foxy lad, probably fig ured that so long as his team was out of the flag race he would save up for better days.

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Germany, April 16 although he continued to put up Tommy Bridges is the nominal ace of the Tiger pitching staff, and Mickey Cochrane is banking heavily on him this year. Tommy will pitch one of the games in the opening series with the White Sox, either he or Elden Auker drawing the assignment for Tuesday's opener at Chicago. After a slow start due to an injured elbow, Bridges had his only bad inning Saturday. Cards Glum as OV Diz Departs (A. Max Schmeling, German heavyweight contender, let loose a barrage of rights and lefts to the face and body to score six knockdowns and gain a five-round technical knockout over Steve Dudas, of Edgewater, tonight.

The bout was SchmeUng's last "tune-up" for his championship match with Joe Louis in the United States June 22. and left little doubt in the minds of the 23,000 fans who packed Hanseaten Hall that the German is in prime condition. Least doubtful of all w-as Dudas, still dazed, though not cut, as a result of the battering he re- ceived. "Schmeling gave me the hardest licking I ever had," said the Amer ican. "I am certain he will knock nut Louis if he remains in his present condition." The Black Uhlan completely out- dasse(i Dudas.

sending him to the canVas gjx times for counls rang. ing from three to ejght before thj a m.rir-an'. mmuor Eiiiv Mrfar. threw in th towel Schmel ing weighed 194 1 i his rival 195. Dudas was the aggressor as the first round of what had been scheduled as a 15-round bout got under way.

He was throwing left and ri ht hooks to the body and leli.r, nut 0 rv CUIS Snu Slinging I lglllS SUtill A the steam from Steve's punches. A sharp to me forr Dudas to the floor for count, of six in the third iou: and from then on the Amerk yvaa steady c.i were too thoughtful to make wisecracks. Dean, still In the clubhouse, talked about the World Series. "The boys had the pennant money sewed up, and some of it spent," he commented. "Why.

it'll be too bad for us now I mean for the Cardinals for now I'm going to Chicago and I'll it ana spena u. Frankie Frisch came up. Diz shook his hand solemnly. "Frankie." the big righthander said. "I want you to know I've enioved playing for you." A player commented Diz turned.

"No it isn't," he asserted. "I really have." Frisch said, "Diz, I'm sorry to see you go. Be a good ooy ana i ta-Kf care 0f Frisch had 1 a long face. As he left rhir-i err, r.ffirial said. 'The Cards arc club to beat this year." Half a dozen players co erted I "You mean, 'That was the club i tn heat I i i i bench with a sad look on his face, was pessimistic.

"There goes our pennant and World Series money." Then Pepper brightened again. "I'll bet they use some of that dough to get Mungo." Dizzy said he'd leave for Chicago tonight. Martin was asked what Dizzy's arm was like this year. "Well, he's been sort of in and out so far," Pepper answered. "He hasn't been pitching his fast ball." Some baseball writers suggested perhaps Dizzy's fast ball was gone.

Terry Moore popped, "Don't worry about that. He'll have his fast ball all right when he gets to Chicago." Martin was almost inconsolable. He drew some consolation from joe jueowicK, wno torn mm, lo'ir Muncats ireppers corny nui-Diiiy VvaM njayfr oi i hst ra i won have any nioie competition from Dizzy." That was the only comic note of -the afternoon. The dresssr.s room was almost were silent f. Ml.

Th ar.J U.a ST. LOUIS, April 16 (A. In announcing the trade of Dizzy Dean to the Cubs here today, President Sam Breadon made the following announcement at the Cardinal offices: "To friends and supporters of the Cardinals in St. Louis and throughout the country: This deal has been thoroughly discussed by Mr. Rickey, Frankie Frisch and myself and we have agreed it was for the best interest of the Cardinal club." The Cardinals were an unhappy gang of ball players when they were told of the trade after today's exhibition victory over the Browns.

Dean said he was "glad to leave to go to Chicago but I hate to leave the fellows. I'll b-t they do all right by me there, he said, his face brightening. "I'll bet thev give me $10,000 more tW, I'm rr.akir.g Another ball player chimed in: "Yeah, and they'll probably give you a yacht, too, to ride around in on the lake." Ferrer Martin, slttirg pn a.