The Washington times., 1913-01-02
BASEBALL TRADES
TO Be ENGINEERED
At BIG GATHERING
Chicago, Cleveland, and St.
Louis Believed To
Be Interested.
ZEIDER AND LAJOIE
NAMED AS PRINCIPALS
Tigers Buy Stanley From Browns
20 Understudy
Bush.
By SENATOR

Several big baseball trades are in the
air. and may be settled at the comin,;
meeting of the two big leagues in New
York February II, when the schedules
will be announced for the coming sea-
son. That is why there is peculiar in
terest in this approaching meeting of
the magnates.
It Is expected that the White Sox,
the Maps. and the Browns will figure
in big three-corne-ed deal Of epoch
making moment. It is known that
Larry Lajoie, the big smuggling second
oaseman. Is sure to be one of the
players in the big swap. and "Topsy"
Surner may be another Naplander 10
wear a strange uniform in 1918.
Jimmy Callahan wants Turner and
wouldn't be averse to grabbing Lajoie.
Harry Lcrd and Rolla Ze:der, Chicago s
gargoyle. are done with the South Side
club and fans, and are certain TO be
used IN the deal just who the other
players are remains TO be seen, but
this trade is almost sure to be en-
gineered during the coming meeting In
New York
La5oie. though stiI a great hitter.
is dead wood in Cleveland. He is
cut OF the game much during the year
because of sickness or injury, and the
end ie seen when his salary was cut
Joe Birmingham is seeking to build up
q team of youngsters and, therefore,
has no room for Larry or Turner
Zeider Good Man.
Rolla Zeider Is good ball player, but
the fans I'm the Windy City are sore
on him. He is hooted when he comes
to bat, and even when he steals base
he is greeted with jeers. 1t Is almost
a certainty that. under different coii-
ditions, Zeider would be one of the
most valuable players in the American
League.
Lords peculiar disposition is his
greatest drawback. Until last ye2r ne
was generally considered the best third
ba seman in the league, but ne got IN
on to below zero. Then he was shifted
10 left field, where he failed to shine to
any great degree. He continued to grow
worse as the season progressed and is
now on the market. 1t would not De
surprising TO md Lord with the Nap
landers in 1872
Manager Griffith will attend the
meeting. but not in the hope OF pull
ing on any trade, or even obtaining
any youngs;er. He figures he has
enough on his list now to occupy most
of his attention when the training sea-
son opens.
Minor. To Be There.
President Benjamin S. Minor is ex-
pected to attend the schedule meeting,
representing the Washington club with
Manager Griffith at Jimmy McAleer's
worlds championship banquet. How
ever, II is not yet decided whether or
not to have Griffith deliver his famous
lnonologue, How TO XIII Montana Deer
With Mere Stones"
II. L. Stanley. who tried TO make a
shortstop out OF himself yast year with
the Browns, has been sold TO the De-
troit Tigers at the waiver price, and
may be used by President Navin in
some deal as yet under cover. 1t
is hardly to be expected that Stanley
will beat out DOME Brush for the job
with the Tigers when he failed to make
much headway against Bobby Wallace.
Indeed, he may land with Providence.
the Tigers farm.
The sale Of Stanley has brought a
little profit to the Browns owing to
the increase in the waiver price in the
big leagues from $500 20 $3.50. He
was obtained from Burlington, Iowa,
for pitifuIly small sum and the differ
ence between that and the waiver price
is all clear profit to the canny boss of
the Browns.
Will Play Series.
The two st. Louis teams will play
their annual spring series before the
regular season opens next April. open
ing on March % and playing daily until
April 6. This Is a week later than the
series was scheduled for last spring,
and should find better weather than
was the case in 1912. So
The Cardinals returned from jackson,
Miss, for this series last year and found
the parks IN St. Louis covered with
snow. An entire week was wasted, and
Roger Bresnahan was disgruntled. In
deed, he didn't hesitate 20 say SO, and
this y believed Ia have been the st-rs-
ing point OF all his troubles with Mrs
Britton.
Lou Criger will remain with StoyalI
all year as assistant manager. He will
devote most of his labors 10 the battery
but his wise old head may
aid Stoyali through many a difficulty,
Important-A man I'm Utah says he
killed two deer and wounded a third,
all with the same bullet. Evidently he
has little something on Washington's
famous deerslsyer, c. c. Griffith.