The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-09
RED SOX WILL
 MAKE DEAL FOR
 NEW 0UTFIELDER

Boston, Jan. 9.-Now that Big Babe Ruth is gone. the Red Sox manage ment will proceed to go through with long considere plans for strength ening the outf1eld. It may happen, of course, that the next big deal will be pulled off in New York, for after F'razee returns to that city he will get in touch inm ately with Frank Navin, and as the owner of the De- troit team is still there waiting to do business, the fans may hear some thing that will interest them con- cfderab1y before the week is over.
 No time will be lost in securing the men that the Boston club is after.
 The Red Sox magnate is determined to prove his<good faith when he prom ised to start his team South with a formidable equipment. He knows of two men at least who are bound to help the Red Sox out and he will not consider price in his endeavors to corral them.
 As a matter of fact there is only one position in the entire aggrega- tion where reinforceme ent is needed. This is in left field where the Bat tering Ram played very satisfactory at Fenway Park, even though he did
 
 have filled the same berth at Fra zee's ball yard. One good right hand hitting outf1elder in that left garden will just about round out the full strength of the team. And it might as we'll be predicted right now that such an acquisition, sterling, every year 300 hitter, a right handed bats man besides, is due to be added to the Red Sox corps before many days Last year at this time the pitching situation was the big source of wor- rinent for Manager Barrow. Then the twirling corps, even though Mays and Ruth were included in the string was a very uncertain quantity. Ii was felt that Ruth did not want tc pitch and this feeling was strength ened before the Sox had been many hours at the Tampa training camp | With Joe Bush failing the team com | pletely, Sam Jones having his wors season in the big leagues, and Mays 1 deserting later on. the worlds cham. pions were completely out of the race before the Fourth of July.
 | But the outlook today is entirely l different. In the first place reports from Phdlade p1hia maintain that BusI has eradicated all traces of rheuma ! tism from his valuable wing. If thi: is really so it means everything to tht | team, for Bush in shape will win T. ! or 20 games at least. So earnest i l Bush in his promise of comebacl | that he will start for Hot Spring a week ahead of the others. He vii be all ready to open against Pitts burg a few days after the main bod. 1 of players reach the scene.
 Hoyt ought to be a pitching sensa tion this year, for he got lot of th experience he needed last fall. Rus sell has already proven his worth so has Herb Pennock, and all base balldom knows what Harry Harpe can do. With Sam Jones due fo a real com eback the Red Box have a the start a nucleus of six sp1endi pichers.
 But there are nine other twir1er in the spring. only six of which tn Sox will take South. Granted tha Barrow gets but two real recruit out of this number, he will then b as strongly fortified as any team i
 the country as regards hur1ers. An
 with the pitching problem solved, tn
 major portion of his trobuleS will b
 over.