The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-24

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In 1918 the Yankees unloaded Slim
Love, AL Walters, Ray Caldwell, and
Frank Gilhooley for Duffy Lewis,
Dutch Leonard, and Ernie Shore and
SIS 900 in hard cash.
In 1919 Babe Ruth kicked over the
traces and was sold outright to the
Yankees for s137,500. Later that
same season Frazee sent Carl Mays
to the Yankees for $4,000 in cash,
Allan Russell and Bob McGraw.
In 1920, keeping up his annual
generosity, Frazee sent Schang, Hoyt,
Harper, and McNally TO the Yankees
for Del Pratt, Herb Thormahlen, Sam
Wick, and Muddy Ruel.
Times Have Changed.
How times have changed! Back in
1908 or 1909 John i. Taylor, then
president of the Red Sox, traded
Uncle Cy Young, the veteran pitcher,
to Cleveland. At that time Young
was fading fast, and the Boston club
got some money and a couple of
players for him. IL my memory is
right. But the Boston fans declared
boycott on Taylor. They called him
traitor, among other things. i
know all this because l was a sports
editor in Boston then.
But times have certainly changed
since then. In addition to those
players sent to New York, just recall
that Iris Speaker, Joe Wood, and Les
Nunamaker were sent to Cleveland,
while lilly Walker and Larry Gard
ner were sent to Philadelphia. Yes,
and Harry Hooper was sent to Chi
cago.
If the Boston Red Sox had always
been a tail-end ball club, Frazee
might have an argument, but in 1918
they won the championship of the
world from the Chicago Cubs. 1t is
this 1918 ball club which has been
scattered all around the league, most
of the good ones going to New York.
Food for Thought.
There is much for thought in all
this for Washington fans.
1t Is true that President Griffith
went to the Buffalo and New York
meetings and returned without any
additions to his roster but he still has
Walter Johnson, George Mogridge,
Joe Judge, Bucky Harris, Sam Rice,
Zeb Milan, and Pat Charity. He
! didn't let go of the players he actually
| needs.
Had President Griffith followed
styles set by his predecessors in the
Capital, now shown to advantage by
! Harry Frazee in Boston, he would
have snapped all these players for
lemons and money, which is what
Frazee has done.
The New York Yankees, handicapped
10y the absence of Babe Ruth and Bob
Meusel until last of May, should hold
their own against every club in the
league. now that they have strength.
ened their pitching staff. They needed
pitchers more than anything else last
season. Now they have them, thanks
TO Harry II. Frazee, superintendent of
their farm in Boston.
Hurts the League.
Two powerful blows have been
launched against the American League
within a few weeks. The first came
| from Judge lands when he suspended
Ruth and Meusel until May 20. That
means that much of the attraction for.
merly offered by the Yankees will he
missing for the first six or seven weeks
of the 1922 campaign, which is about
one-third of the season.
! The second, a more deadly blow, is
| Frazees. The Boston superintendent
of the Yankees has taken his club out
Of the running at once and added
another city to Philadelphia as a poor
! town for the American League.
| Largely because of the scandal of
$40 Chicago is not as good an Ameri-
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