New-York tribune., 1921-12-12
L.andis's Stand
On Draft Nav
Affect Minors
Question Up for Discussion
To-day; Rumors of Giant
and Yankee Trades
BY w. ]. Macbeth

world In the winter baseball league sets
La to-day all over town. Magnates great
and small are flocking into town like
tho gathering of the clans for the
never-to-he-forgotten worlds cham
r.onship series Of 1921. The club
owners Of the New Internati onal
Lcague will meet to-day at the Hotel
Comm odore.
Tomorrow the plutocrats Of the Ma
tionsl League will convene for their
annual pow WOW at the Waldorf-As-
toria. Ban johnson and his merry men
of the American League will scale the
back stairs of the Hotel Comp,odore
for the first real handshaking endur-
ancs contest Of several seasons.
Later on in the week there will be a
joint mseting of the two major leagues
at the Commodore as we'll as meeting
of the advisory board Of baseball
composed of Commissioner Landis and
Presidents Heydler and Johnson, Of
the National and American leagues re-
spectively) and another meeting of
this same advisory board with the dele
gates of the National Association, rep
resenting all the minor leagues. Be-
tween baseball and Christmas shopping,
then, the big and little fish of the ma
until well along toward Saturday at the
very earliest.
Bemoans Fate Of Groh
Most anybody who ever amounted to
a hill of beans in the great summer
sport had put in an appearance by yes
terday's twilight. At least they were
registered at some hotel. But If not
Christmas shopping they must have
been out looking at the store window
displays, for mighty few of them could
be found around the best known rem
devious. Branch Hickey and Billy
Veeck, chief moguls of the St. Louis
Cardinals and Chicago Cubs respec-
lively, were indeed flushed from q
whispering conference but quickly beat
it to cover through opposite exits.
Branch tarried long enough once more
to bemoan the fate Of poor Heine
Groh, who has escaped the delights Of
Cincinnati night life for long term
prison sentence with McGraw's worlds
champion Giants.
Dead wrong, dead wrong. this SELL
ing OF valuable players for cash by any
club that hasn't better prospect to
replace the ones sold. Understand, am
not criticizing or blaming McGraw.
National League fans here should be
proud of such sportsmen as own the
Giants. But bartering in cash is un-
fair to game which is already under
suspicion of cold commercallsm. The
boys got me wrong over in Buffalo
when they suggested l was piqued that
McGraw beat ME to Groh. l was never
IN the market for Groh or any other
of those 100000 beauties. Matter of
fact is that l blew the bankroll on old
Del Gainor. of Milwaukee, who is
thirty-hve if he is day. Del is brittle
and all that, but he can still run and
nj bor g.,
play at all, as Jacques Fournier Is an
iron man. We lost three of four games
when Fournier was out last season.
and consider Del q bargain at the
price, experienced as he Is"
No Chance to Get Hornsby
It was suggested to Branch that Nc
Graw might now turn his heavy guns
on the Rogers Hornsby redoubt. mot
chance sputtered Branch, "for Nc
Graw or any one else. The only way
any one can get Hornsby is to buy our
franchise"
just then boy came along paging
John j, McGraw for Garry Hermann
and Branch took it on the lam to see if
Eddie Rousch could possibly be lurking
in the offing
The New international League prom
1ses httie IN the way of excitement to-
day. Nothing but routine business
There might possibly be circuit
change, as Montreal is anxious to horn
back in, but every one of the spokes-
men OF the eight clubs swears there is
not chance to get out under a million.
The word Thousand" evidently has
become obsolete in Glass AA chatter
AT the international meeting. too,
there Is possibility of few warm
words on the draft. Jack Dunn, of
Baltimore, has been the prime in
stigator Of the anti-draft sentiment
Judge Lands believes the draft should
be restored universally and has so i'm
pressed certain followers of Dunn they
are said to be weakening. One Of the
craftlest politicians of the New Inter
national declared yeste rday that this
turn in sentiment has Dunn worried
and that Jack might not turn deaf
ear to proposals for his star chattels
at such prices that prevailed at Buffalo.
The story goes that McGraw is bent
upon securing Eddie Roush from the
Reds to fill the gap resulting from the
transfer Of Burns to Redland. Roush
Is trying to hold up Hermann for an
egorbitant salary and might be spared
now that Moran has Burns. Cincinnati
neeos players and McGraw is sup
posedly ready to supply same, if
purchasable, in exchange for Roush.
The wiseacres have an ear to the
ground In expectance of a wholesale
IaiU ny lns Hi2hts on Dunn's preserves.
If the gold OF S.oneham and McGraw
can lure away the Baltimore beauties
they viii. be turned over to Cincinnati
Tor Roush, rumor has 1t.
Our Yankees. too, arc accused of
:. evt designs on certain rivals. If COS
sap can be believed outfelder Bobbv
veach and Pitcher Howard Ehmke. OF
the Tigers, as we'll az Outfieder Sammy
kice and First Baseman Joe Judge. Of
the Senator's, will wear Yankee livery
5efore the bell rings next spring.
Shortstop Johnny Mitchell and certain
promising young pitchers are to be
turned over to the two Tigers, final de-
tails pending tho arrival Of Cobb from
California to day.
The Yankees we're after O'Connell,
for whom the Giants paid $4,000
&. o. b.. 1929, delivery. to use him
with Pec';inpaugh in a trade for Rice
and Judge. Washington wishes our
Sterling Peck to double In brass as
manager and shortstop down at the
Capital City. Griffith, of course, will
drive stiff bargain for two such
stars as are implicated in the deal, but
money will cover q multitude of fans
recrfminations, and our colonels are
nowise niggardly with cash except on
Christmas hats for pencil pushers.
Unless idle gossip blossoms forth
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