The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-11
PECK TRADED
TO SENATOR'S;
IS MADE BOSS
Washington Becomes Pennant Con.
tender Result of Three-Cor-
nered Switch.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER


! copyright, 1922, Dy Inc ArguS.)
| New York, Jan. 11.-Washington
has a new player manager, Roger
Peckinpaugh, and the American
league has new championship
factor in the making for 1922.
Peckinpaugh goes to the Senators,
Dugan to Boston with O'Rourke
and Acosta and Miller from Wash
ington to Philadelphia, and it is
said that Connie Mack will be re-
imbursed some where along the
| line with something more for the
reputed deficit of the value of a
player like Dugan as compared
with his share of the plums.
Peckinpaugh's loss to the Yam
| KEGS also did not seem to be SO
much when he went to Boston to
act as shortstop for the Boston
team, but appears like a lot now
| that he goes with a club which I'M
questionably has a fighting chance
! for the pennant and will have much
more of a chance if other deals will
| give Washington q little more
strength. Peck will give New York
a battle every time the teams meet
and as Washington always has
! been able to make the Yanks hump.
their prospects are much better
than they had been for sometime.
and Clark Griffith has put through
something that should help to give
i him one smile after his long effort
/ in Washington to produce a fight
/ ing factor in the American league
! race.
! Dugan is a great ball player and
will play short as well at Boston
as he would have played it at
/ Washington, if the trade had been
the other way. Where Grif is lucky
and where he has made ten-strike
! is in getting a live man on his in
/ field who can steer his team.
! 1t is known that Dugan would
not have played with the Athletics
this year in any event. Mack had
bec>le tired of his disposition to
I do as he pleased and had made up
his mind that he would get what he
could for him. The cash value of
/ Dugan has been rated as high as
/ $50, 900, but he is not worth any
/ such sum, because he cannot bat
we'll enough. On the other hand,
/ in the field he is one of the best of
/ the American league crowd and
Boston probably will see the posi-
ton of shortstop played as we'll as
if Scott were there, nearly so, in
any event
More trades are in the wind.
Cleyland wants another pitcher and
an outfielder. The Indians just get
rid OF one outtieIder but they had
/ to sacrifice him to get the frs.
! baseman whom they think will
make the infieid. McInnis very
likely will go to Cleveland to play
first IN spite of his outbreak at the
trade which takes him away from
Boston but he is a stubborn young
man with whom to deal. He is one
of the ball players who resents the
} rule Of baseball which gives the
player no voice in his playing exist
ence. Cleveland will find some diff
ficulty in landing either a pitcher
or an outfieIder unless they are
clever enough in the Forest City TO
wheedle a deal that will give them
/ Neach of Detroit
When the season ended at Pitts
burgh it is said to have left fric-
ton between Whitfield and Dreyfuss.
, If Brooklyn had let Wheat go, Pitts
burgh as well as Cincinnati would
like to get him. Cincinnati has
been after him and couldn't offer
anything worth while.
! Pittsburgh would not object to
Whitfield going to Brooklyn, but
Robbie isn't crazy over a trade of
/ Wheat for Whitfield. Maybe he
would take Carey for Wheat. Pitts
burgh will hardly accept that
What the Pirates have got better
than any other National league
club is pitchers and it will take
more than talk to get them away.
Schmidt, the Pittsburgh catcher.
! is on the market. He doesn't agree
with the pilot of the Pirates craft
He isn't on the market for fun.
| however, and any club that wants
| him will discover as much. Brook
| Ign desires Schmidt and sounded
| Pittsburgh out. They never did
strike bottom. Buggy, a Philadel-
phia catcher, who was let go to
! Portland, never will become A
major league catcher if he does
hit the ball over 800 He would
play basketball and it isn't good
for a player of his years of ser
vice.