The New York herald., 1922-02-08
Strunk Likely to Become
Yank at Capital To-day
Trade Is Expected at American
League Schedule Meeting
in Washington.
by DANIEL.

What Is the American League going
to do at its meeting in Washington to-
morrow" we asked Col. Huston last
light before no entrained for the capi-
Y with Col. Rupert and Ed Barrow.
Why. adopt the schedule, of course" he
rened. "And is that all?" we queried
Vel. there may be two or three other
lintters." he added with a laugh. .It
nv turn out very interesting session
roSNew York"
seems quite certain that the two
or piee other matters" will sink The
auohsn OF the dates to a minor place
IN tp chronicle of the days develop
iiiehg The owners of tho Yankees
! wno fih .be Joined by Miller Huggins
this forhng. have gono with tho de-
ierniFtioli to brirg a new outneider
OUT oTpaconclave at the capital. They
VIII ~ Nanother brave effort to land
BOD IN of tho Tigers. and IL that
nlnch diSgsed deal cannot be swung
they VIII 3, after Amos Strunk of the
WINE SoN We would say that Strunk
will be thdnu.
Charley CoIsskey Is willing to trade
S,runk' pu " wants pitchers. and the
to give him WIN he REQUIRES. However.
there may beanother club In tho
arrangement, apt,er club Which Is hot
after shortop and would not be
averse 70 signi1S Johnny Mitchell of tho
New forks. 1Nas other club may be
Detroit and theAagain 1t may not.
Tigers NM Mitchell.
Thus far Fran; favin and Ty Cobb
of tho Tigers hav' no appeared enthusi-
astic over the anlae overtures. but
with the date for stating training i'm
minent they mayprryn more tractable.
They need a shortsto. and cobb thinks
that Mitchell would flltie bill. Ty says
that he has about maceup his mind to
take chance on RignE who was with
Fort Worth last seaSen But Tyr,ls
KNOWS that Rigney is MY an untried
prospect and that he mEt'plug up that
gap at short even at th expense of
little power IL the 1igts are to start
the campaign with aything like a.
chance to climb out OF taesecond divi-
sion. With FIagstcad avalable. Cobb
can afford to let veach soto land an
infielder like Mitchell.
However, we imagine that be Yankee
Officials are not banking on Ding busi-
ness direct with the Detroit Glib. Navin
and Cobb dislike the idea OF ssengthen-
ing the New Yorls in any Wy, SO it
ig toward Strunk that the Yan1le owners
most likely will bend their efbrts this
afternoon.
Strunls Is not the outneldet he was
in his heyday with the Athl{ics, but
he still Is fast and vigorous en,ueh TO
meet the requirements of the Yansees.
particularly if they should need his
services only until May 20. Just where
the Yankees will get pitchers for Coris-
key. especially now that they have AZ
nounced that ShawlSey Is not to ,e
traded. remains to be seen. But tie
possibilities are many.
Detroit Wants Dugan. \
We understand that If tho Tigers do
any business with the Yankees it will
be only after they have failed to wrench
Joe Dugan from the Red Sox. Harry
Frazee left for the capital with the
Yankee trio. and said that he had NTH
ing in particular on tap. but always was
willing to make a trade if the Boston
club could be strengthened therrby
Dugan we hear, has not yet been signed
by the Red Sox--and stranger things
than a shift, such as would send him
TO Detroit. have been seen even in
this OFF season.
Among other matters, the American
League will discuss the rejection OF the
draft by the American Association and
the Pacific Coast League, and the ap-
parent certainty that the International
League next Monday will follow the
example of its companion Class AA cir
cults. Clark Griffith will introduce n
resolution calling for a definite break
between the recalcitrant minors and the
majors-a resolution similar to hat
which Charley Ebbets brought up at
the National League session hero in
December
Griffith docs not propose that there be
any boycott against the Class AA
minors. But he does want the majors to
throw them out of organized baseball
There is n strong probability that the
American League will call in Senator
Pepper of Pennsylvania, who has been
the legal aviscr of organized baseball
for many years. and who last week
scored the minors for their stand on
the draft. 1t seems likely that there will
be another joint meeting OF the majors
this month to decide on further action
on the draft.