The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-14
YANkS SET ON
BUYING vEACH
FROM DETROIT
Cobb Said to Be Willing tn Tsu,
SO If He Car Get Pitcher and
Infielder.
BIZ JOHN B. FOSTER
Downright. 1872. by The =

NCopSIiSh 49,, by The Argus
New York, IAN. 1.-THE "
York American league club fs a.
termined to talk VeaCh ont ~ J,
Detroit club into the ranks Of i.
Yankees. Colonel Rupert NJ ,Ss
American league champions .oig
today that New York viii ~
Veach and that is enough. W.
team is receptive in baseball II
also persuasive
Cobb has said so much sb,r.
Veach not remaining with Detr,b
that he hasn't much of apy Drosro-'
left except to transfer him and Is
willing to do so if he can pct
pitcher and an infielder for VIII
he is most clamOTous. He Deo5-
them, too, and is frank enourb ~
say so.
With the pitching strength who,
is boosted by the Yankees there i,
not team in the American lesgns
now that will give up a pitcba.
even one who is threatened viii
haying tinware tied to him. I'm
Dunn of Cleveland walls that he IA
willing to pay any kind of q Drics
for a pitcher Who can win q Ttns
something The American leagps
knows his fix, so Dunn saws. AMI
hasn't shown the slightest incli19.
ton to help him.
Too bad for poor Cleveland Tia
American league also lad the rem.
tation of not helping Frank Farrell
when he owned the New YorE
American league club and nm
Devery, the New York ex-chfef of
police, who was partner with Far
Tell, occasionally referred to the
niggardly ways of the AneFicar
league in language that would have
scalded the paint from a freight car
on cold day.
If Cobb can get a good outfelde-
for Veach he is making a trade
worth while because Detroit mus,
get an infield better than it had in
1921 if it expects to get back in the
race.
Cobb probably realizes By this
time how Hugh Jennings used to
feel when he had to put up with
some OF the little eCCentriciues for
which Ty was famous.
Cleveland has been depressed
ever since the two colonies pu,
through the deal that gave New
York Scott. Bush and Jones from
Boston. Prior TO that time Cleve-
land figured that it was in the
parade for 1922. When Ruth and
MeuSeI were thrown out of court BY
the Lands decisions the Cleveland
folks leaned back in their chairs
and just laughed themselves happy.
1t looked as il Cleveland had bet
ter than an even chance to win the
pennant in 1922. St Louis ta.
good about the decision also. Neve-
accustomed to say a word tina.
would give anyone cause to believe
that he was CverCOaiident. Bobby
Quinn remarked that ST Louis
would show something and ne made
the remark out loud after St Louis
got Danforth.
There has been some talk aboa.
a willingness on the part of Sew
York TO give up ShaWkey. He
doesn't stand quite SO high as he
did since the world series, in which
he picked up an eraser and rubbed
himself from his own map. w b
can pitch some in a season and if
Bush should have arm trouble again
and Jones shouldn't play success
fully on the loud pedal the Yank5
would be as bad on as il they never
had made a trade. Some FISK goes
in dispensing with Shawkey goods
New York, however. has mp
Noticed itself into a state Wbere
Veach looks good and the Colonies
can talk suavely when they want
things