The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-28
CUBS AND BUGS
 SWAP 3PLAYERS
Maranville, Grimm, Cooper For Aldridge, Gran
 tham, Niehaus

CHICAGO, Oct. 27.--The Chicago Ma tional league club today acquired Walter Maranville, second baseman, Charlie Grimm, first baseman, and Will bur Cooper, left hand pitcher, all of the Pittsburg Nationals, in exchange for Vic Aldridge, right hand pitcher, George Grantham, second baseman, and Albert Niehaus, first baseman, the lat ter recently purchased by the Cubs from Chattanooga. No money was involved in the deal.
 The game was spectacular from start to finish. Brown High and Ragan made the touchdowns for Cherokee. Both teams played excellent ball.
 The trade is the biggest of the winter season and, according to President Will liam Veeck of the Cubs, one of the larg- est ever put through in the National league.
 Aldridge had been a members of the Cubs for three years, coming from the Los Angeles Pacific coast league club.
 George Grantham came to the Cubs years ago from the Omaha Western league club, and was field captain dur ing 1923.
 Niehaus was one of the leading first basemen of the Southern association and was to have reported to the Cubs next spring. He is rightihander hitter.
 . Cooper Great Left-Hander
 In Cooper, the Cubs have obtained one of the best left-hand pitchers in baseball. During the last season he was one of four pitchers in the National league credited with winning twenty games, Vance and Grimes of the Dodgers and Carl Mays of the Reds being the others.
 Cooper participated in thirty-eight games and won twenty, losing fourteen. He is one of few southpaw pitchers who has control. In 270 innings pitched he walked only forty-one men and struck out sixty-two.
 Grantham hit .S15 for 127 games, and was one of the best base stealers in the league.
 Aldridge won fifteen games for the Cubs and lost twelve, pitching in thirty two contests.
 MaranVilIe A Star
 Maranville formerly played shor- stop on the Boston Braves. He went to Pittsburg and played shortstop for time, but after the acquisition of Glenn Wright by the Pirates from the Kansas City American Association club, Maranville was switched over to the keystone sack, at which position he made good at once, his work around the middle station being one of the out standing features in the Pirates pennant race during the past season.
 Charley Grimm is rated as one of the best first basemen in the National league. During the past season, his un- official batting average for 151 games was .2S9.
 WANT HITTING STRENGTH
 PITTSBURG, Oct. 27.-More hit ting strength to carry the Pirates through tight places in late pennant drives was the chief consideration of the Pittsburg Nationals in trading Walter Rabbit" Maranville, Charlie Grimm and Wilbur Cooper for Vic Aldridge, George Grantham and AL bert Niehaus of the Chicago Nationals, Sam Dreyfuss, treasurer of the club, announced tonight.
 For four years now we have been in the pennaut race right up to the last ditch," said Mir. Dreyfuss, land each year we have failed to pull through in a pinch. Lack of hitting power, it seems, has been the chief cause of our failure, and it was to overcome this weakness that we have made the changes just announced"
 Moore To Play Second
 Mir. Dreyfuss said that Eddie Moore, Atlanta infielder who joined the Pirates ast season, would replace Maranville 1t second base and Grantham, heavy litter, would appear in right field. Near the end of the last season Moore played in right field, having been kept