Evening star., 1927-12-06

N IEW lORk, DeceHlDer ".-SeN'
eral minor league managers
VI will spend the present week ut
4 Dallas, Tex, where the minors
are holding their annual meet
ing, trying to make arrangements to
obtain screly needed players from the
majors when the sitting process be
gins in the Spring.
The Buffalo club. which won the
International League pennant this
year, will be hard hit when Spring
comes around. Between the players
that were taken by the major leagues
and those that were owed to the big
leagues, the Bisons will have to begin
the pennant-winning process all over
again Their outfield, infield and
pitching staff will be cleaned out Wig
orously.
The new Montreal club Of the In
ternational League needs players, as
the assortment sent to Montreal from
Jersey City will not carry the new
Canadian club very far toward SUI"
cess. George Stallings, who will man
age the Montreal team. will very like
ly seek to make some arrangement
with major league friend by which
he can get assistance for next season.
The Toledo club. which won the
American Association pennant this
year. has heen slaShed right smartiy
by the loss of players and Manager
Casey Stengel will he glad to go on
with some ma ior organization that
will help him. The New York Giants
have worked to some extent with To
ledo and may aid Stengel in 1928. as
the Giants will play everything close
to try TO win pennant and will not
be likely to keep young players who
cannot heip Them
Kansas City Hard Hit.
Kansas City has been hard hit by
the changes of the Winter and that
team will welcome a third baseman
and other infielders and outfielders.
Kansas City has been smart enough
to claim Howard Freigau in advance
and il the Brooklyn club does not
wish to use him in 1928. he will go
back to Kansas City. where he was a
big help in the past season.
The Philadelphia Athletics have
taken Ossie Orwell. the combination
star pitcher and hard-hitting out
fielder, from Milwaukee, and that
means a hunt for more pitchers for
Milwaukee Connie Mack has a good
pitching staff for the Athletics, but he
never is satisfied with a staff that is
merely good. He is constantly trying
to put together a corps of pitchers
that win embrace four men of the
quality of the rugged pitchers he has
had in the past. Then he will enter
the race for the American League
pennant with more confidence than
ever.
Mack has sent Chick Galloway to
Milwaukee in part payment for Or
vol. Galloway should make the best
shortstop in the American Association,
although he has been sagging in the
American League for two years be-
cause he could not bat hard enough
10 help the Athletics win a pennant.
Big Prices Asked.
This Dallas Econvention may deter.
mine whether Larry and Reese. the
smart young infielders of the Oak
land clubEof the Pacific Coast League,
will come to one of the jor league
clubs in the East. Two clubs are
ready to try them. but the price put
on the Youngsters Is a high roller, and
Cal Ewing. the Oakland owner, has
said that he will not send one of the
players East withbnt the other.
Ewing began by asking more than
100000 for both players. but it isn't
in the wood this year. The price paid
for Chalsner Gissell. the Portland.
Greg, shortstop, BY the Chicago White
Sox is apt to be the high-water mark
of THIS season, and that sum, said to
be around 100000. is a big venture
upon a kid player who has not had as
much active experience as either Larry
or Reese.
tCopyrisht 1897,