The Washington times., 1928-12-07

Edward Hotel.
A ss.year-old pitcher. Charles
Glazner plucked from the Mobil5
Club last season has been sold in
Zee simple to Birmingham where he
will likely spend his remaining
days of baseball usefulness and 4
2T.year-oid first baseman, Ernest
Shirley. sometimes called Mule"
has been disposed OF to Minneapolis,
Of the American Association. Both
OF these bills of Iading call for
gold of the realm and so far is
Washington is concerned the
players involved have already been
forgotten.
Shirley has been hanging around
Washington, Rochester and Green.
vile for many years trying to
make the r@ajor league grade, out
Joe Judge has refused to bulge
from his position either in diff
ference to Shirley or George Sisler.
so young man by the name of
Boss remains the only understudy
for the veteran though peppery
regular first baseman.
GIazner originated from the
Mobile team of the Southern
Association and i'm going hence
TO Birmingham he will be right
back amid the same acoustics.
Incidentally, the fact that Griff
and johnson came home empty
handed Is no fault of their own, be-
cause they did their level best to
retrieve Buddy Myer from the
Boston Red Sox, whence he went
from here early iD the season of
~ -. IL.
Topper RIgney.
Bill Carrigan has done with Myer
what Stanley Harris either didn't
care to do or was unable to do. and
the firm of Griffith and johnson
believe il they could get Buddy
back they might shift Ossie Bluege
! over to short and thereby have q
well-balanced left-hand side of the
infieId.
Griffith denied that the offer
quoted from Toronto involving the
names of Reeves, Cronin, GilIis,
CASTOR and Lisenbee was accurate
in its entirety. however, he would
admit that some of that uuint had
been named in his proposition to
the Boston team,
Whatever the proposition was.
Carrigan lost no time i'm turning
1t down and Griff's parting word
with the venerable Boston pilot
was that if he thought better of
the offer as the winter rolls
along, that either he or johnson
would be as near as the closest
telephone.
Monday afternoon Griff and Bar
ney depart for Chicago where the
joint sessions of the American and
National Leagues will be held and
1t is possible that more may de.
velop there of the deal for Buddy
Myer. Either Griff may add a few
sh1ilings. either in bullion or play
Ing flesh, to his previous offer, or
Carrigan may be tempted by the
standing offer as he takes time TO
think it over.
Were Buddy Myer to return to
Washington, he would receive a vel
come from the fans. as the cash
customers were by no means con.
vinced he was a failure at the time
the Washington club saw fit to let
him escape. There have been per-
sistent rumors that Myer was let
out more for personal reasons on the
part of Harris, than for professional
reasons, but neither Buddy nor
Bucky have ever seen fit to verify
that impression, which is very gen.
eral.
Baseball writer's and baseball men
nave ever been assailed with a story
or an alleged feud between Harris
and Myer which issue is said to have
taken violent form. but that story
has always been advanced by peo.
pie hardly in a position to know.
No source which could be considered
authoritative can vouch for the
yarn; No eye-witnesses have ever
presented themselves. But there has
been much whispering and for that
reason there is probably nothing to
it at ALL