The Washington times., 1928-12-06

be heard If you tune in on the
baseball chatter which is go-
ing the rounds, now that moguls
of the various leagues are in
the midst of their winter broad
cast.
The cracking wave lengths
seem to say that the house
cleaning out at st. Louis is not
entirely finished and that Ford
ham Frankly Frisch, he who
went in trade with Jimmy Ring
for Rogers Hornsby two years
ago this month, is soon to be
sent hence from the Cardinals
for one reason or another.
Principal among these causes
is the fact that Frisch has
voiced his disapproval of Sam
Breadon and Branch Hickey
choo-ilg Billy Southworth as
the next manager of the NCardi-
mails when the Cards already
had potential manager in
their ranks by the name of
Frisch.
Then, too, they do say that
Frisch's run-in with Jimmy Will
son during the series and the
jam-up with Jess Haines pre-
vious to the fall classic, didn't
put him in any too solid with
Hickey who is a peace-loving
man, who doesn't want anyone
on the Cardinals who is too ag-
gressive.
Being guilty of lese-majesty
therefore, in speaking above a
whisper while wearing a Red
Bird uniform, Frisch is .yener-
ally supposed to be on the block
and the smart minds are expect
ing word that the Cardinals
have decided to get rid of him
while he is still good enough to
bring a fancy figure either in
cash or its equivalent in play
ing flesh.
Either the Pirates or the
Cubs could make good use of
Frisch, the former having
Wright to offer aid the latter
having only mere gold. An
oddity indeed would result were
the Cubs to land the Flash to
play third with Hornsby just
across the infield at second.
Offhand it would appear that
Bucky Harris and President
Frank Navin grabbed something
when they exercised options on
Jack Prudhomme and Dale Alex
ander, of the Toronto Maple
Leafs, in the first deal of i'm
portance which came out of the
Toronto baseball conclave. Prud-
homme is the sensational right
handler who turned in Fl VIC
tories for the Leafs last season
and Alexander is the hardest
hitting first baseman in the In@T
ternational League.
Washingtonians by the score
are glad that Navin is supply
ing Harris with the proper stuff
with which to work. These two,
with Charlie Gehringer, De-
troit's young second baseman,
and Owen Carroll, the former
Holy Cross lad, make a nucleus
for Harris which is pleasant to
contemplate.
Friends of Fritz Maisel, for
mer big league player whose
home is in Catonsville, Md,
are boosting him to manage the
Baltimore Orioles, which berth
is left vacant by the death of
Jack Dunn.
DID YOU KNOW: that late
last season Dazzy Vance sug-
gested to Babe Herman that he
put a rat trap in his glove for
two purp oses-make the ball
stay in it and by the time the
Babe did release it, it would be
too late for him to throw In
the wrong direction?
That the pastime of washing
hands with a piece of soap in
which were EMBEDDED couple
of safety razor blades never be-
came popular? 1t was intro
duced by Bernie Neis with
slashing results.
That most major leaguers never
read a players contract from
beginning to end? The para
graph wherein are written the
salary figures is the only one
to get their attention,
That Leo Durocher, of the
Yankees, is continuing the bust
ness of razzin' players on other