Evening star., 1928-12-13
GR|FF STILL HOPES
| TO CORRAL BUDDY
Mats BaIk at Giving Both
/ Reeves and Cronin, With
! Others, for InfieIder.

in the American League Iooay
Myer, that human streak Of
lightning. who earned his pay WEEK
after week with the Boston Eeo So1
last season. Cleveland would have iiKeo
to had Buddy" So would DeIroAo'
ALSO Washington.
Strangely enough the Indians were
che first major league club to have title
to the fash, and let him loose over
matter of a couple of hundred dollars,
fhe kid finally catching on with rev
Orleans of the Southern ASsociaClon.
washington had him and dldnC ap-
breciate his worth until they let MN
60 to a new pasture.
Detroit never has had title to him, but
Stanley Harris, former manager OF the
Senators and who now is pilot OF the
Tigers had an opportunity to look
<'B1ddy" over when he played In the
ranks under Harris as member OF
the washington club, and he'd go a
long way toward procuring the up ana
doing Myer for his Bengal crew.
Harris went so far as to approach Bill
Carrigan, manager of the Red Sox,
offering to swap him either Fatty
Eothergill or Marty McManuS Ior
sBuddy," and when Bill shook his
Nise old head. in a negative response,
Harris put it on thick by saying ned
give both fat and Marty for the kid.
How Bucky Put 1t.
Bucky explained that inaSmuch as
khe Red Sox finished last in 1928 with
Myer playing bangup game all season
they might do the same in 1929 ana
said that with 'Fothergill and McManus
both able to line the ball against the
wall in the Fenways short left Held
this pair might do the Sox far more
good than Myer, even if the latter I'm
proved over his form of last season:
Carrigan reckoned as how Bucky'S
Zine of thought might be good and all
that, but he told him then and there
he wasn't trading coming player VINO
locked like ready money for a couple
of men who surely had their best years
behind them, and added that If Harris
had any other propositions TO submit
he'd be happy to lend willing ear. But
at was evident that Bucky had moth
ing more to offer for he pulled stakes
at the Congress Wednesday noon and
hied himself Eastward. e.
With Detroit and Cleveland out OF
the running, the Indians having acquired
Johnny Taveiler, 1t looks very much
as Ii Washington has the inside track
providing Owner Bobby Quinn and
Manager Carrigan make up their minds
to sever the tie that binds Myer to the
Quinn and Clark Grihith, owner of
the Nationals, have been breakfasting,
iunching and dinnering together and
they may even be taking a snack at
midnight for all we know and every
body along Chicago'S base ball r1alto
can hear GrifRth repeating the mama
Of Myer times without number.
Griff Sweet on Myer.
The Old Fox is sweet on the kid be-
cause he is immensely popular with the
fans in Washington, and If there Is one
thing Griff likes to do, above all else,
it Is To court the favor of his patrons.
He proved this beyond doubt when he
signed Walter Johnson to manage his
team. Walter ever has been the idol
of Washington fans, and it was a smart
move on the part. Of Grif to line him
up rs pilot when he decided that Stan
Harris had about run his race IN the
National Capital. He considered that a
master stroke from the managerial end.
Now he'd like to pull one from the
playing standpoint, and thereby hangs
the tale of his desire to wave his magic
wand and transform Buddy Myer from
b Red Sox into Griffman.
Grin will go the extreme limit to land
Myer, and il has been indicated that
his offer is going to be difficult for the
Boston duo, Quinn and Carrigan, to
turn down. It is said that he has Of
fered to give the Rex Sox CASTOR,
Gisenhee, ellis, Gooch and Cronin for
thes 1irebrand" Carrigan has been
holding out for Reeves, and right there
is where the old brogan rubS.
Boston needs far more than it had
bastxeason, and it may be that two, or
even three, of the men Grif has placed
as attempting bait before the eyes of
Quinn and Carrigan viii come through.
and accordingly do the Red Sox far
bnork good than could Myer, should he
be retained.
Lays Cards ON Table.
Grifhth has intimated that he has
laid his cards on the table, face up, for
The Boston powers to see for the last
time, and If they don't take In the
trick it will be because they don't know
b good thing when they see it. He Is
honest in saying he has no great de-
sire to help Boston, but II it is neces-
Eary to do so in order to obtain for his
base-ball-gping public that which 1t de-
Eires most, he is for it.
Close observers OF things base baltic
hre of the opinion that Quinn and Car
kiCaYa oxyey7t1Ial1y will coa the Hnht and