The Washington times., 1930-08-28
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BY FRANK (BUCK) oNEILL
Rogers Hornsby is through with

Bv FRANK (BUCK) ONELL
Rogers Hornsby is through with
the Chicago Cubs.
No official announcement mas
been made to that effect yet. but
then Hornsby's contract at $4O.-
600 a year does not expire until
the end of the season.
Along about the time snow
flies the once mighty Rajah win
be moving along, and just
whittier, none Of baseball's
prophets seem to know. Nor do
they seem to care.
Banded about at the time
Hornsby's passing was heralded
by unofficial spokesmen, came the
report that the Phillies and Cards
were to swing another Of their
deals, which are now becoming
the wonder of the National
League. It is said that st. Louis
is going to send Jim Bottomley,
Jess IIaines and at least two,
other players. one Of whom Is
said to be Chick Hafey, to the
Phillies in exchange Of Pinkey
Whitney and Chuck Klein.
Such a trade would be just
what the doctor ordered for the
Cardinals. With that right field
fence to whack at all summer
long-and it is easier to hit a
home run in St. Louis than it Is
in Phiadelphia-Klein would be
in a pull hitter's heaven.
And whitney would make"
the st. Louis infield, make no
mistake about that. He Is
one whale Of Q ball player. st.
Louis is willing to let Hafey
20, and Klein would be vel.
come in the Mound City.
It is highly impolite at this time
to even suggest to baseball men
that Branch Hickey has some
thing approximating a fatherly
interest in the Philadelphia club.
Just the same, the Cards have
made some nifty deals with the
Phillies, managed as you know by
Burt Shotton, one of the Hickey
school of managers.
Raiah a "LOne Wolf"
Hornsby moves about the Chi.
cago ball field a lone wolf. The
Rajah never was a handshaker.
He is strictly a winning ball
player. and in fighting for win
ming games he has flayed friend
and foe mercilessly. His COM
ments have raised the ire Of some
Of the thin-skinned members Of
the Cubs and they don't go for
Hornsby very strong. Among the
men who do not go too strong for
Hornsby is one Joe Mccarthy,
who happens to be manager OF
the Cubs.
Rajah seems to think that he
will come back in the spring as
good as ever. He was more than
optimistic when I chatted with
him on the Cubs bench last trip.
His heel Is better now as the
result Of . rest, and his frac-
tured leg IL improving. Right
now he is slow and can't go to
his right as well as he should.
But that is not surprising for o
chap just out Of q cast on .
battered bone.
The indications are that the
Texan will change his uniform
next year. If he does, and If he
fades the major leagues. the game
will lose one Of its truly colorful
figures. There never was greater
fighter han Hornsby. He was the
greatest right-handed hitter Of
the modern era and one Of the
real leaders. New York will not
forget the great showing made by
the Giants under the Rajah three
years ago when he took the torch
flung to him by the injuref' John
]. McGraw and almost succeeding
in winning the pennant.
Hornsby would make great
manager Of a club-or the worst
in the world. There would be no
half way measure about him. He
probably would have ten thousand
fights a year with athletes who
would not play the baseball he
demanded. But for men who did
their stuff, HornsbA would have
nothing but praise and he would
win pennants: He proved himself