Evening star., 1931-12-13
FREQUENT SHIFTS
DUE TOPAy ROWS
Burleigh Was With Detroit
Before Hurting for Many
National Teams.
BY GEORGE CHADWICK.

N TEW YORK, December 12.-
! ~ Burleigh Grimes resumes
: Y his jaunt around the cir
cult Of the National League.
Traded to the Chicago Cubs this
week by the st. Louis Cardinals,
the pitching hero of the 1881
world series is booked for his sixth
berth in that league-leaving him
only two more to go. He started
with Detroit in the American
League in 1918.
The boss of the st. Louis club
said that Grimes was not released
to Chicago because st. Louis
thought Grimes had lost his eff
fectiveneSs.
No, sir, he is a perfectly good
Grimes" he remarked, but we are in
the hothouse business at St. Louis
raising young ball players, and we must
make places for them"
The real trouble Is that the st. Louis
club couldn't make terms with Grimes
for 1882. Burleigh is not a one-arn
lunch pitcher. He likes a good seven
course meal, with trimmings.
Couldn't Get Along.
When st. Louis and the Athletics
were battling at their best in the world
series, the st. Louis club and Grimes
were fencing over salary terms for 1882
Il never can come to any agreement
with those fellows" said Grimes. I've
given them all I've got and guess they
would like to give me the boot"
Grimes asked permission to campaign
for job as manager of some club He
got it. Any club then in need of
manager could have gone farther to
fare worse.
Grimes went to New York, BROOKLYN.
Pittsburgh, Boston and the st. Louis
Nationals as the years rolled by. In
all OF those cities he made a splendid
record. He was with Pittsburgh twice,
Ine nrst time he was there he was am
bilious but erratic. The next time he
made record that kept Pittsburgh in
the pennant fight.
His longest term of service was in
Brooklyn, but in the very year that
Brooklyn most needed him. he was not
with them. He had been permitted to
go to New York in a three ee-cornered
oeai. Grimes went to New York and
made good. When the season was over
u was necessary to hook up with the
management for another season. Man
ager McGraW wanted Grimes. Grimes
wanted a salary that he thought COM
mensurate with the population of the
city. ''''
Giants Shipped Him.
One day Grimes received a telegram
from an official of the club ANNOUNCE
ing that his contract had been for
Warded to him and he must sign at a
certain figure. Grimes didn't think 1t
was enough. Abruptly he received
word from an official of the club, who
was not the manager, that he had been
sold down the river again" and this
time back to Pittsburgh.
Grimes went to Pittsburgh and made
a gorgeous success. One of the men
on the club didn't care for him. Then
Grimes hurt his hand and Pittsburgh
heard that he would never be fit to
pitch again, So Grimes went to Bos-
ton, where he couldn't get under head
way, because the remainder Of the team
was of little help. The Braves permit
ted him to go to st. Louis.
There are other ports of call which
ne may visit before he is through. He
Is q queer bird, this Grimes. He makes
good record with a team and then
ne is sent on and on.
Without Grimes, the Cardinals would
not nave won the world championship
this year. With little better luck, he
might have been winning pitcher for
St. Louis in the 1880 series. Had he
been with Brooklyn in 1880, when the
team had good chance for the PEN
aant, he might have won it for them.
he would have been quite as good as
oazzy Vance and probably not so in
lolent.