The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-15

ITOvER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

CT. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
- Is. - Baseball's new act - the
champion Cardinals featuring John
Pepper Martin--goes over Just as
big in the sticks as in the me-
tropolis.
Stage Director Street tried the act
out on the local tourists here Mon
day, using the Boston Braves as
stooges, a role they were able to
play without makeup. and every
body voted it fair sort of success.
The National League champions won the
ball game, during the course of which they
conducted themselves with a cockiness
that seemed to imply that they think they
tend TO stand for any messing around on
the part Of their opponents.
IL WaB only the second game they had
won in the south but they won It i'm
pressivelY and looked like champions. OF
to look e cRsmpons eg asan sth the Braves F9e
put there can be no doubt about the class
and potentialities Of the Cardinals.
They have that certain something. Even
uith four OF their stars out OF the lineup
ihey have IT,, Three-fourths Of the infeld
rhieh turned back the Athletics in the
Norld series last fall we're out Of the game.
frsch and Bottomley aren't ready and
colbert is holdout SO is Hafey the
NarQ -nULlDR Outhelder.
Frisch and Bottomley will be ready in
Que time. Just what will happen TO Gel
pert ana HafeY remains to be seen.
whether the Cardinals. with their extraor-
oinary reserve forces, can get along with
out two men like Colbert and Hafey is a
question Privately and of the record,
street. doesn't 'hink so. but the club man.
a2ement does.
The general opinion seems to be that
with Hafey and Colbert back in the lineup
Inc Cardinals will repeat. or come close to
&c. and by the same reasoning the experts
gree that without them some other team
VII win. probably the Giants or the
I WAS sitting with Sam Breadon,
4 owner of the Cardinals, and
Judge Emil Fuchs, owner of the
3raves, when the trade between
BROOKLYN and Cincinnati was. an
bounced. Both agreed that it ought
% work out more advantageously for
Brooklyn than Cincinnati, and that
he addition of Strip to the Brook
yn infield might even have the eff
ject of making the club a distinct
pennant possibility.
They didn't need Herman particularly
and they did need man Ike Strip" said
Hreadon. Fuchs said the same thing and
dded that Herman. if he isn't used by
e ncinnat in still another trade might
lld it difficult to hit well in the Ohio
ran park because Of its spaciousness. Very
lew pop flies 20 for home runs out there.
Sitting with Breadon and Fuchs IL was
impossible not to reflect upon the two
idely different systems which they repre-
mt. Breadon pioneered the chain store
idea In baseball. All told he has ten
clubs OF varying classihcations around the
clipping new talent for the Cardinals. AS
b consequence. Breadon always has a pen
M contender and usually pennant
inner.
Fuchs. on the other hand. has not such
lnnections and is forced to 20 into the
zen. market for his players, always a
Fuchs never has a pennant contender
rms wear he speaks optimistically Of |
nd that high There is only one way to
3mpete against the chain store and that !
10 put one into effect yourself Whether |
IS a good thing for baseball in general
debatable. It certainly has been a good |
linR for Breadon.
All major league teams will have to
0me to the idea sooner or later" says /
headon. 1T takes YOU three or four
PRS to develop young player end how |
~ YOU going TO develop him unless you
eve place 10 school him?
At best scout doesn't see, prospect |
% more than a couple of weeks and that |
'arcely is time enough to learn all you
lould know about a player
We nave been able to demonstrate that !
70 system OF scouting is futile unless il |
backed up by finishing schools-or |
mailer clubs whore the player can be /
mt, watched and taught"