The Washington times., 1932-06-11
NO EXCHANGE.
Of PLAYERS
IN DEAL
BY GARRETT WATERS
Times Staff Correspondent

, ST. LOUIS, June 11.-Your
Uncle Clark Griffith went be-
yond the fence and purchased a
seasoned pitcher today-Alphonse
Thomas, from the Chicago White
SoX.
No exchange of players is at
tached to this transaction. It
is an outright purchase, and
Thomas, who hurled the eighth
inning against the GriffS yester-
day, will join his new team
mates tomorrow.
Washington is reported to have
paid something like $1,000 for
him. Our team has gotten an
other pitcher and the outlook for
a possible pennant is brighter
than it was week or so ago.
No Rookie
Thomas is far from being a
rookie when it comes to big
league baseball. He was born
December %. 1899, and has been
with the White Sox since 1926.
His record so far this season
stands at three victories against
the same number of losses.
Alphonse has done some pretty
good work for the Sox during
his career with them. This is
especially outstanding in view of
the fact that the SoX have been
a losing ball club for the past six
years. Thomas best season was
in 1927 when he won 19 games
while losing 16. Last year he
annexed 10 victories while IA
were chalked up on the wrong
side of the ledger. The Sox got
this hurler, by the way, from
Baltimore, of the International
League, in 1925 in a deal which
sent Maurice Archdeacon to the
Orioles.
Answers Need
It is the opinion around the
club that the corralling of
Thomas today, and Coffman a
couple of days ago, just about
answers the crying problem, which
once ruled, for pitchers, pitchers,
and more pitchers, a. any cost.
There's one thing certain
Thomas and Coffman are not the
worst hurlers in the world and
are a pair that might help the
Griffs catch those Yankees yet
for the old gonfalon.
incidentally the acquisition OF
Thomas marks the nth time that
a deal of some sort has been
conSumated with the chicago
White Sox during the past three
or four years.
Former Sox players now IN
Griff uniforms list Dave Harris
Moe Berg, Carl Reynolds, Johnny
Kerr, and the late Mr.. AlphonSe
Thomas.
The acquisition of Pitcher Dick
Coffman from the St. LOUIS
Browns is a cause Of much Satls-
faction to Manager Walter John
son. who feels that the big right
handler will prove big help to
the Griffmen in their protracted
drive for the pennant.
Says Johnson:
"COffman, although he is not
the best hurler in the world,
has enough ability to warrant
him becoming a future great
under the right environment
such as a winning ball club. He
is a horse for work, is big
enough to stand it. He should
go well with u.s."
The new addition is the sort
of pitcher who can do rescue
work unusually we'll, while as a
starting finger he is one Of the
best in the league when right.
Who Got Best?
It remains to be seen whether
the Griffs bettered the Browns
in this latest baseball deal.
Fischer may blossom into real
star at St. Louis. Then again
he may not.
Coffman must show that he can
win games consistently for the
Griffs in order to be the success
both your Uncle Clark Griffith
and Manager johnson hope he
will be.
The departure of Fischer ends
an unusual career for him as a
Griffman. Probably no other
rookie pitcher, as a first year
man, experienced as extraordi-
nary a rise as Carl.
Down in Biloxi last spring,
Fischer was one of the most un-
certain rockies at camp, but was
kept because he flashed signs Of
future greatness.
During the first few weeks of
the campaign, Carl couldn't be
beaten as his record of nine
straight triumphs prove.
After helping greatly in keep
ing the team up in the race, the
left handlers work fell off and
he got into such a rut that Man
ager Johnson could not depend
upon him.
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