Evening star., 1933-04-07
CHANGES IN MOST
OF CLUBS MARKED
Griffs One of Few to Start
Same InfieId Four Who
Finished in 1892.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n IEW YORK, April 7.-Majol
M league base ball clubs will
i Y resume business at the ole
stands next Wednesday
but they'll hardly look the same
The off-Season set up a new
all-time record for player ex-
changes and with the usual quota
Of freshmen breaking into the
line-ups, some of the clubs will
be all but unrecognizable tc
hometown fans.
AL the returns are not yet in, but
a survey of the situation today makes
1t appear that only five of the 16 clubs
will open the new season with the
same infields that carried on in the
closing days OF the 1882 season-the
New York Yankees, Washington Sena-
tors and st. Louis Browns of the Amer
lean League. and the Pittsburgh Pi-
rates and Chicago Cubs of the National
The Browns are counting again on
the defensive skill of Burns, Melillo,
Leyey and Scharein, and the world
pat on the Gehrig- -Lazzeri- -Crossetti-
Sewell combination, although there still
Is an outside chance that Bill Werber
may beat Crosetti out of the shortstop
berth. The Senator's have no worries
with Kuhel, Myer, Cronin and Bluege.
CEoRGE GIBSON is well satisfied
" with Suhr, Piet, Vaughan and
Traynor and the Cubs have no
kicks on Grimm, Billy Herman, English
and Koenig, although the latter may be
given frequent relief.
Every one of the other II clubs will
show at least one change in the first
line defense with first base shifts the
most prominent. The Brooklyn Dodgers,
Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox
and probably the Phillies. all will open
with men at that post who were not
there at the close OF 1882.
The Dodgers have plugged thsir one
infield weakness with Joe Judge, who
learned Just about all there is to know
about drst base in Is years with WASH
ington. The Reds will have Jim Bot
tomley, erstwhile Cardinal, at that spot
and Manager Lou Fonseca will resume
his place there for the White Sox.
Don Hurst. Phillies' slugger, finally
has agreed to terms after the most ex-
tended hold-out campaign of the
Spring, but probably will not be in
shape to open the season at his GUS
tomary station. Gus Dugas, former
Pirates outfielder who has been filling
In for Hurst, probably will continue to
DO so through the early part of the
campaign.
Shifts at second and third base are
almost as numerous. The Phillies will
have Neal (Mickey) Finn, former
Dodger, at second base, while the Bos-
ton Red Sox will offer Johnny Hodapp.
At third base, the Athletics viii pre-
sent Frank Higgins in Jimmy Dykes old
spot while Dykes is doing his base ball
ing for the White Sox Marvin Owen
Is Bucky Harris choice at third for the
Detroit Tigers, while Fritz Knothe ap-
parently will be the Boston Braves
regular there.
iIoHN '(BLoNDY) RYAN probably
u will open ct shortstop for the New
York Giants while Travis jackson
Is building up his strength, and Bill
Knickerbocker Is slated to cover the
territory between second and third for
the Cleveland Indians. Dick Gyselman,
coast recruit, probably will be retained
by the Braves, but seems to have small
chance now of ousting Bill Urbansd
from short or Knothe from third.
To all these changes the st. Louis
Cardinals probably will add at least two
more. but Gabby Streets team still is in
the process of formation OF the 1882
infeld regulars only Jimmy Collins and
Frank Frisch are certain starters. Col
lins is fixture at first, but Frisch prob
ably will move to third base In the event