Evening star., 1933-04-09
Sc OUT OF MINORS
GETTING BIG TESTS
All Clubs Dig Up Promising
TaIent-Tribe, AS Lead at
Making "Finds."
BY PAUL NICHOLSON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

~ HCAGO, April 8.-Ameri-
can League club owners,
Y 4 forced to make a dollar go
10 times as far as it did
back in the old boom days of base
ball, apparently have established
a new record for shreWd buying on
the Fall and Winter minor league
player marts.
So successful were they in their
search for necessary talent that Sc
rockies, more than double the number
OF last year, today appeared certain OF
sticking with their respective clubs past
the reducing date of May IS, when
rosters must be trimmed to % men.
Cleveland and Philadelphia, which
had to do lot of shopping to fill the
gaps left by sales of regulars, lead the
league in all-around application of
David Harum shrewdnesS. Those clubs
have seven players each, who seem
destined to keep on the roster from
start to finish this year. Detroit and
New York ranked second, with five
newcomers apiece.
THE prize newcomers of the great
i American League rookie crop Of
1888, according to latest advices from
managers. follow:
Boston-The Red Sox appear to have
found great assistance in Outfielder
John Winsett, obtained from Buffalo;
Shortstop Gregory Mulleavy, who
worked last year with the White Sox
and Oakland, and Pitcher Justin Nc
Laughlin. Mclaughlin was carried
along merely as batting practice
pitcher last season, but has developed
into real southpaw prospect
Chicago-Outfielder ,Evar Swanson,
probably the fleetest man in all base
ball; Pitcher George Murray. purchased
from Dallas, and Joe Heving, who
hurled for Indianapolis last season,
seem to have made good with the
White Sox.
Cleveland-The Indians, who usually
come up with at least one "hot" rookie
every year. have seven good-looking
prospects this season. They are Short
stop Bill Knickerbocker, Third Base
man Odell Hale and Catcher Frank
Pytlak, all obtained from Toledo; First
Eastman Harley Boss, a Southern
League product of promise, and Pitch
ers Howard Craghead. Belve Bean and
Forrest Twogood. Twogood still is on
the shaky side, but is to get another
trial with bright hopes.
DETROIT-The tigers have picked I'D
quartet of probable future American
League stars in Third Baseman Marvin
Owen. voted the most valuable player
in the International League last wear.
Pitcher Lynwood (Schoolboy) Rowe,
Outfielder Erwin Fox, and Catcher
O
Tex. First Baseman Henry Greenberg,
another Beaumont rookie, is to be kepE
for relief work.
NEW YORK-Pitchers Don Brennan
IN star International Lacquer. and
Russell Van Alta, a promising
pitcher from st. Paul, look good TO
Manager Joe Mccarthy. Charles Dew
ems, Harvard's star pitcher, has shown
great form in the Spring games. Short
stop Bill Werber of Buffalo and Out
fielder Fred Walker, obtained from the
Newark farm, also are making good
fights for jobs on the powerful cham
pionship team
PHILADELPHIA Mack al
ready has intimated that OutfeIders
Bob johnson and Louis Finney and
Third Baseman Frank Higgins are reg
ular fixtures while Southpew Cowell
Claset and Right Handlers Bill Diet
ricn, Jim Peterson and James McKeit-
han have shown fine curves All four
may be retained.
ST. LOUIS-Pitchers Jack Knott, OBJ
tanned from Milwaukee, and Roland
Stiles, Wichita Falls star, have been
delivering for the Browns
OF Davenport, Iowa, and Bud Thomas
of Youngstown, Ohio, seem to have
passed the Spring test for the Nationals,
along with Catcher Cliff Bolton, obtained
from Chattanooga, and Infelder Bob
Boken of Kansas City.