The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21
A. A. Gossip
Pilots Hustle for Talent
at Louisville: Saints
Drop Coleman.

By Times Speciqi
II OUISVILLE, Nov. 21-When
II the American Association own
ers voted late yesterday to abandon
the east-west pennant play-off ar
rangement and returned to the old
straightaway eight club flag race, it
was the signal for the managers IN
Tom Hickey's circuit to begin a
quick drive to bolster their teams.
The old free-for-all means that 1t
will be the survival of the flttest
in the race for the 1885 champion
ship and the weak clubs soon will
discover that it will be a case of
red ink and gobs of it" unless
player strength is available at the
very outset of the campaign.
The 1885 A. A. schedule will con-
sist of the usual 154 games, seventy
seven at home and seventy-seven on
the road. The opening date will be
April Is and the closing date Sept.
Is, making five months of action.
Eastern clubs will open in the east
and western clubs in the west. 1t
is said Toledo will open at Indian
apolis.
HEATH, the first base
WI man obtained by indianapolis
in a trade that sent Frank Sigafoos
to Columbus, is 80 years old. He
stands 6 feet and weighs about
1877. He bats and throws left
handed. His correct name is Minor
Wilson Heath and he is carpenter
during the off season. He entered
league ball in 1924 and has spent
most of his career in the big minors,
International League, Pacific Coast
and American Association.
Heath was on the Cincinnati ros-
ter two years, but an arm injury
him and he saw little
service over a span of two years. He
batted ,231 with the Rochester In
ternationals and Columbus Red
Birds in 1888 and $50 with the Birds
this year.
HEATH was at bat 500 times in
Il Il 1884 and collected 142 hits, in
Guiding fourteen doubles, five triples
and twenty mine home runs. Siga-
foos was at bat 1894 times and got
Ill hits, including nineteen doubles,
one triple and one home run. Heath
also was a timely hitter with run
ners on bases. He batted in 101 runs
to only thirty-six for Sigafoos. Heath
tailed lis times himself and Siga-
foos fifty-seven.
Sigafoos. playing second base as a
regular, was a sensation in 1893. He
batted $40 and posted a new record
of hitting one or more times in
thirty-nine consecutive games. He
was at bat 635 times and collected
235 hits. including fifty-three dou~
bles, eleven triples and six homers.
He also batted in ninety-nine runs
and scored 108 himself in 1888.
MANAGER RED KILLEFER of
4V1 the Indianapolis Hoosiers said
he is eager to obtain a new short
stop, a new outf1elder and a couple
of pitchers, and for that reason is
his top slugger. Vernon
George Washington. The Detroit
Tigers entered the bidding for
Washington today. but they want
him on trial. The Brooklyn Dodgers,
also in the market for Washington,
already owe the Indians two players
in the Lefty Bob Logan deal Logan
was purchased by Brooklyn from In
dianapolis late during the 1884 sea-
son.
The Indians have booked an ex-
hibition game with Nashville on
March 81 at Mayfield, Ky. The
Hoosiers will spring train at May
field. Chief Killefer will take about
thirty-five players to camp. A series
of practice tits will be played with
the Louisville Colonies. who will
train at Union City, Tenn.
Bob Coleman, manager Of the
1884 st. Paul Saints. was released
today. Oscar Roettger, Nick Allen
and Bert Niehoff are among the
leading candidates for the position.
Bruno Bethel, former Louisville
is an applicant for the job
of Memphis pilot.
T. j. Hickey, American Association
president. said that if the little
world series" between the Associa-
ton and the International League
was abandoned, there was a posi-
bility that the Association pennant
winner might play the Pacific Coast
League pennant winner next season.
GREYHOUNDS PREPARE