The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-09

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is an executive of ideas and i'm
He will be anything but a rub
Der stamp in his office. There is
little chance that club owners,
who should welcome leadership,
will restrict him in any way.
Prick was called to New York
from Colorado Springs where he
won a courageous fight for life
and health following a break
down in academic work. He prob
ably is the first professor Of
Greek to become president of
great sporting Institution.
The National League benefited
by Tricks exceptional talents in
carrying on the work of public re
lations counsel. He took a good bit
of the play away from the Ameri-
can League, despite the free
handed and spectacular activities
of Tom Yawkey Of the Boston Red
Sox.
Knows Games Needs
Years of experience in news
paper work have taught this new
executive of the National League
the IMPORTANCE of a close link be-
tween the baseball lblic and the
baseball player. With him in the
drivers seat there will be no silly
rules similar to that recently in
effect which prohibited players
from talking to friends in the
stands before or during a game
The man who drives in from Four
Corners to see a ball game has a
right to talk to a ball player. Sucn
chat makes the trip worth while
For the past three years Prick
faded out of the sports writing
scene, but gained even greater
fame as a radio commentator. He
handled programs on national
hook-ups. and his work in broad
casting the presidential returns in
1882 was outstanding.
Always an advocate of peace
and diplomacy, and he is a diplo-
mat from the crown of his head
to his boot heels, Frick is an un-
compromising stickler for what he
thinks is right. There will be no
stuffed shirt in baSebalPs window
with him functioning. There will
be no figurehead at the meetings.
Branch Hickey, choice of many
baseball men, declined the honor
of even being a candidate for the
position of league president. Rick.
ey's holdings are so extensive,
however, that there was little
chance of his entering the field.
Hickey Master Mind
Hickey is perhaps the master
organizer of this era in baseball.
He took a chain of decadent
clubs, obtained ball players to
man them, and within few years
transformed the Cardinal chain
from the laughing stock of base
ball into a menace to any other
clubs ever winning a pennant. ST..
Louis has won five remnants in
nine years. They control so many
ball players that they may easily
continue this percentage of vic
tories indefinitely.
During the season just closed
in addition to the Cardinal vic.
tory, the Columbus club in the
American Association: Rochester
in the International League and
Houston in the Texas League were
winning combinations. Dividends
were declared, and Hickey figured
in the division of the spoils. He
surely had reason to think twice
before walking out on a gold mine
like that.
It won't be long now before
the winter meetings roll along
and what winter meetings they
are going to be-! =. There are more
ball players walking around with
a For Sale tag on their coats
than ever before, it would seem.
Not even the st. Louis Cardinals
are ready to stand pat. Mickey
Cochrane is looking for men to
strengthen the Tigers, and so 1t
goes down the line.
Any One May Go
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