The Washington times., 1934-11-23
GIANTS DANGLE
HUBBELL AS
TRADE BAIT
BY DAVIS ]. WALSH

Not a great deal was left of the
annual minor leagues baseball
meeting today except the debris
and Bill Terry, New York Giants
manager, who saw the Pirate-cluh
deal consummated under his nose
Many of the footsore and vocally
exhausted gentlemen Of the pro
fession are Fastening back whence
they came, but William is still
here.
Terry is staying behind to COM
plete his No. 2 deal, the number
one having evaporated into thin
air when Freddie LindStrom went
to the Cubs in that sweeping Pitts
burgh-C Chicago trade yesterday.
With Fred went Pitcher Larry
French, a good left-hander. Com
ing the other way were Pitcher
Guy Bush, Pitcher Jim Weaver
and Outfielder Babe Herman, and
it was all a source of great distress
to Mr.. Terry. He wanted Lind
strom as his 1885 centerfielder.
Other Guy Is Santa Claus
He wanted him so badly that
he offered Carl Hubbell, a great
left-hand pitcher, for Lindstrom
and French, thinking to stop the
Chicago. deal and, at the same
time, get the right-hand hitting
outfielder he seeks but everything
went wirehaired and today Mr..
Terry is remaining behind the
parade, where only a few hours
ago he hoped to be well on his
way back to Memphis. He told
me last night that he was staying
over to complete deal No. 2. Just
what that is only two people
know, the other man, I suspect, is
Santa Claus.
Terry was seen very much in
the company of Charley Dresser,
Cincinnati manager, during the
meeting. The inference is and
was that a deal for Chick Hafey,
Cincinnati outfielder, might be
the outcome. If so, it is my privi-
lege to doubt that Hubbell would
be used. If the deal he told me
about last night develops, it might
be for Walter Berger, of the
Braves. If so, it may be a very
involved transaction and Hubbell
may figure. I have been tipped
that Dutch Brandt, star Boston
left-hander, must leave the Braves
before the start of another season.
In any case, all I know is that if
Hubbell goes, the Giants must get
a good lefthander to replace him.
Only Flaw in Deal
There was some mention of
Hal Lee, Boston outfielder, in the
talk around Terry's table last
night but William himself smiled
in a knowing way when Lees
name came up and Dresser
openly Snickered. It didn't seem
possible, in fact, that a Boston.
New York deal could be closed
without Berger figuring in it..
The only difficulty was for New
York to furnish a replacement
who will hit 35 home runs for
the Braves next year. If New
York had a man like that, it
wouldn't be making a deal at all.
No, I'm inclined to think that
when Terry and Jim Tierney, of
the Giants, visited a certain hotel
here yesterday, they were talking
to representatives of the Cincin-
natl club. They might have been
talking to representatives of the
st. Louis club, who were in the
same hotel. But the only man
they could talk about in such a
contingency is gentleman known
as Ducky Medwick, so called be-
cause he proved in the world Sc
ries that he can duck almost
anything thrown at 20 PAGES.
Anyhow, all you can do with
Medwick, as far as the Cards
are concerned, is talk about him.
Therefore, the presumption is
that Terry and Tierney made
their 10 block trip to talk about
Hafey.
Other Developments?
Otherwise deponeth knoweth
very little, except that something
may develop between st. Louis
and Detroit on Outfielder Gerald
Walker, also something between
the Boston Red Sox and St.
Louis on a deal that will assure
the former of the American
League pennant in 1885. The
deal in question would send
Oscar Mellilo and First Basemar
Burns to the Red Sox and every.
body else into Mysteries. With
an infield like that, the Sox
couldn't miss.
Meantime, do not chide the
st. Louis club too deeply. all
HornSby can hope to do is
hover around and pick up a
morsel from the rich mans
table. Mr.. Walker, of course
will be incenSed to learn that
he's being designated as a morsel.
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