The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-20

The National Association is a
minor league gathering, but practi-
cally all the major league clubs are
represented here and several of
them are talking trade and transfer
in a large way. Frequently the
managers and magnates never get
beyond the talking stage at this an
nual conclaye.
That's where Grimm, manager
and vice-president of the Cubs,
comes in. Grimm, under the new
P. K. Wrigley regime, has more au-
thority than any other major league
manager. Wrigley's only orders TO
Grimm are to get together the
strongest club possible.
Cub Pilot Eyes Stars
Grimm covets several players, in
Guiding pitchers Hal Schumacher
and Carl Hubbell of the Giants,
Van Mungo of Brooklyn and Larry
French, Pittsburgh southpaW. He
has more cash to spend than any
other National League manager, and
plenty of trading material. When
Grimm was elevated recently to the
presidency he was empowered
to make his own deals as he saw fit
He doesn't have to ask anybody's
advice, unless he wants it. Last
year ire Cubs front Office made a
trade on him at a critical time in
the pennant race and didn't tell him
about it until two hours later.
Grimm had an appointment today
with Bill Terry, who is tearing apart
the former world champion Giants
and something may come of the
meeting. If no deals result here, the
groundwork may be laid for a big
trade at the ajor league meeting
next month in New York.
Combs Rumors Are Ended
The first major league news here
was the announcement that the
Cincinnati Reds have signed Long
George Kelly, former first baseman
of the Giants and Reds, and Thomas
Sheehan, pitcher with the Holly
wood Pacific Coast League club last
season, as Cincinnati coaches, Burt
Shotton, Reds coach last year, was
dropped. Shotton, who formerly
managed the PhillieS, still is being
paid his full salary, said to be $4,000
year, by the PhillieS. That con-
tract does not expire until the end
of the 1885 season. 1t is believed
Shotton will line up with the Cardi-
nails chain system in some capacity.
Earl Combs, New York Yankees
outfielder, who was seriously in
jured last year when he collided with
the outfeld wall at st. Louis, was
honor guest at a testimonial dinner
last night at which Joe Mccarthy
Yankees manager; frankie Frisch,
Cardinals manager, and Charlie
Dresser, Cincinnati manager, were
speakers. Mccarthy said he ex-
pected Combs to be back in the
Yankee outfield next season, ending
rumors that Combs would never
play ball again.
Dixie Series at Stake
The fate of two minor league
championship playoffs-the little
world series" between the American
Association and international
League pennant winners, and the
Dixie series between the Texas
League and Southern Association
pennant WinnerS-hung in the bal
ance today. The American Associa-
ton is not keen about continuing
the little world series" under the
present system of "play-offS" in each
league before the series is begun.
The Southern Association wants
to have a full season of 154 games
without any playof in its own ranks
while the Texas League wants tc
have a playof involving the first
four clubs. If both stick to their
present intentions the Dixie series
probably will be temporarily aban-
doned.