The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
|YAWKEY NOT YET. ASSURED CLUB
 TO GRAB FLAG.
Grove, Terrell and FOxx
 Must Carry Big Job For Red SOx
RY CHOICE KIRsKEY

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 New York, Dec. 19I-(UP)-The impression that Tom Yawkey's cash has bought" the American league pennant for delivery to the Boston Red Sox next September isn't gen. erally shared by competent baseball observers, who still regard the world champion Detroit Tigers as the most powerful team in the league.
 Assuming that Roger Cramer and Eric McNair have been added to the Red Sox in addition to Jimmy Foxx, Johnny Marcum and Heinie Manush, Boston still ranks second to Detroit's all-round power and proved ability. There is no evidence that these five players will convert the Red Sox into an unbeatable pennant machine.
 Not So Rosy
 For the money and talent he gave up, Yawkey doesn't seem to have received any bargains in the new additions to the Red Sox. Manusi1 is 35 and definitely past his peak. He batted .273 last season, and drove in only '35 runs in 119 games. He is definitely a gamble even un- der the friendly leadership of his pal, Joe Cronin. Marcum won 17 games for the last place Athletics but ranks only 30th in earned run effectiveness.
 McNair batted .270 and ranked fifth in fielding among the regular shortstops. Cramer, ranked in some quarters as the best outfielder in the American league, batted .332 but drove in only 70 runs. Foxx. who drove in 115 runs and batted .346 probably will add more punch to the Red Sox than any of the new acquisitions.
 When Grove and Terrell weren't on the mound last season, the Red Sox were a pretty sad ball club. The 45 games won by that pair enabled the Red Sox to land fourth place, but they finished 16 games behind the Tigers and 13 games back of the second-place Yankees. Outside of the Athletics and the Browns, Yawkey's club had more weak spots to patch up than any other club in the league.
 Lammed to Alaska
 As early as last spring Yawkey that the Red Sox wouldn't go far in the 1885 race. He took 8 look at the club in training at Sarasota, and very shortly there after started plans for lengthy visit to Alaska, which he made dur ing the season. Yawkey definitely has the fans outlook instead of the club owners, as illustrated by his extravagant purchases of play- CTS who have proved of no use to the Red Sox. Tn his haste to get a pennant-w winner, Yawkey perhaps has made more unwise deals than any other owner in the game.
 Yawkey has spent something like $1 100000 on the Red Sox in three years and still has no definite as-- surance that he has gathered the of a championship club. If Grove, who can't go on much longer at 36, and Terrell should slump from overwork, not too re- mote possibility, Yawkey still would have a fourth or fifth place ball club.
 Many critics believe Mickey Co., chrane pulled the smartest deal of the winter season when he pur- chased Al Simmons from the White Sox for $75,000, outbidding the New York Yankees $60,000.
 The rising strength of the Tig- CTS and Red Sox has placed the New York Yankees in precarious position. The Tanks must make big deal before the 1886 season if they hope to make dangerous bid for the pennant.