The Washington times., 1935-12-12
.Heinie Seeks
Change Of
Scenery
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL

which, according 10 all reports
from Chicago is now a matter OF
hours, will benefit everyone con-
cerned in the operation. The Griffs
will dispose of ball player who
wants to be sold, and who in Wash
ington has played first and fiji
teenth baseball ever since Joe
Cronin was sold to Boston.
The club who buys Manush will
get a player who has few years
of major league baseball left, and
a player who will be benefited by
a change of scenery.
And Heinie will whoop for glee
and go on a hitting jag Just as
sure as you're born.
To set the record straight, let
me clarity the first and fifteenth
statement made previously. No
implication is made that ManuSh
didn't give all he had while he
was in the game. He played good
ball, hit when possible, threw as
far as he could and caught fly
balls after his usual struggle. He
didn't make a sucker of himself
and he didn't throw down the
team.
Not for Griffs
But he wasn't a winning ball
player. He didn't have the flame
and the Surging spirit of combat.
You always felt that you might
win a pennant with ManuSh on
the team, but you knew that you
never would win a pennant be-
cause he was on the team. You
felt that Heinie never gave that
extra grunt and that extra ounce
that marks the champion.
Manush will play better ball in
Cleveland or in New York. He'll
play better ball anywhere he is
sent because he will feel free. He
would like to go to Boston, and
will tell you so, but in the whirligig
of internal politics that is base
ball. he never will make that
grade. Cronin would like to get
him, but is constrained by certain
feelings of loyalty to the Griffith
family. After all, Joe is one of
them.
Cronin nor anyone else will ever
give Manush a good arm. He can't
throw, and he never could as long
as your reporter remembers him.
Heinie is a good hitter, but not a
run producer. He never was He
can guard that plate and shove
or pull the ball in fine style. But
when did ManuSh ever drive in
100 runs in a season.
For the past years Clark Grit
fifth has been trying to bolster
Manush by saying that driving
in runs is not prime essential.
I'll let you show me when they
paid off on the number of men
left on bases.
Murphy Would Help
If Bucky Harris can get Johnny
Murphy or Johnny Broaca from
the Yankees in exchange for
Manush he will be something of
a hoss trader. If he gets Hudlln
for Manush and cash he will be
doing all right.
Manush's job with the Yankees
If he goes there, probably will be
as pinch hitter. He never could
play left field up there because of
the burden it would place on his
arm. If a ball gets through the
outfielders, it may roll some 400
feet to the fence. Heinie might
be a good relay man, for he never
throws to the wrong base. Aside
from his throwing arm, Joe NC
Carthy would live five eternltles
watching Manush struggle under
fly balls.
The Cleveland right field would
be soft for Manush with no one
on first or second. If men were
on the lines he would be on the
spot. Fast runners would go from
first to third on Heinie. They've
done it for the past several years.
Summing it all up. Manush is
still a good ball player, but he
is not a great 'un as we estimate
all-around values. 1 think he
would be a far better player in
another town.
No Winter Tours
The owners turned down their
thumbs on winter tours, and this
writer questions the wisdom of
such a move. 1t is my conten-
tion that tours to Japan and
Mexico, Cuba and other countries
do a great deal for baseball and
for this country.
Those who wish can arch a
skeptical eyebrow at this state
ment, but it goes. Your reporter
trekked the outlands from Yoko
hama to Manila via Souel. Muk-
den. Pekin, Hongkong and way
stations, with a major league
team.
We saw a lot and learned a
lot. The athletes brought home
the fact that Americans were
not the worst people in the
world. 1t was pretty good propa-
ganda.
You have to hand it to Clark
Griffith. He got the league to
give Buddy Myer $500 for lead
ing the league. Now the "old
faux" can give Buddy a gold
medal and feel pretty good about
it.
Maybe BY 1888