The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-28


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BY DANIEL NJ. DANIEL
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-Thomas
Austin Yawkey, the man of the hour
in baseball, sat by an open window
overlooking pleasant, green vista
on his plantation in Georgetown,
s. c., where he is spending the holi
days. The interviewer, on snow
covered WeSt-st in New York, gazed
across gale-sWept Hudson, on
which rode ships going out to sea.
Over a thousand miles of telephone
wires, almost as if they sat again
in quiet corner Of the Yale Club,
they discussed the 1886 outlook in
the jor leagues, the future of the
game, the destinies of a Boston
club into which YaWkey has thrown
$3000,000
I'VE have beaten the depression,
and baseball will enjoy it's biggest
year since 1928" Yawkey said in re-
spouse to series of questions. My
AnlLll III bilC SolllC 10 LIlbOdllNCI- 4
am buying ball players. I will con-
tinue to buy just as long as anybody
offers men who might strengthen
the Red SoX. My willingness to
keep investing appreciate sums in
talent is founded not only on a de
sire IN bring the World Series TO the
best baseball city in the country,
but on a conviction that it is good
business.
Brightest Days Ahead
Don't let anybody tell you that
the greatest glories of baseball are
behind US No, I am not going to
tell you that the game still is in
its infancy. But the biggest tri-
umphS of baseball are ahead of us.
A $1000,0 900 World Series, with only
six games this past fall, was only
the prelude to great season in 1886
and still grander things when our
national prosperity really is re-
established
1.-THE 1885 season saw a 20 per cent
increase in attendance and receipts
in both leagues. Times were i'm
proved, and we had two corking
races. In 1886, industrial conditions
will be even better, and l am sure
that the races will be even more
interesting. In the American League,
our Red SoX will help to pep things
up. They will take the field with an
even chance against Detroit, New
York and Cleveland. Our personnel
will hn mn DC tIof IF
other club. Yes, you won't go wrong
If you promise the fans real con-
tender at Fenway Park"
Tom Has a Hunch
did you mean to tell the base
ball public that you are ready to
announce the second half of your
deal with Connie Mack-the re-
ported acquisition of Roger Cra-
mer and Eric McNair in your
100000 transaction" the inter-
viewer asked.
We'll, I do not know now" Yaw-
key replied. He may make the
deal soon. hope so, anyway. At
least I have a bunch he will. No
papers have been signed, no money
delivered. But l have a bunch"
We reminded Yawkey that three
years ago Col. Jacob Rupert had
predicted that there never again
would be a 100000 ball player. Of
course, Yawkey came along and eX-
ploded all that, first by paying
$l25,000 for Lefty Grove and then
by giving $25O,OOO in cash and Lyn
Larry for Joe Cronin.
will there be another $250,0O0
ball player? Was the Jimmy Fox
deal bigger than the Cronin trans
action?" we queried
mo You will not see another
$250000 ball player. and the Foxx
purchase does not rank, financially,
with the Cronin affair" Tom came
back.
He Wants Radical Changes
mo man is worth $250,000 TO any
club, as a player I paid that sum
for Cronin not because I had any
idea that Joe possessed that value
as shortstop. But I knew that in
our then current situation he was
worth more than what I gave to
Clark Griffith for him"
Did Yawkey have any suggestions
for changes in baseball? Yes, he
did. II am for a more radical sched-
ule. I boosted the new idea of four
intersection trips. Now, we ought
to go farther and have East against
West in the opening games. We
ought to keep moving, not doing
things as they did them 80 years
ago.
Il am in favor of field days. But
only when there is natural compe-
tition-YankeeS against Red SoX,
for example. Werber against Chap
man. Say, BenS going to stay with
the YankS after all, isn't he? Too
bad the colonel wouldn't make a
deal with me. With Chapman and
Werber. maybe we would run him
ragged, eh?'
Did he vision the extension of the
major league boundaries to Los An
geles and San Francisco? Could ne
peer into the future and see ball
clubs flying from ST. Louis to the
PaclflcP
That's too far off to talk about.
and it may never come to pass"
chuckled Yawkey. It's tough
enough to keep some of the boys
or the ground right now
Yawkey defended the major
league ban on transforming, with
elimination of trips to Japan. TOO
: much baseball, too easy life over
I there. poor exhibitions which were
mot up to the standard or dignity of
bur real oame-all killed those inn