The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-08
TELLER TO BE FREE AGENT IS
 LATEST DOPE
O'NeiI to Be Dropped if Cleveland Loses Young
 Mound Star
By GEORGE KIRKsEY


 Limited Press Stan COrrespondent)
 New York, oct. 8--(UP)-A rec ord crop of rumorS flooded the base ball world today.
 None are guaranteed, but where there's smoke there's fire and here they are:
 Bob Teller, Cleveland's sensational IT year old schoolboy pitcher, will be declared a free agent by Com- missioner K. M. LandiS.
 Thaet decision, which took first place in the interest of all baseball owners and fans, will result in the greatest one-man auction in the games history. The million dollar Boston Red Sox and the world championship New York Yankees will match their bulging bankrolls for Feller'S services.
 With the Red Sox, led by Billy Evans, former Cleveland general manager and original discoverer of Teller, favored to win, 8 victory will result in the dismissal of General Manager c. c. Slapnicka and Field Manager Steve o'Neill by the h. dianS.
 Baseball's forgotten man, Babe Ruth, will be installed as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, succeed ing the deposed Casey Stengel, when Col. Tillinghast Huston, former part owner of the Yankees, completes negotiations to purchase the Flat bush franchise.
 Coach Hans Lobart will succeed Jimmy Wilson aS manager of the Lowly Phillies. Wilson probably will go to Pittsburgh as catcher, 8 desperate need of the Pirates.
 Chuck Dresser, regarded as the best developer of young talent in baseball, will quit as manager of the Cincinnati Reds in general shake up, which already has resulted in the resignation of Larry McPhail.
 Rogers Hornsby, because of a contract which has two years to run, will continue the hopeless task of trying to bring the St. Louis Browns out of baseball's wilderness.
 The Chicago Cubs, ordered to get ball players who get their uniforms dirty, will open their rebuilding program by acquiring First Base man Rip Collins from the St. Louis gas house gang in exchange for a pitcher.
 St. Louis Cardinals will get Van Mungo from Brooklyn if ownership of the Dodgers does not change hands.
 Outfielder Bob Seeds, now baseball's greatest transient, will find 8 new home with the New York Giants, arriving via the waiver route from the Yankees.
 First Basen1an Zeke Bonura and Pitcher John Whitehead of the Chi cago White Sox will be traded to Washington for First Baseman Joe Kuhel.
 Catcher Virgil Davis of the Car dinals will go to the Cincinnati Reds in an involved deal which may send Babe Herman back to his beloved Brooklyn via the Cardinals.
 Freddy Lindstrom, who voluntarily retired from the Brooklyn Dodgers, will return to the majors.
 The New York Giants will buy Joe Stripp from Brooklyn to replace Third Baseman Travis Jackson, who will have his choice of remaining with the club as a coach or managing the Jersey City club.
 Rabbit Maranville, who managed the Elmira club of the New York Pennsylvania league last season, will become pilot of the Montreal Royals.
 Outelder George Puccinelli of the Athletics will be sold to the Balti- more International league club.
 Catcher Luke Sewell of the White Sox. his playing days almost at an end, will coach and develop pitch ing talent for Jimmy Dykes.
 Col. Jacob Ruppert gave $1,000 bonus to each member of his world champion Yankees.