The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-30
HoH-Outs
Few This
Winter
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

Gates that either a more ra-
tional type of player is domi-
mating the game or employ
ment outside of baseball is not
what it used to be.
Beyond our own blustery
'Buck" Newsom, the only hold
outs of record are Van Lingle
Mungo, "Arky" Vaughn and
Sammy West. The BROOKLYN
pitcher with the cyclonic de-
livery has sent back to the club
q contract calling for better than
$4,000. He won 16 games last
season and lost 10. Brooklyn fin
ished fair fifth in the league
race, and Of course didn't coin
money last year.
So it looks as though Van
Ling, has simply been the victim
Of a brainstorm.
Sammy West, one Of Roger
Hornsby's outfielders, is shifting
at an $4,000 contract from the st.
Louis club, which didn't finish
anywhere near the top, drew no
money at the gate and was able
to survive only because other
teams would buy their stars, Of
whom West doesn't seem to have
been marketable.
Make or Break Browns
West will come to his senses
when he realizes that club can't
very well contract to pay money
it doesn't see maturing either at
the gate or through the sale of
hands. After all, Sammy should
know that no one player, himself
included, is going to make or
break the Browns.
Buck" Newsom, who received
an $500 monthly increase when he
came to the Griffmen last May is
placing an additional premium
on his services for 1885, having
refrained so far from falling in
line.
In that the mid.year increase
was voluntary on the part Of the
Washington club, in that Newsom
was forced out of the game by
injury for a long spell and in
that the Washington club couldn't
possibly have finished out Of the
red last season, his position is diff.
ficult to reconcile with all fairness.
Stubborn Position
However, he is convinced he
isn't being dealt with rightly
and declares the ante will have
to go up, else he would stay in
South Carolina and help PA" do
the spring blowing.
"Shucks," allowed Buck when
/ spoke with him three weeks
ago, II can pick up couple OF
hundred dollars q week broad
castin' over that Charlotte sta
ton"
Which he might If he were in
baseball, but which he couldn't
on the outside.
I believe I know Newsom well
enough to offer the observation
he'll reason matters out differ
emily when Griff gives him a
little more silent treatment. I
think he's that type of ball
player who would be plumb
cuckoo out of the game, as much
so as he is in it.
"Arky" Vaughn, Pirate short
stop, has a just claim for a better
deal than he has been offered. He
was the leading major league hit
ter last year and is justified in
not accepting the first offer.
Dizzy" Dean cannot be classed
as a holdout, yet; as he hasn't
even been sent his contract.
All National Leaguers
Umpire Bill KLEIN, dean Of the
National League umpires, re-
Gently selected for me the 10 i'm.
mortal players Of the National
League. He picked Bill Terry for
first base; HornSby for second;
Wagner, shortstop; Traynor,
third; Paul Waner, Eddie Roush
and Max Carey for the outfield,
and Mathewson and Alexander
with King as the batteries.
Bump Hadley signed his 1886
contract with the New York Yam
KEGS before he had been member
Of that club 10 days.
Billy Evans, former umpire and
general manager at Cleveland, is
penning an interesting series Of
articles entitled plays That
Puzzle"
Jake Powell, Washington out
fielder, has been in Orlando much
Of the winter, where his young
daughter is recuperating from an
illness at their cottage beside one
of Orlando's "a lakes.
Jack Dempsey has given the in
gradients any fighter must possess
who hopes to dispose of Joe Louis.
Here's Dempsey's description of
Joe's most likely vanquiSher.
"He must have courage, the
old will to win, and be smart
enough to make Louis lead, so
he can get under his punches
and inside to work on his body
at close quarters. He'll have to
stay in there and punch and
also be clever enough to keep
Louis off balance constantly to
beat him."
Dempsey is also credited with
having said that Tunney, Tommy
Gibbons, Firpo, and possibly Greb,
might have given Louis trouble,
hit that most certainly Firpo was