The Washington times., 1936-03-16
Chain System
Sox Program
In Future
Bv FRANK 'BUCK" O'NEILL

ORLANDO, Fla, March 16.
Tom Yawkey, the man who put
baseball back on the gold stand.
ard has said once more that he
is through with buying fantasti'
cally-priced ball players.
This is not a new idea with Mr..
Yawkey. He swore off late last
fall, just before spending more
than quarter of million dollars
for Jimmy Foxx, Doc Cramer,
Johnny Marcum and Eric McNair,
and it is quite possible that he'll
slip UP again and unpeel his roll,
for the roll is mighty and there Is
more where that came from.
But, until that time at least, he
is through for keeps.
Tom Yawkey, you see, knows il
can happen. He sat in a box here
at Tinker Field the other day and
saw his bizarre ball club get hit
with everything but the water
bucket in a baseball scrap against
the Washington Senators. He
knows now that there are better
teams under the sun than the one
which cost him $4,000, ,000-and
that maybe even the lowly Sena'
tors are one Of those teams.
Can't Buy Pennant
But it is not with feeling Of
disgust that Yawkey has given
up ball player buying this time.
He is simply bowing to an age
old baseball tradition that here
tofore he regarded as shopworn
hearsay. Tom Yawkey Is young
business man, and a great one.
When he entered baseball he de-
cided to get a winner and get
it in the quickest way. He was
inclined to laugh when old heads
nodded sagely and said that PEN
nants never are bought. Tom
couldn't believe that.
His appointment of Billy Evans
as head of the rapidly growing
Red Sox chain system is really
the first sign Of Yawkey's sur
render to the unwritten laws Of
baseball.
"We're going to develop play.
ers, not buy them, after this"
Yawkey told this writer, setting
his firm jaw and looking out
over Tinker Field with those
gray eyes he owns, land Billy
Evans is the finest man We
could find along those lines.
He picked Joe VOsmik up off
the Cleveland SandlOtS, and also
brought to light Hal TroSky
and most of Cleveland'S other
great young ball players. Evans
has contacts all over the cOun.
try that are unbeatable. 1
doubt if there is one more whose
finger is on the pulse Of base
ball than Billy'S. He knows
players by the thousands, and
better still, knows the men who
can lead him to more and
more talent"
We wanted to know if that
meant that Yawkey was disap.
pointed in his 1885 machine.
''NO, no, not at all. We've got
a great ball club, believe. It
may not win-Only the best Of
breaks would see to that-but
believe we've got young
enough ball club to go along as
we are for a couple of years,
and depend on Evans and our
farms to produce the necessary
few replacementS."
NEWSOME STOPS SOX
YaWkey's great ball club"
looked something less than that
against the Senators. It ran head
long into the finest pitcher in
baseball at the moment-Buck
NewSom-whose great rubbery
arm is in tune with July. The big
windmiller really bore down on
the Sox, and proved to everyone's
satisfaction, perhaps even to Yaw.
keys, that the Sox are not q
great ball club, and perhaps never
will be in the face Of firSt-claSS
pitching.
The Croninmen seemed to lack
the spark that has marked the
progress of the Senators so far
this season. The Bostonians took
the field with careless lope that
as much as said that there was
little use to play the 154 games
on the American League schedule.
But along came Newsom, with his
binding speed, and home-run
hitting by Jess Hill and Young
Buddy Lewis, and even a triple
by Sr. Roberto EStalella. It was
rather washed out gross of Sox
who departed from Orlando after
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