The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-12
NO WHOLESALE
SHAKEUP FOR
ClBSPLANNED
Wngley Through With Big
Cash Trades; Gabby Can
Have New Contract
Rv ERLEST BARCELLA
- Press Staff Correspondent


CHICAGO, Oct. II. Nuf11::-
While everyone else was tfaulhs
off virtually his entire team
Owner Phil X. Wrigley OF the
Cb;Iago Cubs said last night that
onv thought OF wholesale shake
mn of the club, which spurted 70
the National league pennant ohiE
to fold up in the world SERIES was
ridiculous. ,,,oo
The Youthful chewing gum mag
,,tn also limited broadly that ne
was through laying out large sums
Of cash for players and cleared up
these points: C.tbv
Manager Catcher Gabby
Hartnett will be offered one
wear contract.
, Deals will be made TO
strengthen the Cubs for the 1857
campaign. ,i.bo..
iii have q Mace in the Cubs or
ganization in 1889.
4. 1t is .planned to make new ar
engagements with minor league
rIubs to develop young players.
Wrioley. who returned from
New York Tuesday, said re didn't
know ANYTHING" about a wholesale
shakeup of the Cubs. Only yes
terday, Hartnett, bitterly dlSap-
pointed by his teams showing
AGAINST the New York Yankees;
said he was ready to trade or sell
ANYBODY on the team except
Pitchers Dizzy Dean, Bill Lee and
CLAY Bryant and Thirdbaseman
Stan Hack. -,
"Gabby was in to see me this
afternoon" Wrigley said. Were
going to. cool down before we DO
anything.
''From all reports, apparently
the whole club was traded of eX-
cept four players. 1t doesn't seem
possible. to me to make whole.
sale shakeup. You can't trade off
,36 ball players, out of the 40 or
IL that would be on the clu0
roster. It's ridiculous. We VIII
so some dealing to strengthen the
club, however"
Wrigley said he was ready to
get together with Hartnett any
time to discuss plans for 1889.
}. The contract to be offered to
Hartnett will be for one year,
Wrigley said, explaining that's
as long as any of our contracts
run" ..
Asked about the position of
Lazerri, who was signed as player
coach last year after II seasons
with the. Yankees, Wrigley assert
ed:
IF he wants to stay with us
Wen have a place for him in our
organization. l can't say what his
position would be, but I'd like to
have him with us"
The young magnate, limiting
that he was through laying out
large sums of cash, said he was
anxious to develop young players.
"You can't buy team" he
said. You've got to develop
men. I'd like to see little faster
JuIHONSI III SOULS pay Si .
There's no sense in keeping them
on the bench all year and not
using them. You might as well
have them in the minor leagues
where you can develop them and
find out there whether they are
major league material or not.
"In that connection, Pm work
ing on a plan for a new kind of
arrangement with the minor lea
CUES that would be beneficial to
both parties. 1t would be along
the lines of the present system of
working agreements"
While gueSSers had the Cubs
trading off men like Billy Her
man, Bill urges, Rip Collins and
Ken 0'Dea for players like Gus
Manchuso and Hank Leiber of the
New York Giants, Johnny Mize,
Stu Martin OF Joe Medwick of the
st. Louis Cardinals and rArky
Vaughan of the Pittsburgh Pr
rates, Wrigley had no single in
dividual in mind, "offhand," he
said, I'D swap for those New
York Yankees" .t-.....