Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-12-14
Some Too Poor
To Try Plan 10
Stop Ho|douts
Many Trades Still in
Air, but Meeting Is
Mostly q Gobfest
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-The big
league baseballers still are meeting
all over the premises, and nothing
much has happened yet, except that
the boys from the National League
side of the family have gone on
record as not exactly opposing the
! yellow ball.
The heavyweight thinkers of the
two leagues are making noble eff
fort to get together and construct
some news. BY and large. it turns
out that they mostly are only meet
ing and cutting up old touches.
Baseball men have to get together
ever so often to talk, whether they
say anything or not. They simply
like to talk.
Yesterday the American Leaguers
were arguing about the radio. They
did not want to injure minor league
territory by batting the customers
away from minor league games with
broadcasts of big league struggles.
Will Harridge finally got around to
saying the club owners were agreed
that any club that wished to make
arrangements for the radio broad
casting of its games might do so.
Dodgers Peeve Giants.
The National League follows the
same sort of scheme. leaving the
question of broadcasting to its in
dividual members. Brooklyn has
announced it will radio its games
next season, and the New York
Giants are very sore about it.
The question of night baseball
also is troubling the American
Leaguers. The circuit never has had
night baseball, although permission
was granted the st. Louis Browns
to play under lights two years ago.
1t looks now as though night ball
will make its debut in the league
next season.
A rule governing night baseball
is being prepared and will be pre-
sented to the owners at today's
meeting. Like the rule in the
National, probably it will limit each
team to seven night games. But
unlike the National League rule, it
will be permanent. It will not have
to be readopted each year.
The American League practically
has committed itself to a dead"
ball something like the one used
by the National League last year.
The National Leaguers have voted
to carry Is men on each teams
pay roll. The American Leaguers
cling to their limit of % men per
team, but they may have two
men on the disability list" which
amounts to the same thing.
Many Trades in Making.
There still are many trades in the
air Cleveland still is trying to ped
die some players and is talking al
most constantly about it with De-
troit. Something may come of it,
The Yankees, alone. are not in the
marts. Having won the World Series
three times running, they expect
to win it again as they stand.
AS expected, both leagues voted
down the suggestion of Col. Jake
Rupert, owner of the Yankees. that
ball players be paid their salaries
from the beginning Of spring train
ing, in order to discourage holdouts.
Some clubs, sad to say, can't pay any
sort of salaries until the season is
well advanced and there is new
money in the till.
The Boston Bees have another 300
hitter in their line-up-that makes
tWo-having obtained Buddy Has
sett in yesterdays deal with Brook
lyn. The Brooklyns likewise think
they stoutened their fences with the
acquisition of Gene Moore, an out
fielder, and Ira Hutchinson, pitch
er, in the same deal.
! Then after everything had quoted
down the Bees and Brooklyns
snapped again. This time Joe Strip,
the third baseman, went from Bos-
ton in exchange for Fred Farmhouse
an aged, righthanded curve ball
pitcher. in deal which means even
less than you think.