The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-07
AS. ROCKIES
 TOGO SOUTH
 NEXT SPRING
Promising Gang Is Going Up When Training
 Starts for 1940
By FRITZ HOWELL JAP Feature Service)

COLUMBUS. O., Nov. When baseball's major loop clubs head for the sunny Southland next Spring, you'll find a flock of American As- sociation rockies on the rosters.
 Tn addition to about 40 players who were in the A. A. on option this year and who automatically return to their big league owners, at least a dozen others will be try Ing out for American or National loop berths as the result of outright sales.
 Pitchers and catchers dominate the list of those heading for the big time. Four of the associations out standing twirlers are on their way up. and strangely enough, all are going to the Boston clubs, two to the Bees and tw oto the Red Sox.
 The Boston Americans get Herb Hash and Bill Rutland, aces of the Minneapolis Millers. The Bees will take a look at Al Piechota of Kan sas City and Don French of In- dianapolis. Hash won p games and lost six. and was the only asSocia- tion flinger to top 20 victories. Fourteen of his victories came in a row
 Rutland Second
 Rutland was second in games won with 19, while losing To- Piechota won l6 and lost T, and French won Is and dropped II.
 Three catchers are moving up, with Bill Baker of Indianapolis go- ing to the Cincinnati Reds, Clyde Mccullough of Kansas City to the Chicago Cubs, and George Lacy of Minneapolis to the Boston Red Sox
 Baker. best hitter of the back stops, had a .338 average for 93 games. His 102 bingles included 3l doubles, a triple and three home runs. Lacy, in l08 games, hit .28S, but he had Is doubles, two triples and 20 round -trippers. McCul- tough had PIT mark for 108 con- tests.
 The only infielders going up, other than those on option, are pair of shortstops, Harold (Pee-Wee) Reese of Louisville, and Jimmy Pofahl of Minneapolis. Reese goes to the Brooklyn Dodgers, Pofahl to Wash ington.
 Pofahl compiled a batting aver age of 1902 in 146 games. He scored 128 runs on TIC hits which included S5 doubles, nine triples and l9 horn- CTS. He stole seven sacks and drove in "A runs.
 Reese hit .279 in 149 games and was the loops speed king with 35 stolen bases. He was at bat sos times, crossed the platter 78 times on Al hits. His only organized baseball experience is two years with the Colonels.
 Reds Get Fielders
 Two of the leagues center-field- CTS were nabbed by the Cincinnati Reds. They are Vince DiMaggio of Kansas City, once with Boston's Bees, and Myron (Mike) McCor- mick of Indianapolis.
 Mccormick hit at a 318 pace in 149 games, scored an even 100 runs on 174 hits in SAT times at bat, banged out B doubles, nine triples and two home runs, stole l5 bases, and drove in 61 markers.
 Di Maggie, the leagues home run ruler, hit 290 and led the loop in runs driven in with 136. He played 154 games before going up to the Reds at the end of the season. scored 122 runs on 1858 hits good for 346 total bases, and had 32 doubles; nine triples and 46 circuit clouts. DiMaggio topped off his perform ance with 21 stolen bases.
 Outfielder Milton Galatzer and pitcher Johnny Niggeling of h. annapolis, ard Hurler Nate An drews of Columbus were sold to oaior lc7~'1e clubs before the end of the season for immediate deliv- cy. Nio~7lirg and Galatzer went the Cincinnati Reds, and Andrews the parent St. Louis Cardinals
 The draft is expected to elevate averal c'her stars. including some the loop's leading hitters.
  man, who led the league in hitting with .3.3, Bob Wright, Minneapolis utfie 'e'' third in hitting with .337; Phil Weintraub. Minneapolis first ooI,1,, f;f+ln ..,;+I o,,J Cna LaY