The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
New York Yankees
 Facing Greatest Shakeup Of Years
BY JOE WILLIAMS

4NAesAAJ OA 0esoC0A4A Q 61 1CoSGCOt 0J6AkG1 among the New York Yankees, have suffered of years. This could have happened to Dickey and the others. Good hitters like Dickey don't lose their skill all of a sudden. It will be another year before you can get the full answer to his standing as a Yankee. This is one of the req sons why neither Barrow nor Me- Carthy can speak with any great confidence on the makeup of the 1941 Yankees.
 But there is one thing you can go to sleep on: There will be more new faces in the Yankee camp next spring than has ben the case in a number of years. Practically every player in the farm system who has immediate big league potentianties will be brought in for inspection.
 This will be the first major test the farm system has been called on to meet. It is the belief in inform ed baseball circles that the Yankee farm system is the best in the busi- ness. That this may be so was i1- dicated by the spectacular manner in which young Bonham came through in the closing stages, of the season. When the Yankees deSper- ately needed pitching help in a crisis they tapped the resources of their farm system and came up with a pitcher who saved the club.
 Baseball tourists tell us there are other Bonhams attached to the va. rious Yankee farms, notably the Newark and Kansas City affiliateS. Right now they are merely names in minor league box scores but next year they may be stars in Yankee uniforms, picking up where the Ruff fings and the Gomezs appear to be leaving off.
 Indeed, it is altogether possible that the 1941 Yankees will be even stronger than the best club Mo- Carthy ever put together. If re- ports drifting in from the hinter- lands are even reasonably accurate McCarthy's chief worry next spring will be in deciding which player is better than his closest rival.
 What About Gordon.
 It seems inevitable that there will be experiments all over the infield. It has already been announced that Priddy and Rizzuto will be brought up from Kansas City. They repre-. sent the haShy second base combin- ation which set a new record for double plays this year.
 At one time Barrow had the thought he would have to break up the combination which has worked together ever since the two young men signed their first professional contracts. More recently the Yankee president has indicated he intends to give the pair 8 chance to show their stuff under McCarthy'S gaze intact. Where would this leave Joe Gordon, acclaimed only a year ago as one of the greatest young sec ond baSemen of all time?
 This is another one of those things about which it is almost silly to speculate until actual work begins in the spring. At this moment neither Barrow nor Mccarthy can be sure that Priddy is going to shape up as better second base man than Gordon, and obviously that's what he must do to get the job.
 ROlfe On Third?
 Suppose Priddy does succeed in forcing Gordon of the bag and over to third, as the mind readers in the press box seem to feel would be the solution-what then would become of Red Rolfe who still looks like a big League third baseman? That's another matter which must be filed away for training camp enlight- ment. Certainly Rolfe isn't going to give up the bag without a fight.
 And there's the case of Babe Dahlgren. Can the revamped Yan- kees still afford to carry meek hit ter at the one position on the dia- mond where heavy hitters are SUD- posed to dwell? For the greater part of the season Dahlgren'S work was more than acceptable. It was un- fortunate that when he did falter his lapses came in two of the most vital series of the season-the re- cent road games against Cleveland and Detroit.
 The only definite thing about Dahlgren'S future is that he faces a light for his job. A young first base man by the name of Sturm is com- ing up from Kansas City along with the brilliant double play kings. Obviously he isn't being brought up just for the train ride. Mccarthy want to find out if he's good enough 10 replace Dahlgren. If he is, he must get the job, of course.