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Trade
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can't sell Bonura because the Blues
which can afford to pay his salary
already are fortified on first base.
He can't send him to Jersey City be-
cause Cd zeke probably wouldn't
go and ca, he'd demand too much
money.
It's dirty trick on the part of
the self-appointed detectives to
trouble themselves on the score after
having been assured by Griff that
he doesn't want Bonura. But they
are doing 1t and it's being passed
along for what it's worth.
Oh, yes, fellow must like to
play fan tan quite a bit to travel
ia miles by auto at night. That
is what Zeke did the other evening.
He drove from the Giants camp at
Winterhaven. where he is working
out but unsigned. Just to play
cards with the boys" gushed Zeke,
happily. 1T Just makes me feel
good to be around the old gang
again."
Shortstops Plentiful Here.
Griffith'S only reason for chang
ing his mind and bringing Quick
to camp, he said. was for Short
stop protection" He announced he
was wiring Hal shortly after Jimmy
Pofahl was shaken in a collision on
the field with an umpire in Mon
days game against Kansas City. He
still had Charley Colbert and, in
pinch, Ossie Bluege still can play
a mess O. infield. But Quick was
called down, although previously
Griffith and Manager Bucky Harris
had declared that he couldn't help
the Washington club.
1t all seems to dovetail but, of
course it all could be wild theory.
too. Quick's size is against him as
a major Lacquer. The Mats have
Pofahl, for whom they reportedly
paid $4,000, and the Giants have
Bill Jurges. But Quick is rated as
good minor league ballplayer and
if Terry is to rid himself of Bonura
for pittance, or have his 5000
purchase idling in New Orleans he
might as well let him go to another
league. where Zeke can't haunt the
Giants, and simultaneously help his
own farm club in the International
League.
Zeke Still Good Hitter.
Zeke wasn't exactly washout
during the year he spent with the
Mats in 1898. He led the club in
home runs and in runs batted in.
He wasn't complete flop with the
Giants last year, either, after Terry
bought him in December of 1898.
He topped the Giants in hitting,
runs driven across and homers. His
fielding, of course, is little hard
to swallow at times, but, as Zeke
himself puts it, You can't have
everything"
The Mats, of course, wanted Rudy
York from the Tigers to play first
base. Detroit, however, killed their
chances of acquiring Rudy for the
time being by switching Hank
Greenberg to the outfield. This.
though, doesn't alter the fact that
Griffith and Harris figured they
needed another strong right-handed
hitter in the lineup, and if Bonura
isn't a York, he isn't far off as a
facsimile
The I-smell- something boys aren't
under the illusion that Quick, alone,
will bring Bonura, no matter now
Terry doesn't want Zeke. But Quick
and Eddie Leip, who burned up the
Sally League last year, might bring
him, and, certainly, the Mats could
spare both, because of the presence
of Pofahl, Jimmy Bloodworth, Bud
dy Myer, Colbert, and even Bluege.
Meanwhile, major league clubs
usually find it helpful to be nice
to their farm teams. The Giants
lifted Second Baseman Mickey
Witek from Jersey City this year,
and it may be that Leip would be
a handy lad for Terry's farm to own.