The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-26
Dykes Eye For Waiver List Prizes
Gives ChiSox Surprising Ball Club
Canniest Trader Builds
Contender With Out
casts, LeftOvers And
Discards
BY DILLON GRAHAM
Sports Editor. AP Feature Servic

NEW YORK, May 26.-Jimmy
Dykes, the squatty squire behind
the stogie, has shown that you
don't need hunk of dough to
build a baseball club if you've got
a discerning eye for ivory.
At the end of the first five
weeks of the American league
season, Dykes had skippered his
Chicago White Sox, a gang with
out single high-priced perform
er, into second place.
Besides being a clever mana
ger, the best of the dugout joe
keys, and a loquacious umpire
dresser-down, Dykes is just about
the canniest trader around the
diamond.
He's foxier than the Old Fox,
Clark Griffith And he has out
foxed Griffith several times.
Jimmy's eyes are weary from
scanning the major league Waiv-
er lists for broken-doWn ath-
letes who might be rejuvenated.
He's ACQUIRED fallen arches from
tramping from one baseball bar
gain counter to another in search
for grey-beards or sore-arms
who just possibly might have
another good year in them. But
he's built a contending club out
of these outcasts, left-overs and
discards.
Can't Understand 1t
He'll, he observes, ION paper
we don't belong in the same
league with Cleveland, but we
amt a fur piece behind 'em
now.
Were just playing winning
ball l can't explain why, if l look
at the averages. Because we amt
hitting-we're last in the league.
we're no fielding geniuses, and
we amt knocking in many runs.
But we are getting good pitch
ing.
Don't know how long it'll
keep up, he commented, taking
a long, black cigar from his kiss
err and delicately knocking off
the ashes.
1.-The White Sox amt spent
any real cabbage for a ball play
er since they bought me-, he
said. Then he laughed. He likes
to explain that he and Mule Haas
were tossed in as ballast when
the Sox bought Al Simmons
from the Athletics back in 1882
for $150,000.
"They didn't do so bad, at
that, he said. "They got them
selves a manager-me-and
coach-Mule--and they sold Sim
mons for $4,000.
The entire White Sox squad
cost less than the Chicago Cubs
paid for their latest coach, j.
Herman Dean. Old Dir cost the
Cubs $l85.000 and several play
ers when he was purchased sew
eral years ago as a pitcher
Appling Expensive
Luke Appling, shortstop and
top hitter, was bought for ap-
proxinatelv $4,000 in cash and
players. But Dykes hurries to
explain that that extravagant
flourishing of greenbacks oc-
Cured in 1880. before he came
to the Windy City. No one else
cost near that much
Dykes latest acquisitions,
Pitcher Lee Ross from the AS
and Outfielder Myril Hoag from
the Browns, came at the $500
waiver price
Taft WriRht, the clubs top hit
ting outfielder last year (3S0,
and Pete Appleton. relief pitcher,
came from Washington in a swan
for Gee Walker Walker hadn't
cost great deal either, for he
and Mike fresh, youngSter who
developed into a good catcher,
reached the Sox in a six-player
deal with the Tigers
Thornton Lee, the No, hurl-
or, was botained in a barter for
john Salveson, q hurler who
didn't last long in the majors,
Second Baseman Bill Knicker-
booker came from the Yankees
in swap for a substitute catch
or, Ken SilveStri, Julius Solters
was oh'ained from the Browns
for Rip Radcliffe. who hadn't
cost much. Dario Lodigiani.
third baSeman. came from the
AS for hurler Jack Knott.
Fancy Dealing
Inhelder Jimmy Webb. pitch
erS Jack Hallett, catchers Tom
Turner and George Diekey all
cost less than $1,000 each
Pitchers Bill Dietrich and Ed
cat Smith came on waivers. Joe
Kulscl first baSeman, was OBJ
taIh he'd from Washington for Zeke
Benura who had cost around
$G.n00 and is no longer in the
majors, OVifeldcr Lawrence Ro-
sSlthal cost $4,000 and Nike
kreevich, another flychaSeF.
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