The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
College Football Conspicuous Adjunct OF Academic Life
MIZE MAY GO AS CARDS SIFT
 $75O,OOO WORTH OF TALENT
NY LUTHER EVANS

St. Louis, Sept. 6-With the Cerd- 1nal incubators matching major league talent on Q wholesale scale, Branch Hickey will make one of his biggest trips to market this fall and winter.
 As matter of fact, Ivory Deal- CT Rickey is shopping around for prospective purchasers right now. He called on William Harold Ter- " of the Giants in New York the other day. After that Dizzy Dean thing he has a soft spot in his heart for the Cubs.
 Salesman Rickey is even willing to help out his one-time employe. Larry MacPhail, in Brooklyn. The Brooks are giving the Red Birds Q run for 1t at the moment, but next year will be another story, and the Dodgers may require Q few spare parts. The Reds, for example, didn't come com . up with quite enough of them
 Hickey doesnS mind strengthen ing the American League, either. at price. Nibbles by the affluent Red sox and Tigers for any of his farmhands will be welcome. Rickey is not only in the baseball busi- ness. He Is also in the ball play CT business. He controls more slaves than anybody has had since the emancipation proclamation. He has more healthy men in camps throughout the country than the United States army. PLAYERS NEVER DIE
 ON THE CARDINALS
 Baseball men declare the St Louis Nationals have $750,000 worth of new talent scattered around the land. That isn't hard to believe after looking at the phenomenal southpaw, Howard Pollet.
 Rickey's first step probably will be to dispose of Johnny Mi2e. The big first baseman is only 2s, but baseball saying is that they nev- CT die on the Cardinals.
 Rickey gets rid of 'em while the gettin's good. MiZe gets $20,000 a year and Samuel Breadon does not go in for robust salaries.
 Not when he has @ Ray Sanders to take Mizes place. Sanders, who stands feet 3 inches and weighs l90 pounds, recently was named the most valuable recruit in the American Association.
 They say Blattner, second bas- ing for the Sacramento store, can't l miss.
 Columbus, which Is to turn over Slugger Sanders, has fine short- stopping prospect in Klein. Wal ter 6essi, . 6 foot inch outfield- CT with Houston, would be ready | had not the army called.
 PITCHING SHELVES ARE WE'LL STOCKED
 There are other infielders and outfielders, but 1t is the pitching department where practically every other major league outfit is short, that the Cardinals are long. It is for this reason that Hickey may peddle couple of the older pitch CTS, say Lon Warneke and Clyde Shoun. A second strike on Warneke Is that he is well paid.
 Houston could have sent a right handler to match Pollet.
 His name is Freddie Martin, but the army gets him.
 When the Bluffs gave up Pollet | the PuzZler. Rickey simply reached down in his grab bag and came up with Norman Russell as a replace ment. Russell had copped IS while losing for Mobile of the South eastern League. Ted Wilks, youth | ful rtght-hander, has taken 20 for | Houston while losing
 Right handler Fred Munger is slated for spring delivery from Sacramento, where he is helping Pepper Martin and the Cardinal | chain to another pennant.
 GoRNICKI AND GRODZICKY AND STILL THEY COME
 Rochester has Hank Gornicki | and Max Sulkont among others. GoTnicki was returned to the AAs as a reward for turning in a one- hitter against the Phillies. Sur kont the Swift manufactured a no- hit, no-runner the other evening.
 Columbus will send Johnny Grod- zicki, hard throwing bloke.
 The Cards have two more in New Orleans in Al Jurisich and Johnny Beazley.
 At the moment, Billy South worth'S main worry is to drive the Cardinals across the line ahead of the Dodgers.
 His next problem would then be to outpoint the Yankees in the world series.
 But neither assignment figures to give Strategist Southworth more trouble than he'll have trying to decide what to do with all the new hands next spring.
 Even after Branch Hickey makes Soom for some by going to market.