Evening star., 1942-09-01
Griffith Amino
To Rid His Club
OF Worn LOT
Rebuilding Storted
With Acquisition
OF Moore, Krous
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

BY BURTON HAWKINS.
When Boss Clark Griffith of the
Mats cleans house he isn't content
with a light busting. Within the
past "a hours Griffith has disposed
of some of his more expensive brio
a-brac and he is indicating he has
just begun to WELD the mop.
Sold to the Brooklyn Dodgers
has been Pitcher Buck Newson, and
peddled to the New York Yankees
has been Outfielder Roy Cullenbine.
To the Mats from Montreal will
come Pitcher Jack Kraus and Out
fielder Gene Moore as Griffith
launches construction of what he
hopes will be more formidable
l943 team.
Zealously Griffith has plunged into
swapping and selling spree that
may find only a half dozen Mats
retaining their jobs. Backbone of
the new Mats will be such perform
ers as Pitchers Sid Hudson, Dutch
Leonard and Walter Masterson, Out
ielders Stan Spence and George
Case and Shortstop Johnny Sulli-
van,
Moore Bats .32O Clip.
Griffith probably will be willing to
take what he can get for the others.
He has been disappointed in the
performance of First Baseman
Mickey Vernon and Catchers Jake
Early and AL Evans. He won't be
hurt, either if tempting offers are
made for such as Bruce Campbell,
Bobby Estalella, Jimmy Pofahl, FL
lis Clary or Bill Trotter.
Griffith has made up his mind to
rearrange the furniture and he
apparently will be more thorough
about it than Mandy the maid. He
started with two of his more noted
chattels and he's limiting he'll get
around to some others.
Moore, a 3l-year-old left-handed
hitter who has spanked Montreals
attack with 800 batting average,
and Kraus, a southpaw who has
won II games and lost 10 with the
Royals, will report to the Mats at
the end of the International League
season.
Ex-NatS Booted Upstairs.
Moore is no stranger to major
league baseball. He has served with
the Cards, Reds, Braves and Dod-
gers. Griffith says knee injury,
now healed, resulted in his release
by the Dodgers and that he'll bring
sorely needed power to the Mats.
Kraus will come to the Mats as
part payment for Newsom, who is
believed to have brought an addi-
tional $4,000 in cash. Although
Montreal is a Brooklyn farm team,
Griffith says the Moore deal was
unrelated to the Newson-Kraus- cash
transaction. I'D been trying to get
Moore for several weeks" informs
Griffith, "and 1t was separate cash
deal"
Newsom and Cullenbine both were
booted upstairs, probably into World
Series cuts. Certain of good World
Series slice is Cuuenbine, for the
Yankees are noted for their gener-
osity in distributing series coin.
Injecting additional color into the
rainbow-hued Dodgers will be the
chesty, strutting Newsom. He'll fit
in perfectly with the ranting. raving
Leo Durocher and Larry MacPhail.
Newsom Much Shifted Hurlcr.
One of the American Leagues
f,.ov w fio,, 1o{ tf11a
ers, Newsom has played for 13 clubs
in eight leagues. His transfer to
Brooklyn will mark his third time
in Dodger uniform. He came up
as rookie in 1929 and Immediately
captured $25 prize offered by Man
ager Wilbert Robinson of the
Dodgers for displaying the best con-
troll in rs pitches at special target.
True to his unpredicability, New
som two weeks later was in the
minors again because of wildness.
He failed to stick again the follow
ing year and soon began his moving
around among st. Louis, Boston,
Washington and Detroit.
His best year on a won-and- lost
basis was 1910, when he was a
prominent character in bringing the
American League pennant to De-
troit. Buck won 81 games and lost
only five that year, won two games
in the World Series against the
Reds and lost 81 decision to Paul
Derringer with only one days rest
and less than "a hours after the
death of his father. In 1888, he
equalled the American League record
by striking out six consecutive
Yankees.
Cullenbine Goes for $500.
Newsom admittedly allowed him.
self to get out of shape last season,
when he won II games and lost 20
with the Tigers. The Tigers offered
Newsom a contract that called for
huge reduction in salary and Buck
(See HAWKINS, Page abb