Budge, Pressed by Armstrong, Again Is Voted Nation's Outstanding Athlete
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A—14 WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1938. Budge, Pressed by Armstrong, Again Is Voted Nation’s Outstanding Athlete THE HOT-AIR LEAGUE -By JIM BERRYMAN Rackefer Polls ose or f I THOUGHT yoiM /heavensTT^opT^ WERE All- divie OUT OP MV WAV' you \ / DH DE AC! I'M fo QLAdN } SHE PlpM'T HEAR ME HALFBACK'. AMD I 20RN 0N A'SHOPPER'S-' YOU'RE HERE AT LAST ' MAKE that crack TOE1. IVE GOT EIGHT Winter | \ I VOU CAM'T GET / 122 Points and Meeting Critics Say Terry Bested Old Fox; SENATORS LEFT TO 6ET ) MR.PiLLyFRIPPLE! I TRIED ) ABOUT TH' THROUGH A X/AAS MINUTES OU6HTA { FOR Too However, to Tell About Bonura Deal To QUIET HER.. AH' SHE / PITCH IN' STAFF SHOPPING CROWD \ NINE PRESENTS Early, MV HUS&AND'S Told me it was time t \ WEAR. BLOODy APROHS WITHOUT GETTING / THAT'S WHAT \ Bv FRANCIS E. STAN, LEARNED ABOUT TH’HIT AN’ ) ’CAUSE A BLACK EVE AND ) -^AMIUV \Jf 104 Star Staff Ringman Correspondent. run play --An she smacked / MOST BUTCHERS /S' losing AIOW ME WITH OWE OF OUR OWA) ( / GERTRUDE^, NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Some of the more imaginative bystanders K, WEAR! YouRHAiy' SWEET, DON'T > HOLLY WREATHS AH' SAID (MY already are going around the Winter baseball meeting haunts and touting " °AJOW RUM AWAy ! S;-^ to) lose your temper'. Pitcher Vander Meer Manager Bill Terry of the Giants as the year's ranking David Harum. The /MADAME. MADAME1. > ■ REMEMBER TH'TIME , latest deal by Terry was supposed to have earned him the nod over Mr. Old Poor i beg of you' this THAT POLICEAAAM Third; Diamond Fox Griffith. It seems the Terrible f / Terry gave poor old Grandpappy Griff IS A DEPARTMENT I MADE A AlASTV / a of Leads in Nominees pair confirmed bush leaguers, a cigar, a bundle of cash and walked off STORE1 WE ARE REMARK ABOUT l with Zeke who will / Bonura, bring the National League pennant back to /DEFIMITELY NOT WES FERRELL AND J New York. That, at least, is what are This a they saying. EESPOMSIBLE FoR I YOU KICKED HIS/ (Note: is first of series During the minor league in New Orleans Mr. made a OUT analyzing results of the eighth meeting Terry WHAT MR GRIFFITH L UPPERS ! J trade with the Cubs. He sent annual Associated Press sports Chicago them Shortstop Dick Bartell, Poes with the Catcher Gus poll. It deals with replies of the Mancuso and Outfielder Hank Leiber. In exchange he re- (3EMTLEMEM WHO y Nation's sports editors to the ceived Shortstop Bill Jurges, Catcher Ken O'Dea and Outfielder Frank PLAV BASEBALL / [ question: Who was the year's Demaree. Off this deal Bill was credited with a close victory over the V FOR. him outstanding performer, among Cubs because O'Dea is much than Mancuso and Demaree younger at least — men, in any sport, amateur or has a J been regular. Outside of the fact that Mancuso can't hit, O'Dea professional?) can’t throw out base runners, Leiber has been a perennial failure and Bartell is about washed up, the more conservative observers have nothing By HERBERT W. BARKER, WOT I Associated Press Sports Writer. to say. ^^HA'S SAID^C Fit's vounojittera7 NEW YORK. Dec. 12.—For the There seems to be no way of sizing up a baseball deal with assur- any second year in succession. Don ance of correctness. It takes at n SWAPPERS LIKE your \ Budge least a full season to prove anything. is d THAT MADE GRIFF mL ranked as the Nation's No. 1 Terry needed a major league first baseman for the Giants. He wanted and athlete. landed (SET RID OFA FINE K1 Bonura. Now it isn’t definitely known wether he has a big leaguer ; The lanky, red-haired Californian, on the or i Boy LIKE bag not, but at least the Giants are a more powerful offensive ZEKEjJK who negotiated an unprecedented team for the deal. tennis in , sweep winning the Aus- British Washington received one Tom Baker, who says he is a pitcher, and tralian, French, and Amer- a James A. ican titles in one year before elect- Carlin, who is rumored to be an infielder. Baker won 8 games ing to cast his lot with the profes- and lost 22 for Jersey City of the International League last year. Carlin sionals, was named as the No. 1 played first, second and third bases, and also the outfield for the shortstop athlete for 1938 by 26 of the 63 sports Richmond Colts of the Piedmont League. Washington also received some Experts who participated in the As- cash. How much isn’t known, but whether Griffith won or lost on the deal sociated Press’ eighth annual poll. will on whether probably depend it was $10,000 or more. Armstrong IX Points Behind. In sharp contrast, however, to his Griff Says He's Going to Buy a Player /^HOLY SMOKE1 AN"^ run-away triumph in last year's bat- WAS'IF tle of ballots, Budge was hard- Off their records Baker and Carlin do ( ALL I SAID SAY not figure to help the Senators \\ /\'T> THAT^, pressed this time by Henry Arm- next CECIL TRAVIS IS AlO 4J year. Baker, who is 23 years old, seems to be one of those imposing 'gal’s allsetfer \ strong, great Negro fighter, who set BETTER IN A PARKED A figures for whom a great future always is predicted. Terry was talking CHRISTMAS! WITH \ up a new all-time boxing record by about him "He's 6 2 CAR THAN HE IS WITH the today. feet inches,” Will was saying, “and he’ll be as fl A BEAUTIFUL SOCK holding featherweight, light- fast as ON and anybody the Washingtons have got. That goes for Parkyarcarcuss, MEN BASE. HE M -- AN' < weight welterweight champion- | ^ ON TH'NOSE at or whatever his name is.” Mr. did ships the same time. Terry not explain at length how Baker I CAN TEAR. UP MY a well-filled failed to do Armstrong, drawing 19 first-place anything at Brooklyn and with the Giants, after he was traded i Telephone ajumber' STOCKING-toW-SUn! votes, wound up only 18 points be- for Freddie Fitzsimmons in 1937. A V hind the tennis ace in the final Carlin may be dismissed for the time It is a difficult being. long, jump tabulation, based on three points from the Piedmont to the Even in a class D majors. circuit the kid hasn’t for first choice, two points for sec- found his position. He started as a first baseman and w’as shifted to third. ond and one for third. Budge's total Then he was tried at short, second base and, finally, the outfield. was 122 points: Armstrong's 104. Griffith and Terry refused to announce the cash that passed hands. It was strictly a two-man race. "It was a Johnny Vander Meer, Cincinnati pretty good amount, though,” said Griff. “It was enough for me Reds’ southpa*. who pitched two to buy myself another ball player from some club in our league.” successive no-hit. no-run games, A good guess might be $10,000. This isn't exhorbitant, considering polled only 37 points to finish in that Terry was supposed to have for paid $40,000 last year Bill Cissell, third place. Football provided the who couldn’t move off a dime and was released. As for buying “a ball fourth-place winner in Little Davey from our player league” Griffith must be talking of a waiver-price athlete. O'Brien. Texas Christian's quarter- One who comes to mind is Julius Solters, with whom Cleveland is expected back. Marshall Goldberg of Pitts- to a burg was the other part. With little fresh cash with which to draw upon it may develop only footballer that Griffith will mentioned in the poll. claim Solters for the $7,500 waiver price and see if he Baseball Leads in Nominees. can t get more out of Julius than did the Red Sox, Browns and Indians. Baseball led all other sports In the number of nominees. The ‘'na- New York Italians Will Like Big Zeke ONE OF GRTFFS "FRIDAY FANS THROWS tional pastime’’ was represented in the It isn't poll not only by Vander Meer. unreasonable to suspect that Terry made a good move in A COUPLE OF FAST ONES WHEN SHE but also by Hank of the getting Bonura. The big fellow is fair at catching thrown balls, but he is I-1 Greenberg TUNES IN ON A TRIO OF FAIR SHOPPERS Detroit Tigers: Jimmie Foxx of the unpardonable on grounders. He can't run the bases and every time he is Boston Red Sox; Fred Hutchinson, at the with a runner on WHO FAVOR DUMPING CECIL TRAVIS plate first base he is fair prey for a double play. Seattle pitching sensation; Bill Lee. He will wear down Terry’s pitchers, making them cover first base on every AND ZEKE EON UR A OM THE MARKET. Cubs' right-hander, and Joe Gor- roller more than three feet from the bag, but, for all of his faults, Zeke is don. New7 York Yankees' second baseman. a good hitter and he drives across runs. Last year he failed to hit .300 for Golf ranked second with Ralph Guldahl, U. the Nats, but before that, with Chicago, he batted .345, .330, .295 and .302 S. open w7inner for the second year in. a row; Sam and over that four-year stretch he drove across a total of 440 runs.