PAGE 30 D K THOI T KVEN IN <1 TIM K S O'HDSK CHKKKY 8800) Thursday, 3, 1942 SPORTS Tigers May Give Cramer for Weatherly By LEO MACDONELL v THEY FLY FOR BASKETS AT OSHKOSH Deal With Tribe Wisterias Tale Steals If. E*rr &r' rr Svc'esoiue ot H, A er Has Writers, Show at U. M. ‘lhisl* Be RecruTra 4 Dv.*'es at Qrea* Le*es .es’s : -i "he Aisles Listed in Rumors By 808 MURTHY Michigan's 1942 football team now why he »howMl roe thoa* , TRIED TO SELL PLAYER WHO'S IN ARM\ ¦T ¦ ¦ picture*. I’m glad he did.” today wears its gi*ld M’ rings on The big fellow talked with such Meet precious At Dull the outside and a lot of you CHICAGO. iVc. .3 Lt. Gordon 'Mickey) Cochrane, ft sincerity that could hav# memories on the insidp. heard a pin drop in the big ball- front Gtent Irak's now that his visitor at bafteha!! headquartc*¦* By room that was parked to capacity, LEO MACDONELL The annual Michigan Rust wa* * • t ver. expecti t he wig ed to ruitir . • Wiatert told how ¦ r¦ CHICAGO. Dec. 3—With the held last night at Hotel Stailcr one night rode him all around Ann Grev Lakes eleven and before that Hr acted as a scout for the dreariest meetings in major league and. as always, the outgoing Arbor. That was at the end of hit he was of ourr-e. manager of the stations championship base- history fast earning lo an inglori- ball ‘earn. ous ending, there loomed today course, the of a trade in which Bern; on \*• • -! iuty at the station. Cochrane. of possibility the Tigers would lend Roger was ur.ftble to arend the dinner tossed by "the Chicago chapter (Doc) Cramer to the Indians for Rise hr ’ Writers’ Association of Ameiica. The dinner, of the Rov Weatherly. fat idei • was quite a shindijk 800 writers an l gueats attend* If not made here, the de«l may- at Charley fJnmm’a burlesque completed at date. inc and ad but rolling in aisles : be a later of Adolph Hitler. This Grimm. former Cub rmnager and now -W- The proposal came to the fore after Lou Boudreau spurned an piin* f the Milwaukee club in the American Association, is a ofTer /or JefT Heath, whom Steve scream. O’Neill would like to have m his; outfield. Boudreau is interested in Warten Brown, of course, was the toastmaster and did his Cramer and O'Neill has a liking 1 usual excellent job. He read a wire of regret from Cochrane for little Weatherly. Both players are center fielders. adding that "Mickey probably was trying to figure out’’ why Weatherly may not he as pol- O’Neill succeeded Del Raker, who succeeded Cochrane as man- m?Q jmwmMWl ished an outfielder defensively as IHHy Cramer, hut probably would hit ager of the Detroit Tirers. ¦ better Ihan the Tiger veteran, who HHKm slumped rather hadly at the plate in the recent season. Weatherly Campbell Sold’ After Joining Army has a reputation of being temper- amental. hip the new Tiger man- ager thinks he could handle the on Clark Griffith . The venerable Rest hotel lobby yarn is lad. He knows him well. (>KOR(iKmMmMCIKTHAML AND PA I L WHITK AT I . >l. Bt M veteran to Campbell confesses he tried sell Bruce .. ~ , Washington NO TRADING rrtinvg raptain. captain-clrct of Wnlvrrine rlc'rr\ Campbell was in the army . to Cleveland two weeks after Av the death rattle of the annual seniors were ghen the mightiest disappointing junior year. Griffith, of course, didn’t know Campbell had joined up with meetings echoed through the halls o\ *iions. “I’m glad I stayed at Michi- of hotel headquarters. fresh gan and came through," he sa d. Birdie Tehbetts at Waco. Of those seniors, AI Wistrrt . around, hut nary "I’m glad because I know rumors floated All-America tackle, Ossie Bluege. new manager of the Senators, is on familiar a trade. It looked very much as Michigan's big 'Biggie' Is happy. That make* stole the show. me happy." ground in Chicago. He is a Chicagoan, having learned his trade if the sessions would close without a player deal. Wistert told how he eame to l.t Com. Harry (1 Klpkc, also be greatest fielding l' M on the sandlots. He learned to one of the There was talk that the Yankees Michigan without ev or having a regent of the of was -UiAitur of ct-'-rimuuux - lie—aid. A—- t hird basemen of ail times from Tony F&dtIQUS. <1 Chicagoan. Jilin were interested in Rudv York *nd played game of football. He the- Renatois would like to get a gi*nd }c4* n( boWtOsJ dowr- «f*e<h<s never made the big league grade. Pinky Higgins from the Tiger*, told of some success in his sopho- to the minimum and the number ;of people making -pcerhes al«o "Perhous nix a |>erfeet rat on an Infield," Bluege recall*. hut Jack Zeller denied the Detroit more year Then the crushing club was even close to a deal. blow that hit him in his junior • to the minimum While Washington has been the big league hall rlwh hardest While York wasn't exactly being year Only Fritz Crislcr and Wally hit by enlistments, the studious Rluege thinks the American dumped onto the market, Zeller "I would have quit Michigan,” Weber of the coaching stnfT vp k*. league will "even up” in competition and his club will not have said the Ttgers would consider Ossie been- Wash- trading any veteran ‘providing it as tough as in the recent season. has with they get something worth- , pn*r rould pilot for more than 20 years. rhnfn hv T’m*« ington as player, coach and now 1 while in return.” RAM !! YM GIIN SCORES FOR OSIIKOSII STARS AGAINST GLOBE TROTTERS Steve O’Neill and Bluege aro the only new managers named “Nothing worth-while h»* been ~ . led uith 12 points ns Stars iron; Lrrni/ Edvards (20), lowan Jackson irafrh him suggested.” League for 1943. All others are expected to Zeller declared. \ in the American The Tigers particularly want an W # he back on the job—Jimmy Dykes at Chicago. Connie Mack at outstanding catcher and a hard Philadelphia, Lou Boudreau at Cleveland. Luke Sewell a* St. hitting outfielder They would like Oslikosli Still Tops very to Louis, Joe McCarthy at New York and Joe Cronin at Boston. much obtain Boh Johnson * Mosconi Wins of the Athletic> and it appeared y there might he a chance of landing National League, World Cage Champs Have Lost Johnson, along with Dick Siohert O’Neill Believes Pitcher Will Star But Connie Mack is said to have j|r w MBT Trotters; Win . Fifth Straight None of Smoothness; Beat Rens weakened s># s high elongated right handed O’Neill is on Rob Gillespie, WANT PLAYER* pitcher from Beaumont, who will report with the Tigers at Lake- Mosconi of Jackson, Rv CLAVTO.V HFPI.FR Willie I Clark Griffith offered to buy land in the spring. Mich., remained undefeated today One of the few- teams in pro Harlem quintet moved up to w ithin Higgins to play third for the at “Gillespie didn't have such a good record on paper.” in the billiard cham- basketball <Oll retains its four points of the rhampions Senators, hut the Tigers are inter- world ;>orkct which to stuff. He’s got a fast pionship tournament as result of the <Wis 33-29 with five minutes left ested in players, not money O’Neill admitted, “hut ha* plenty of key players, Oshkosh » play. Leroy (Cowboy) Edwards » victory over Ralph Grecnleaf. “It used to he you rould al- hall, a sinker and a fine curve. But he had arm trouble at Stars ate seemingly on tneir wav in a field a York veteran dropped goal on quick ways tr*de one hum for another,” New to a defense of their Beaumont. If that clear* up we may havr a young pitching ed successful break and two free throws and Jimmy Gallagher, general man- Mosconi scor his fourth National League title a< well as Shipp another from star (Gillespie I* about 22.") straight win yesterday, 125-96. Charlie added ager of the Cubs, declared, “but the world's championship they the point to tunning out the match 25 foul line at that sew now everybody I* scared to swap. Gillespie was rejected in the draft. with won in Chicago tournament last the game. points in inning up You always know how had your O'Neill, it not ihe trnih .Mos- Incidentally. were for the more spring - importantj t-ant s high i -The crowd of 1195. who disre- hum Is. hnt thr other might he tun wm M\ Green-• least, thev looked like ebam- assignment the kid now boasts, in the army, would have likad leaf’s 43. At garded the weather and gas even worse." pions la<t right as they downed rationing, were disappointed when to have had Harvey Riebe. young Beaumont catcher, who fin- Defending champion Irving Globetrotters, If Zeller. O'Neill and company the Harlem 37-29. Chuck Chuekovits and Rob,Gerber any here ished the season with the Tigers. Crane. Livonia, N. V.. defeated Er- game an plan trades they will in the feature of exhibi- didn't appear in the Toledo lineup. to a hurry, win Rudolph. Chardon, 0, 125- doijhlchoader have do so in as they “Riehe was definitely a high rlas*. big league prospect,” tion at Olympia.