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Even if they fail to win the pennant this year, the Senators will be pleased if they can beat the Boston Red Sox. The Senators' Manager Bucky Harris was fired by the Red Sox's Owner Thomas Yawkey, whose fabulously extravagant expenditures to make his team a pennant winner have thus far totaled $2,000,000, including the $225,000 he paid the Senators for Joe Cronin with whom he replaced Harris (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). On July 4 the Senators were pleased to find themselves a game ahead of the Red Sox who, second until they lost...
...block was the Philadelphia Athletics' genial, broad-beamed James Emory (''Jimmy") Foxx, twice voted "most valuable player" in the American League, propeller of 58 home runs in 1932, possessor of a lifetime batting average of .338. Casting covetous eyes at him was Thomas Austin Yawkey, equally genial and broad-beamed owner of the onetime lowly Boston Red Sox. Tycoon Yawkey paid $1,000,000 for the club three years ago, spent $2,000,000 more to raise the tailenders to fourth place...
Last week, Owner Yawkey closeted himself with Manager Joe Cronin. then handed Philadelphia's Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack") $200,000 plus two players for Slugger Foxx and Hurler Johnny Marcum. Next month Yawkey will probably pay Mack another $200,000 for Infielder McNair and Outfielder Cramer. With Foxx at first base, with his accurate home-run eye fixed on Fenway Park's short left-field fence, dopesters figure Boston the most likely outfit to topple the World Champion Detroit...
Tigers. Scared by the size of Yawkey's purse, the Tigers' manager, Mickey Cochrane, wangled Outfielder Al Simmons away from the Chicago White Sox for $75,000. Almost certain to earn the cellar position are 73-year-old Manager Mack's hapless Athletics. Of the regular team which won him the World Series in 1929, he has now sold the last member, must, as in 1923, completely rebuild...
Found shot dead in a Detroit park was Howard Carter Dickinson, 52, nephew of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's wife. Attorney Dickinson had gone from New York to Detroit to investigate a young woman's claim against the $40,000,000 Yawkey (lumber) estate. After four days' search, Detroit police produced William Schweitzer, underworldling, and three dance-hall girls who told of having been with Lawyer Dickinson on a two-day drinking party culminating in a hold-up and the shooting...