Foxx to Sox

Few scenes so nearly resemble the ancient slave mart as the annual winter meetings of the American and National baseball leagues. For three days owners and managers haggle, trade and sell players, vociferously deny the deals to newshawks, and then disperse, hopeful that their club will finish on top.

Last week's conclave in Chicago was no exception. Prize article on the 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.

Other transactions:

P: Manager Bill Terry of the New York Giants took Second-Baseman Burgess Whitehead from the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Pitcher Leroy Parmelee and cash. The Cardinals' Dizzy Dean promptly dittied: "Paul and Me and Parmelee," bragged that the three of them would win 60 games.

P: Unsuccessful in his first-day barterings, Manager Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees finally traded Pitcher Johnny Allen for Cleveland's Pitcher Monte Pearson and another Indian.

P: James Aloysius Robert Quinn, owner of the Red Sox for ten disastrous seasons (1923-1933), was awarded the franchise of the defunct Boston Braves. With the aid of Charles Francis Adams, majority stockholder of the old organization, and others, he will pay off the Braves' creditors, raise enough new money to rejuvenate his team.

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