The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-22

key, Of Chicago, who Is a we'll known
slave trader, went to the market place,
and. after feeling the arms. legs and
teeth of Russell Blackburn. passed over
$4,000 to Hugh Duffy, his master, and
obtained. ownership OF this baseball
conscript.
And nobody at the time limited that
Commy was suffering from a sprained
conk when he made the gamble. Al
though wholly untried In the ways OF
the fast set, Blackburn has been burn
ing up the Eastern League He may
prove q bloomer or another Wallace.
but Commy didn't hesitate to unbuckle
$4,000 to get the Providence shortstop-
per. who. by, the way. is a Philadel-
Nine thousand dollars for a minor
league experiment! wonder what Con-
ME Mack thought when Comiskey made
lars is more money than 1t cost Mack
to get Eddie Collins, Frank Baker, Har-
ry Davis, Dan Murphy. Eddie Plank.
Jack Coombs. Chief Bender. Harry
these players and their associates have
put the Athletics In hrst place in the
American League race.
While other owners are giving the
ments, Mack lodges the Glass A. A.
circuits with their hold-up figures ana
looks to the Pumpkin Valley and Roam
Mare Leagues for his finds. II some
DOQY says IAAL VI DAAbAihSAo % OA
McSwatf, of Columbus. ought to make
Ty Cobb look like faded lily, Mack
says can the chin-stun.
But IL somebody says that there Is q
strong enough to bat ball over the
City Hall, then Mack boards the hext
train for Barrel Stave and soon puts
the Nevada wonder in American League
bondage, 1t possibly costing Connie the
price Of safety razor to crafty the
demands OF the Barrel stave manage
but. for the most part. Mack doesn't
DO any business with the minors AZ az,
brunt Of the Athletics fight for the
pennant didn't cost Mack one Lincoln
penny in release money.
Eddie Collins, the fnfantile star. who is
SO young that he Is afraid to go home
in the dark. Collins le&ds the Ameri-
can League in clubbing and ranks sec
Eddie didn't cost any Marquard for
Connie got hep to Eddie while the
youngster was leading Columbia Uni,
yeraty In MiltSn Homer ama co 9rd aSa
ence Collins Joined the Athletics, and
Connie, trembling lest he should be
bowled out for overspeeding the ex-
the following items Of expense defray-
ed in landing the collegian: an
Monday postage ..'.''''''''''S 20
"Wednesday. postage :: . :.:., Nav 'OS
York for Collins and myself. 500
Thursday. incidentals ............ 20
Connie explained that the inciden-
tails were due to a hoid-up on the part
Of Collins while waiting for the Phila-
delphia train in the Jersey City shed:
At the last minute. Eddie palkeo ana s,
refused to bulge an satins WAS
forthcoming. There was nothing Tor
Connie to do but to stand for this hold
up, 1t was risky business. but connie
since toining the team has justified that
5000 expense bill, including the jersey
then look at Eddie Plank. the left
didn't walt until Eddie worked his way
to a class A. A. league and then mort
gage Shibe Park to get him. RANK
comes from Gettysburg, and amid Keen
bidding from the Chew IraXe,srs' ,S Sa
Arrow Juniors, the eX-Northside FRO
fessionals and the Athletics Mack made
the most liberal offer and copped Plank
from Gettysburg to Philadelphia and a
copy of The Police Gazette to land the
Mack also had to dig deep to get
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pitching for a rubber collar team at
Harrisburg when Mack started negotia-
lions for his services. After three
hour conference Mack and the Indian
compromised on railroad tlcket anu
four bits advance.
But the most daring speculation OF
all was the acquisition of Captain Har-
ry Davis. Harry had big league expe-
rience with Pittsburg and New YORK,
but subsequently retired TO do extra
base penmanship for the Pennsyivania
Railroad. right here In Quakertown.
One day Mack found that he was shy
that Davis was wearing out his throw
ing arm pushing a pen for that heart
less corporation.
At a cost of 5 cents, Mack called
that he was real ball player and that
he must not dare contradict him.
Come over to Columbia Park tomor-
row and start putting the bail over the
right-held fence" sternly ordered Con-
ITO show you what confidence have
In YOU" he Concluded, TN wire you 5
cents, so that the trolley ride TO- the
"Au right" responded Davis. III you
are willing TO take u chance like that
ri do my, best" And Harry hung up
the receiver. muttering how the pase-
ball war had caused managers 10 thrO"
away their money.
And that's what Harry Davis cost the
Athletics cents for. the phone call
and cents for de luxe ride on the
beautiful and scenic Philadelphia Rapid
Transit.
To land Harry Krause the phenom-
email young lefthander, who leads the
American League pitchers. Mack had 20
put a hole in the Athletic bankroll big
enough to drive team OF horses
through. After hooking the old Co
lumbfa Park bleacbsrs, Mack scraped
together enough to get ticket from
San Francisco to Philadelphia, and In
this manner, obtained Krause, who was
pitching for the st. Mary's College nine
when his left arm began to attract at
tention.
tain the release of Jack Barry from
Holy Cross. When the faculty at Col
by College learned that Mack had his
eye on Jack Coombs. II ran up the
price three fold. but the Athletic chief
stepped in ak met the increased de-
mands like a man.
one day last year Mack had the au-
dacity to trade Outfielder Shaughnessy