The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-04
nv Jay LEWIS.

10y VA RE WkS.
sYou dunno whatcher talkin' about
/ says that IL the Danviiie club wants
tub SLASH BUCK Hooker's sai'ry nifty
bucks, the club has perfect right
tub"
sure. the club has a perfect right
tub and Buck has a perfect right
not 10 play
Then he'll be out of job"
nix. he can appeal tub the ma
tional commission and it'll make him
g free agent"
s'Free agent no;hin'. The national
som missionll say: Sorry, DO, but
yuh'n have tub play with the club
what owns yuh. unless yuh kin per
suade some one tub buy yer release.
We can't 40 puthin'."
"on. skeezicks. The national COM
mission won't do nuthtn uf the kind.
The Danviile club kept Hooker on
it's reserve list. They paid him sl5t
a Month last year, He kin get the
same money from other clubs, but
the DanNlle club won't let him go,
They send him d contract on the last
day, when tie reserve agreement Is
up, and gives him cut OF $50. And
they expect him to stand for it
He's got to stand for 1T.
He hasn't got to stand fer IL
''You think you know II all. Look
ahere, DIDN'T Camniu get a slash
In salary from Barney Dreyfuss
Didn't Carrigan and Wood get slash
IN safry from Johns Taylor Didn't
Sherwood Magee hold out? And Wal
ter johnson? And Artie Hoffman !?
And didn't they have to come to
terms ,"
They're different They're big
league players what can't go any
higher, They are getting all that they
can possibly GET
~Awi Watcher talkin' about! Why.
the Boston Americans would give
Walter johnson ten thousand year.
New York would pay Sherwood Ma
gee thousand more than he's get
ting in"
"Aw. hush! What's the national
agreement for 2"
Just what I'm sayin'. If the ma
tional k'misshun can't Kick in on
johnson and Magee and the rest of
the big league felluhs what tried to
hold out. now Is they going to cut
In an Buck Hooker and take his
par.?''
IL gu ought tub sell your head to
pool-bail maker. Solid ivory Is
nuthin' to it. Don't you know that
no minor league has a right to holc
}
when he can get more money else
where"
NO. oon't. and you don't neither. "
We'll. I'm tellin yuh."
~ gu go get your head examined
'Spose Richmoud offered Buck Hook.
er $50. could Richmond sign him
unless Dansiile released him?"
No, but"
Wei. them"
& H.
talkin into a barrel You can onI
hear your own voice. I'm sayin'-''
~ es. and that's all you're dom
Just sayip'." 'r'
Keep quiet a minute, will yuh
I'm say1n that tn naxhnui 'missnu
will declare Buck Hooker a free asen
IL he Appeals to ii and shows EN-
his salary has been CT fer no reason
except that the club Is tryin' to keel
within the salary limit"
And I'm saytn' 1t won't
IL say ii will"
IS pose you've had private info
from Garry Hermann or John Far
relL"
Private nuthin'. I'm talkiu' com
mon sense. L m sayin that IL tn
Dansilie club wants to slash Bucl
Rockers salary fifty bucks the clul
has perfect right to do So"
And m sayin' sure! the club ha
perfect right tuh and Buck has
perfect right not tub play"
Then he'll be out of a job
"oh, fer heavens sake get new
song You've sung them words owe
until We all know them by heart Dil
up new tune. Get a new ACT -,
There you go. just as soon ID
ser licked in an argument you g.
yellin' to change the subject"
Licked Argument? 30, when yo'
talk about lickin' tub me yer talkin
20 boy what's done forgot there
such a word CONT know how tut
r spell il and can't pernounce 1t to saw
his life."
Il said in an argument" ......, ..
%g7'''. Argument nuthin. Yuh dunno
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