The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-07
Ray Chapman, They Claim, il
Man Who Has Brought
Largest Cash Price
CULLOP, WHOM MAGNATES
BID FOR, Is A SURPRISE
Cleveland Might Have Had Him
Cheap at One Time, But
Let Him Go
by RALPH .. YONKER.

High-priced baseball players don't
cost so much after all.
They cost little cash, few play
ers whose value Is on sliding SCALE
AID nicely working Imagination oI
some sport writer, aided and apette1
by semi-official guesses as % tne
worth in cold dollars and cents os
fundry players figuring in the deal.
Ray Chapman is hailed as the play.
er whose cash price Is the largest in
( inc history OF the game. That is all
sight as far as II goes, but-Presidert
somers, or the Cleveland club, slmp.y
confirms the report that President
Charles Somers OF the Toledo club
paid him $4,000 in cash for Cha2py.
II is a comparatively easy matter
for Peter to pay Paul and set a new
fgIre In the price.
But this Is not the only instance Iva
N;lich things are not what thev seem.
The wise ones say that Rel Corri
len. formerly a Tiger, was Dougnt fcr
- 900 cash and that the rest of the
'erorted $1,000 price was made mp of
,layers whose value furnisneu excel
est guessing opportunities
20 and behold. the 22,500 dollars
s made famous because OF the alleged
purchase with them OF Marty D'Tooiy
we're really $500 plus bunch ol ball
layers, the guessing OF whose vaisi4
would make the solution OF a San
Lloyd seem easy.
Fifteen thousand dollars, sad 10
have been the price OF Schaik tue
White Sox catcher, fade uncer tEc
tight Of the e-muckrakers 20 $500
s5me players. and some more imagi 4
atlons.
Marquard,s sl1 900 begins " look
puny when the analysts gets after 1t
aid pick II to pieces.
And further than that, these carp.
ns critics insist that the boosters o.
lie prices even do the men and tho
clubs owning them IN injury by max
M Il almost impossible for the play
us TO live up to their reputations.
So, how now about your expansive
players?
This pitcher Cullop, who has been
causing such furor among big league
maenates the past few weeks. Is an.
other one of the guys who make the
official guessers on raw baseDaii
material bite nails.
Cullop could have been obtained by
Cleveland for almost nothing year
aso, Instead he was let go to New
Orleans with only an option holding
him. Now Cleveland must meet the
offer OF any other club, according 10
reports. which means from $4,000 10
Sl2.500 in cash
Manager Frank, of the New Orleans
club. has seen to Il that he gets oners
for the big pitcher and that the pup-
= lie knows about these offers. tnr
Cincv Reds and the Wsite Sox are
most prominently mention<d amonS
those clubs bidding for Cuilops ser
vices.
Cullop broke into fame this year
principally because OF no-hit game
he pitched when the Pelicans, as tne
New Orleans players ore known, were
touring Cuba this fall. He pitcned
not only a no-hit game, but 12-inning
no-hit game.
Almeida, the Cuban Cincy tnira
haseman, was so impressed with Cui-
Ion that he insisted that Garry Herr
man should get hold Of him. Thus
the Red management was induced 10
make bids So did the Sox.
Connie Mack, too, heard about him
and Il Is said that he has had his
weather eye on the youngster for
some time,
Cullop has been in professional
haseball only three years and he Is
only 21 years old. He learned the
rame at a college near his home In
Virginia. He first played professional
hall with Knoxville. in the Appalach-
ian league. He was with Bristol In
the same league later on and then
went to New Orleans. Cullop is
hie how with lots OF speed. good curve,
ane slow ball, and In addition, spit
hall which he uses In emergency. Out
side of that he is said TO be lacking
STUFF
~ Frank Chance plays first base for
The Yankees next season there VIII be
one player who will be happy and Tor
a very pecuiiar reason. That player
;s Hal Chase and the reason is that
ne may be given the job at second
base.
Despite the fact that Chase is left.
handed he has played second and
played II well. When the Yankees
were all shot to tatters this summer
he was used at the keystone sack.
Second base Is his hobby. He likes
that place better than any other on
the diamond and will be tlckled TO
death IL he is allowed to play there.
Cobb Is another man who likes sec
ond base During game In the spring
training trip last year he and Della
hanty traded places.
DOME Bush is having an imitator in
Buck Weaver, the White Sox short
stop. Weaver. who is playing this
winter in the Pacific Coast, has train
ed himself to bat both right and left.
handed. Naturally a right-handed hit.
ter, he Is now batting from the other
eide OF the plate,