Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-12
LANNIN willing
TO Spend Coin
ON THE RED SOX
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Sox, is spending a fortune to bolster
up his club. His goal is the champion
ship Of the American league and
a worlds pennant.
Will the man whose indomitable en-.
ergy and wonderful resources enabled
him to climb from a bellhop to mil
honaire hotel owner and a major
league magnate achieve his great am
bition?
This Is question baseball fans are
asking and the answer Is yet to come.
II must result from battles on the
diamonds of the American league yet
To be waged
Lannin Attracts Attention,
Lannin has made the whole base
ball world sit up and pay attention, In
the short space of few months he
has become one of the powers of or
ganized baseball. The memory Of the
boosters club episode which made the
Boston fans apathetic has faded before
the aggressive and patriotic measures
of the new Red Sox magnate.
Ban Johnson never made better
move for the good OF the game than
HIS coup of bringing Lannin into base
hall. He was the man Of the hour in
Boston. The Hub fans could not soon
forget the insult to the Boosters or
ganization headed by former mayor.
but Joe Lannin has made them forget
&c.
BY a lavish expenditure of money
and evidence that he was heart and
soul in the game to &oost 1t and make
Il a creditable race, Lannin has won
the heart OF the Boston fans.
comiskey Of the East.
/, In the big league In less than year
tanning has become In the east what
Comiskey long has been In the west.
q powerful builder of sentiment in
baseball, which some forces in the
pastime hold all too lightly.
Lannin treated his players fairly.
He was one magnate who was willing
to go the Federal league one better
He gave the Boston public to under
stand that the Federal Iesguers would
not sign one good player from his
.taam and he has kent that promise
Every player on the Boston club ex.
cept Joe Wood has signed to play for
the Red Sox next sesson, and the
Red Sox owner admitted that he was
not worrying over the future OF the
famous smoke ball dispenser of his
pitching squad.
All Wanted Nean Gregg.
The master stroke of Lannin since
becoming head Of the Red Sox was
the deal that brought Vean Gregg, the.
areat southpaw, to Boston.
why would Charles Somers part
with a sOuthpaw4 every .magnate in the
league coveted?" and "Why did the
Nap magnate trade him for two par
ticularly unknown players and back
stop CASTOR to a club In the pennant
fight ?"
These are the questions some Of the
wisest men in baseball have been ask
ing and Somers and Gregg know the
answers Gregg wanted to be traded
and Somers concluded that the former
Portland wizard would never again
pitch winning ball for Cleveland.
Gregg Roasted BY scribes.
Gregg, following bad start this sea-
son, was banned and roasted brown
BIZ the Cleveland scribes. He was &C
cused OF sulking and stalling. Then
came talk Of trouble on the Maps and
following more banning because the
Maps remained In the cellar Somers
announce that he would overhaul the
whole club. He said he would retain
Birmingham and rid the team OF fac
lions making trouble. Larry LaJoie,
q fixture, was benched, some players
were sent back to the minors and then, |
as q climax, came the big David Har-
nm act with Somers and Lannin play |
ing the role of principles.
Players Traded BY Lannln.
For Gregg, one of the greatest pitch !
ers In the game, Lannin gave players
who cost him little money. Those |
figuring in the deal for Gregg came to |
the Red Sox as follows:
Rankin johnson, at the draft price |
Of few hundred dollars from the Syr-
acuse club of the New York state lea
que.
Fred Coumbe, at the paltry draft |
price from the Utica club of the New
York state league.
{ Egan, q catching CASTOR Of Connie
Mack. secured as boot in the deal
With Baltimore for Shore and Ruth.
The addition Of Gregg, Shore and
Ruth to his stan gives President Lam
ming the greatest pitching trio in the
world, he thinks. He figures that 1t /
now shades the hurting corps Of the
Chicago White Sox.
It Is possible that tanning gave a
cash consideration to swing the deal
for Gregg. He paid SIS, 900 for Shore,
Ruth and Egan, and purchased Hoblit-
zelI, oatbidding HIS competitors.
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