Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-23
TRYING TO BUILD
n. Y. YANKEES
Col. Rupert Tells OF His E1orts
Which Have Cost About
100000.

In The Baseball Magazine ior June,
Col. Rupert, part owner OF the ankees
tells how he has tried To buiid up
winning club after having spent sZoo,ooo
with but little success.
s.For several wears ] have had my
eve on Pratt of ST. LOUIS. | cannot say
that he is a better player than Gedeon'
but he has played better oall ana we
wanted him Well, how did l get nm
| paid fifteen thousand dollars IN cash ana
gave away n number of good players 10,
HIM. But what can you do heeo'i
tbis plsver. everyone knew | needed HIM
ono thing was certain, | couldn't come
back empty handed | had to do some
thing to build up the club after the loss
of several valuable men To army service
And got what went after. though h"u
to nay out of all reason for HIM.
This is a deal which actually went
through. Let me cite another deal which
| believe. should have gone through, but
.Iidn't For some time | have had my
eyes on Joe Bush and Amos Strunk ot the
{thlcties. Last wear ! asked Mack II y,
would he possible to interest hun IN y deal
for these players. lie said TO me, nave
s,ld nv last PLAYER All right | sa'n:
ii YOU change your mind let me kno"
4 will said he.
Time went ON and finally ! received
word that Mack would be willing to see
me and talk things over lie d'dn Whh'
tn bc observed discussing things with me
u, pb;I,dcluhio. because he was afraid
some new wsl,apcr man would sec bum ana
start the story of n sensational trade.
Neither for the matter ot that thd nc
want to come TO New York. 80 he sug-
vestrd that We meet and talk It over at
Trenton Nobody ever goes 10 Trenton
unless he has important business 70 negoti-
ale. But | met him At Trenton ana we
adjourned to a small hotel where We ne
,iollEt. were looked upon as = couple ~
runmrn discussing future hold up game
4 can't talk to Nou about Bush began
Mack. because / already have given .
certain club m option OF l}ush i'ut
can't 81. that this club will g through
with the option Il they fall down,
will let volI know However, TOR certain
reasons. | have dcrldo,i ~ Let 81 ~
~tr,lnk and Scharg and Il Nnu want these
mon am willing to talk busl1csS want
s25.opl for Schang
We'll Mack. | said. I'm not -
nartirular about Schang | don't really
need catcher 40 much. anyway Well.
said Mack. he can cert. iuiy Int Bnt
don't know ~ Schang would ho tho man
you need most on Nour cuh
Not At that prlcc. ! told him Bu'
| would make you an offer oi SlO.Wn Tor
Strunk
III couldn't consider il, ssid Mack
i couldn't even think nf it must grt
s15 ONO for thc9c three men will sell
them for that figure. hut # ] had Ia sell
two 81 them separately. would want NOR"
than $50. 900 tor them wouldn't agree
ia lct them 60 for 0,no0, hut there isn 7
any hurry Think Il over and decide what
YOU are willing 10 do.
L will do that. Mack, ] sald, only
be sure TO let mo know before YOU ~
through with this thing with any other
club. for | certainly want Strunk and
Bush anyway
so We adjourned Mack went bsck
to Philadelph,a. and took the same tram
for Washington But Mack sat IN one
end nj the car, entirely obhvlous OF my
presence at the other end
Well. YOU all know what happened
The Red Sox got Bush and Schang and
Strunk in a sensational deal
when | made the offer ot $4,000 for
Str,lnk | was willing r. 60 higher and
Mack has certainly danc enough tradDe
IN his dav 10 know that ! would 81
higher. 4 man seldom makes his highest
bud first
Capt Huston and myself have spent
over s200. .Op0 IN strengthening the lau-
kces since We purchased the club We pad
S37. 500 for Frank Baker We paid s25.0h
for Lee Mage and We have got rid Of :
voung fortune on other PLAYERS who
couldn't deliver the goods And We have
had some Of the most frlghtful luck ever
heard of. THIS may he q common ahb' q
the | ser, but 1t has the suhstantiation {"
fact, in our case, At least For at one um'
we had no fewer than eleven men on th'
hosDital list Bill Donovan was the fines
fellow in the world and hated 20 lo
hrm 90 But business wont wait II
had been handicapped 10y the worst .
LIek as ! we'll realized but after thre
v..rs We didn't seem to be advancing yer
last and ] fclt that It was To the hes
interests Of the club 20 make change