The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-01-20
SCOTT PERRY MAY
JOIN YANKEES SOON

Pitcher Scott Perry may be q mem
her of the Yankees within a few days.
The ofIicials of the local American
league club soon may announce that
they have purchased the famous hurier
from Manager Connie Mack of the
Athletics for an amount believed to be
about $4,000. No other players are to
be involved in the deal, it Is believed.
The owners OF the Yankees. opened
negotiations with the leader OF the
Athletics for the pitcher before they
startled the baseball world by an
nouncing they had paid the owner. or
the Boston Red Sox $4,000 for Babe
Ruth, the champion long-distance slug
ger. ~ B. es-... s-
Perry recently accepted terms for
1920 with Connie Mack and the news
that he had signed a contract came
as surprise to the Quaker City fans,
as only few weeks ago he was credit
ed with saying that he preferred semi
pro ball in Franklin. Pa, than hurting
| for the Athletics. Before Connie Mack
sent Perry the contract 1t was probably
arranged between the Athletics and
Yankees that Perry, IL he signed. was
to be sold to the New York American
league club and that they would agree
to take over his contract in full.
Perry has had remarkable career
In the major leagues. He graduated
| into the big show from the Atlanta
club of the Southern league going tc
the Chicago club OF the National
league. With the Cubs, however. he
did not get an opportunity to show his
worth. as he was soon sent back to
! the Crackers. In 1917 he again bobbed
! up in the National league, this time
with the Boston club. Manager Stall
| ings. however, failed to give him a
| chance. For thirty days Perry, an
| ambitious youngster. sat on tho
! Braves bench waiting for chance to
| appear in big league championship
contest-a chance that never came. At
the end of that period Perry was dis
gusted and quit the club. He returned
! to the Atlanta team. but he was still
! determined to break into the major
leagues. After drifting back to the
Southern league for the second time.
| Cy Perkins, who was once member
of the Athletics, but who was sent to
the Atlanti club, knew Perry was cap
able of pitching big league ball and
tipped off Mack.
| The manager of the Athletics sent
for Perry and in the summer of 1918
|
American league. When Perry Joined
the Athletics, the Braves did not make
any claim for his services, but when
he started to win games consistently
they started a fight for him. Perry
soon was the leading character in
controversy that for time threaten
ed to result in a baseball war. While
in Cleveland Mack brought the case
into the courts and obtained injunc-
lions restraining the Boston National
league club and the national commits
sion, the body appealed to by the
Braves, from interfering with the
player. Protected by court orders.
Mack continued to use Perry in the
box often, and at the end of the season
the records showed he was one of the
leading pitchers in the league.
Pitching for n team that was in last
place nearly all the summer, Perry
succeeded in winning 81 games and
was charged with 10 defeats. Last
season Perry did not perform as bril-
liantly as he did in the previous CAM
paign. He seemed to be dissatisfied
with conditions in Philadelphia and
was anxious to get away from the
club
Finally, after he had pitched in p
games for the Athletics, he suddenly
left the team fiat and went to Franklin.
Pa. He joined the semi-pro team in
that town and remained there for the
rest of the summer. At the close of
, the season the pitcher decided to stay
away from Philadelnhia and opened q
tailor shop in Franklin. When he went
into business he told some friends that
he would not return to the Athletics.
tut next season If he was still on the
oster of the Philadelphia American
league club. he would again pitch for
the Franklin club.