Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-08
M'CRAW MAKES
BID OF $4,000
FOR |NF|ELDER
With Roush Deal Off, Manager
Of Giants Is Determined to
Land Roger Hornsby Of
st. Louis Club.
BY BUGS" BAER.

San Antonio, March Manager
John McGraw of the Giants, has
offered 10000 certificates for Roger
Hornsby of the second division.
Branch Ricketty turned the offer
down flatter than set of Class SA
arches. Teacher then offered TO
throw in his last summers straw
hat and bar privileges of all the New
York hotels, but Ricketty is as stub
, born as mule with four hind feet.
Mac is real sour about the affair,
| and is going around with his spirits
dropping like a German mark. He
is determined to get Hornsby if he
has to buy up the state of Missouri
and surround him on all four sides
like currant in a cake. Teacher
figures that Ricketty is holding out
until Saturday, when the United
Cigar Stores give double certificates.
The Roush deal is off like
moose's first set of horns. Pat
Moran only wanted everything, and
teacher hasn't got that yet. There
is good chance of teacher grabbing
Milt Stock, if you call that a good
chance.
In the meantime, teacher is try
ing to mold Rodin statue out Of
the bunch OF putty in camp. Some
Of the rocks look plenty dangerous.
But so does Plattsburgh training
trench.
Bridge work will win the pennant.
Lefty" Tyler made a great come
back, but left his teeth behind. The
stylish improvement in the Cub
pltcher/is due to the fact that Tyler
had all his fangs pulled out like
numbers out of a lottery wheel. Its
tough job jerking left mitters
food gears, as they are firmly I'M
bedded in concrete.
Good for 10 Years More.
But now that his teeth are pasted
up in the family album, Lefty" is
good for 10 more years in the big
league error column. After that the
dentists will yank out Tyler's whole
skeleton and Lefty" will be able
to play forever
Figuring on how cancelling your
teeth will improve your batting
average, the gratitude of the civi-
llzed works is due to Doc Davis.
The old Doc was the Kaiser's plain
and fancy dentist for 20 years. It's
fortunate for US that Doc only
loaded the kaiser's teeth instead Of
pulling 'em. If the kaiser's mush
had been as empty as the crown
princes skull piece, all the world
would now be a parking place for
limburger Eofbrau.
McGraw will send ali his scouts
out this season looking for dentists
instead of pitchers and infelders.
He already has Doc Birs, who has
been travelling with the works for
10 years. The hatbag is stuffed with
forceps and pliers instead of bats.
McGraw played fox and geese to.
day with the other boys in the neigll.
borhood. He crashed nice, friendly
grounders at the infield, and rosed
in all kinds of directions for the
camera man. except sideways. A
winter in Havana has left teacher
without any sideways. He is as
plump as the mumps.
Four Veterans Missing.
All the oldtimers are now here ex-
cept Fletcher, Douglas, Toney and
Gonzales. Nobody knows what is de-
tanning Toney this time. Maybe he
figures that he doesn't need any
practice to miss the plate.
The weather here is the kind you
wish for on weejee board. Led by
George Kelly, the Rocks are cutting
loose like cross-eyed Chinese gun
ner trying to shoot Mexican am
munition into Norwegian blunder.
buss. The regulars are wiser. They're
saving their wild throws for a cru
cial series.
The team is getting morning and
afternoon practise, and its marvellous
how rook can carry a heavy meal
around the base lines.