New-York tribune., 1920-03-01
lie McCarty
And Art Nehf
Join Expedition
Announcement of Pending
Deal With Cincinnati
Theme for Discussion
By w. Q. Mcclellan

ST. LOUIS, Feb. %. -. The Giants
paused here to recurit eight more snow
dodgers and proceeded to San Antonio,
where the tomales are blooming and
the tall enchilladas forever spread
their grateful shade for the tourists
on the banks of the slvery Rio Brazos.
At least tho Chamber of Commerce at
San Antonio has wired to that effect.
Waiting for the main expedition in
what was once blooming beer garden,
but what is now merely the great ST.
Louis descrt, were Lew McCarty and
Art Neht, leading tenderly by their
hands Carton and Meyer. recruit
pitchers; L. j. Sichling. an infielder,
and Lee King, an outfelder. Trainer
Ed Mackal furnished dark background
for the little group that waited at the
station.
The expedition was closely pursued
by blizzard. and the announcement
of. the deal with Cincinnati by which
the Giant expect to obtain I'd Koush
and Kopf for Ross Young. The rumor
Chicago. Judge Francis X. McQuade
admitted that the owners of the Giants
were dickering with Patrick Moran and
that big trading was expected.
Too Expensive for Reds
Ed Roush has become too expensive
for the eds. He wants fifteen thou
sand bucks per annum, with the priv
lege of declining to attend spring train
ing. He has figured that the leading
batter of the National League should
get almost as much as the leading
swatter of the American League, and
there is an ounce or so of logic in this.
The Roush overturcs were made by
the Reds, but the counter proposal
asking that Kopf be thrown in came
from McGraw at Cuba. 1t is expected
that the owners of the Giants viii
have to throw considerable in to boot
20 get the two players. Ross Young is
mighty sweet outfelder. but in the
open market he is not worth the price
of two of the stars of the late world
series.
The expedition proceeded smoothly
after passing Buffalo, where 1t was
divided into two classes, poker players
and African golfers, the dining car
being switched in between.
George Burns, boarding the special
at Utica, took lot of JOY out of the
expedition by producing some blanks
and concentrating on his income tax
returns This reused the curiosity Of
Rube Benton, the North Carolina
Gosh, do we have to do that again
this year," asked the Rube. "If we
do got to get busy and get the
money! He reached his useful left
nand into his pocket and produced &
pair of dice Two hours later the Rube
came back beaming with roll of flea
bitten dollar bills. couple Of
porters followed him, looking unutter
able grief,
planned the Rube. "But gambling
winnings have to be included in the
returns" explained George Burns.
You get taxed for them, too
The Rube's face fell again. "Well,
I'll shoot some of it back, then" he
said "Figure it out for ne so that
will lust keep enough. 1t was
rotten year for cotton and some of my
pigs died from the cholery, SO l got to
be careful"
jor Branch Hickey, with twenty
eight members of his lost battalion,
the st. Louis Cards, pulled out Of town
Just the night before the Giants blew
in. Major Hickey would not even stop
long enough to reaffrm that Rogers
Hornsby couldn't be bought for the
contents of the Sub-Treasury.
George Ssler and Bill Jacobson, of
the Browns, were still lowering in the
vicinity, but are ready to hit the trail
for Taylor, Tex.
The athletes are looking forward
with tinge of gloom to the twenty
one days schedule ahead Of them.
They feel that Secretary Joe O'Brien
must have collaborated with Elinor
Glyn to write out a schedule involving
three weeks of the national pastime.
Rube Benton takes it philosophically,
though. RUDE says: II got to sweat or
can't pitch Three weeks Of baseball
Will make Il Teller sweat, and then |
ought to be right when the big time
starts"
The Rube is trife frazier than
usual at this time of the year, and Is
only packing few stone over two hun
dred pounds. He attributes his symet-
rical figure TO the work he put in eX-
tracing boil weevils from his cotton
this year. He gave US an interesting
agricultural note.
"The boil weevls are getting bigger
every year. mused the Rube, "and the
cotton is getting smaller. I've seen
those North Carolina weevils drag away
a bale at a time. It's just like feed
ing the weevils to raise cotton these
days | got to play baseball to replace