Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-12-18
DISPLAY Of MONEY
At BUFFALO MEET
MAKES STARS G|DDY
Big and Little Leagues Hand
Out Enormous Sums for
Players for 1922 Teams.
By GEORGE CHADWICK
speotaf Correspondent OF Great Falls Tribune

Copyright. 1871. Inc treat rails lElouhs
New York, Dec. 17.-The most fren-
zied and sensational session of the
PLAYER market that baseball has ever
known has closed, but the owners OF
professional baseball clubs are still
making bids and offers ION the curb
There has never been such a display OF
gold and glittering wealth, as the poet
laureate of the big leagues presents it,
since the game was adjusted to fl
nancial foundation of some safety as
was made this week.
A Tumble of Sheckles.
The older conservatives who were
wont to SSH when anyone mentioned
money and baseball in the same breath
are almost faint The New York Ma
tionals put about 100000 into the
present and future when they bought
Groh, O'Connell, Boone and others. Gin
cinnati took 100000 from New York
and tossed $4,000 of it right over to
the California promoters. Detroit
tumbled $4,000 into the pot and the
New York Americans had bid of $50,
600 rejected so often that they began
to believe it was only worth two bits.
The sums that crossed the top OF
the table in playing this game were only
a bagatelle compared to what was of
fered in smaller amounts and rejected
or held up pending better offers. The
Chicago Cubs would have put out $50
600 for Groh but Cincinnati knew a deal
could be closed with New York for
more. Chicago came back with bids
for players of lesser consequence, but
the man who is leading the Cubs could
not get what he wanted and very sens
IDLY refused to take what some of the
others wanted to give him.
West Does Cash Business.
The Pacific Coast league did a-big-
ger cash business than any minor league
ever did in the history of the game.
The price of their players averaged
$4,000 and the coast magnates will
not have to chase any wolves from the
door this Christmas. The coast league
caught sum not far from 100000.
The International league did not have
much to offer in the way of players
but offers sufficient to hold around
100000 were made the international
owners. Baltimore could have gotten
half that sum most any time the club
was ready to put three players Of the
market or else some of -he major
league clubs have been kidding.
Between players returned, players
accepted. players released outright and
players for whom negotiations were un.
dertaken. the American association
counts up tentatively business of S1OO..
900. 1t can readily be figured that
half a million dollars were looseneG
hither and thither from the time the
first big offer was made at Buffalo.
May Hurt Game.
This display of money will react OF
the game in general" said Barne,
Dreyfuss today. Dreyfuss is q con.
sentative who has spent his years il
baseball trying to divorce the game
from the hawking about of players
services. Once he paid $4,000 for {
player who did not do very we'll, but
the Pittsburgh magnate denies that his
attitude is sour grapes. He says hi
has learned that the public does no.
think a bit more of his team because
one player had cost him $4,000 than il
does when the team is composed 0.
players picked up on the sand lots.