The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-30
IN
RECORD DEAL
FOR ONE MAN
Kamm of San Francisco Commands
100000 for Right OF His
Services.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

! Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.)
New York, May 30.-one hundred
thousand dollars for a California
ball player. 1t had to come. Kamm
has been transferred to the Chicago
American league club from San
Francisco, exchange to take eff
/ feet when the season of 1928 be-
gins, for the trifling sum of one
/ hundred thousand admissions to re-
served seats or 100000 admissions
to the bleachers. Either way it
represents a chunk of baseball and
( it lends additional reason for the
declination of the Pacific Coast
! league to enter within the pale of
draft law of baseball, as prices
would not rule so high if the draft
were a fixture.
! With SIS 900 which was received
for O'Connell and the 100000
which has been paid for Kamm,
who is a third baseman, the San
Francisco baseball club has receiv-
ed more money for two minor
league players than any club ever
received since baseball began to be
| a mart for expensive human brio
a brac.
Was Long Sought.
. Kamm has~been sought for star
of the armament for some time.
Various major league clubs have
/ thrown their lines into the Cali
lfornia pool but they couldn't get
as much as a nibble. The st. Louis
Nationals indirectly limited that
! they would like Kamm and when
they found how well Kamm was
valued rose up and yelled that they
had no desire to buy Market street
in San Francisco. They sought
{ only one balIplayer. The Cubs,
carrying palm branches and their
! best Sunday hortmonnaie, limited at
$4,000 and the owners of the San
F'ranciscans said that wouldn't
buy carfare on the cable railroad
out to the cliff house. So it went.
One of the eastern scouts who
| travelled out to the coast declared
the owners of the San Francisco
: club were playing their cards to
get 100000. They have had so
many feelers for this boy Kamm, ;"
said he, that they figure they can
get more for him than they got for
IO'Connell and they know they can
get a good price for him any time
even if they do hold on. He is the
best third-baseman in California
and perhaps the best in the minor
leagues who has not been tried out.
He is not worth 100000. There is
not a ball player worth 100000 in
nv opinion, but that won't prevent
someone from paying that sum if
| he thinks he can get advertising
enough out of it. Evidently Comis-
key thinks Kamm is worth 100000
to him to try to build up the Sox-
Ruth Is Meek.
| Ruth got back home from Wash
lington meek and modest He didn't
make a basehit but he helped his
team to win by hitting the ball at
the right time, and the Yankees
needed it because all the teams in
the American league that have been
thought to have a chance happened
TO have winning day.
/ The Yanks went away from home
and were beaten. The moment they
1 get off the Polo Grounds they have
their troubles.
| A most extraordinary thing hap
pened in the National league. Four
games were played and each team
won with score of five runs. One
of the contests, that between St.
Louis and Chicago, was for ten in
nings. The odds against such a
thing as four scores of five runs
each for winners are almost as big
as those that Philadelphia will not
win the National league champion
ship in 1922.
| The guessers are hard at work
on the possibility that Hornsby
may have of doing better as home
run hitter this year than Ruth did