The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05
New York Giants
 Stand for Much
 Coin m Values
 tBy Pacific & Atlanticl

New York, November 1.-The New York National league club today is possessed of more costly red blood and tanned skin than any other athletic combination in the world. Based partly On what they cost and what they might command. the value of the players total up we'll over s44o,0oo. and the Giants are not through preparing for the future sea son. Before next spring, additional purchases are expected to make the Giants a half million dollar team"
 The list of the animated assets of the New York club fCots about as follows: Catchers: Snyder. s15.00O; smith. $S,000. Pitchers. tvalue based partly on cost and partly on what they might commando: Nehf, sS0.0UU. Bentley. S65000: Barnes, S1,500; Ryan, S5.000; McQuillan, $5,000 Jon nard $5,000, Scott, cost nothing, worth $1O.00O. Pitchers to be tried and for whom cash agreements have been made. $20,0e0. First base: Kelly, Sl2,500. Second baseman: Frisch, tcGst price $5,000. present worth $25,0O0 every conservatiye). short stop, Bancroft. cost $10,000, worth $20.000. Third bases Groh, s60, 1000. irielders: Meusel, s10,O00, Cunning ham, s7000 (perhaps worth more); Shinners, s25,000. Young cost s5,00O, worth $25,000 as other players go. Utility men $20,000 on both cost and present valuation. There is also to Do considered that budding young Californian, O'Connell, who cost $i5,- 00O few sr items might be entered because astons promising young catcher, has not been included and the Giants have dipped into the Minor League trifie---that is a trifle where everything is considered on a s50,Oo0 basis.
 Willing To Spend
 During the remainder of this year and until the National League sea son is finished next fall, the Giants Will undertake to absorb more of the life blood of their circuit until if may come to be known as the Ma tlohi league of New York. The Giants will spend more for players than they have spent, and expect to have more players than they have now. Officials of the club made that plain today. They expect to gather them in before they start next spring to train for another champ- lonship and it's attendant dividends.
 New York club officials said to- day they expected to find something that might help them between now and the first of the year. Just what. whom or where was left in mystery. The club has not ceased to look out Tor future worlds series, despite the fait 1t did not make any great sum of the series of 1922 That was the fault of the players and the sum. The glorious orb of day socked the Giants wallop to the extent of about s30,000 by failing to stay up. This Is about as expensive a sun stroke IS any in the history of the game
 Not Through Yet
 No baseball club today stands for as much in coin as the Giants. That Is why, when the Giants an- nounce that they have not finished spending money. the other clubs see themselves confronted by exactly the same situation which arose in 1888, when John s. Day, the owner of the Giants, was accused by the weaker clubs of the organization with hay Ing no interest in mind except the financial interest of his own ag- gregation. Days answer was: .We.l. you get the privilege of coming to New York to play don't your
 II the players Of the Giants were auctioned off, would they bring any such prices as have been quoted? Not a chance. Values would shrink like a woolen undershirt in the wash. Yet as they go to constitute team for the New York club and their pos- sible playing ability to the benefit to the team in 1923, they are a half million dollars nine. Some day the million mark may be reached, and every kid in the land may look for ward to the time when he will be the sl0o,ooo chattel of a million dollar nine.