The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-19
INVESTIGATION MAY
END SELLING OF BALL
STARS DURING SEASON
BY FRANK q. MEyKr


Eddie Roush has refused to play
with the Reds because they will not
pay his salary demands.
The Giants are reported to have Of
fered $4,000 for the rebel outfielder
which indicates that they gladly will
pay him what he wants.
All of which has stirred one Kene-
saw Mountain lands to do a little
investigating and some secret resolv-
ing.
# the learned iurist can grab the
goods" in the Roush case, and
trough those discoveries, kill for all
time the evil practice of one club
selling star athletes to another during
the regular playing season, he will
nave earned every jitney which the
cotfers of baseball drop into his palms
over the sweep of many years
wealthy ball clubs have monopolized
major league pennants simply because
| they have the money to step out dur
ing m1dseason and purchase Just the
player, or players that they need to
clnch the flag for them
| Under such a system none of the
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chance. For as soon as such outfits
garnered lead in the flag races. the
| wealthy clubs promptly would pur-
! chase all the men needed to bolster
nothing more or less than a gigantic
| Takes Sport Out.
All of this has done more than any
thing else to take the sport out of
! baseball and to prove that it was
up the team and make 1t win a flag
commercial enterprise.
/ The Giants have been the worst Of
tenders. Through almost every year
OF John McGraw's regime as pilot of
the club, these Giants have gone into
the baseball markets and by the use
OF money, practically purchased pen
nant by the acquisition Of star per-
formers from other clubs.
4 1t has been charged in the past-and
still is charged--that some managers
have used INSCRIPTIONS methods to Sc
cure players from rival teams. It is
said that frequently when some ball
players were not satisfied with the
offers from their own clubs, an ennis
sary from another would wander along
and deliver TO him a message along
these lines:
Stand pat on the money you want.
Your own club won't give it to you.
They VIII put you on the suspended
list probably. but don't let that worry
you. We will buy you after little
; while and then you can come with us
and we will pay you the same money
that you think you are worth"
Investigation Honest
Whether anything like this was done
IN the R0ush case isn't known. But i
, is known that the Reds cannot afford
to pay Roush the money which he in
! sists upon, but that the Giants are
Z quite eager to do it, and also are will
ing to pay a small fortune for owner
! ship of the great outfelder.
The investigation of Lands undoubt
eddy is an honest and a searchine
! enort TO get he real facts in the RousI
: case, as well as to uncover some O.
the trickery used in baseball deals il
/ the past.
1t is to be hoped that Landis vii
> conclude that one of the worst thing:
that can happen to baseball is a con
, unuauon of the practise which per
n mlts one club to sell a player or play
4 ers to another during the regular play
: ing season. If Lands wants to dC
basehall the greatest possible good, hi
could accomplish it in no better wa,
than to concoct the following rule anC
/ ia nit into the constitution and nv
laws of baseball:
\ All major league clubs hereafte
\ are forbidden from selling or tradin.
> players to each other Between the dat
OF the opening game each year and thu
e final game of the world series"
Il Copyright 1921 BY King Feature.
Syndicate, IDc.)
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