Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-09

cost the Yankees one one-hundred-a and twenty
five-thousandeth as much as their right fielder
Mr.. Ruth.
Lou went directly to the Yankees from Co
Mmba University. And he even threatened
the home-run hOnors Of the SIPS 900 Bambino.
JIMMY FOxX couldn't be purchased today
for $4,000 But the Athletics got this
young man largely ON Connie Mack's faith in
Frank Bakers judgment and good will
Back In 1925, Baker, who once smashed
homers for Mr.. Mack, advised his old boss that
he had better pick up young FOxx at once, for
In another year he would cost plenty Mack
followed Bakers suggestion and got Foxx for q
nominal sum. Foxx has Is years of big league
base ball ahead Of him, and Mack is lucky that
he had friend like Baker prying round in the
bargain basement.
Guy Bush, the only Cub pitcher who was able
to beat the Athletics in the last world series,
was a $1,000 job from the bargain counter
Bush was born on a farm at Aberdeen, Miss,
and used to help around the place until he dis
covered he could throw a base ball From then
on he wasn't much good" He decided to 20
to Tupelo Military Institute because they had
a nice ball team.
Guy swept out the barracks and waited on
table for three years. In the Spring of 1923
George w. Chapman, master of the school
called him In and gave him $3.50, with inStruc-
lions to pay it back out of his base ball earn
Cotton States League.
One day Jack Doyle, Cub scout was in the
stands. Guy pitched both games of a double
header, winning each, to O. The Cubs bought
him for 81 200.
GROVER ALEXANDER, hero of the Cardi-
nalS-YankeeS keep your shirts on" world
series, was bargain picked up In the draft
When he was playing his first year of pro ball
at Galesburg in 1909 he was beaned one day
while running to second base After that Aleck
said that for long time he could see two
batters," and usually pitched to the wrong one
he was to have gone to the St. Louis Browns
that year, but when the Browns discovered he
was seeing double, they Sidetracked him to In
dianapolis. They thought so highly of Alexan-
der there that he wasn't even ordered to re-
port and Manager Carr sent him to Syracuse
he was drafted at the close of that year by
the PhillieS Since then he has worn no other
than big league uniform, despite an occasional
game In the might league" and after years
with Chicago and ST. Louis Aleck goes back
this year to the team he started with-the
Pills.. Still pitching big league ball at 43!
THERE are two Rices in the big leagues, and
they bear no relation to each other ex-
cept that both were picked up downstairs ON
the bargain counters. The first is Sam the
washington Outflelder. Sam wasted two years
pitching for Petersburg in the Virginia League
before Washington took him on for $500 in
1915. Sans bat has rung merrily ever since
then with Washington.
The other Rice is Harry the Detroit out
helder, an Illinois boy. The st. Louis Browns
originally bought Harry from Paris (the Illinois
One) in 1922 for just 81 600 In 1928 he was
traded to Detroit and still has an arm that
puts fear into American League base runners.
Portsmouth, Ohio, got $500 and Cleveland
got Sad Sam Jones and one of the smartest
pitchers in the big leagues In 1914 Sam won
IL and lost 2 for Washington I'm 1928.