The Bismarck tribune., 1935-02-12
BY HARRY GRAYsON
(NEA SpOrtS Service)

0dOe IuIu rs Lne mOSL prOmlucnt
name in the business, dirt cheap at
$4,000. Baseball should pay Dizzy
that much for keeping 1t in print
during the winter months alone.
Paul Dean is said to have had his
stipend increased from $4,000 to $4500
last summer when the former cotton
pickers staged one Of the few base
ball strikes on record.
World Series Promises
Now that Dizzy Dean has demon
strated that member Of the st.
Louis Nationals can obtain the more
important money, Samuel Breadon
and Branch Hickey undoubtedly will
find it more difficult to satisfy other
stars with world series promises.
however.
That has been their theme song in
one Of the most successful runs ever
enjoyed by q major league outfit.
"You might be able to get little
more elsewhere, but with what other
club would you be as sure Of collect
ing several thousand dollars more in
the world series?" they ask their re-
calcitrant athletes.
The system has worked very well,
too, for the Cardinals have fairly
roared along. without giving more
than two players heavy sugar-the
immortal Rogers Horllsby and frankie
Frisch. And both the Rajah and the
old Fordham Flash were made man
ager to reduce the overhead.
Stars Get Blow
Established stars coming to the
Red Birds usually are dealt a Jolt
like the one just experienced by Pat
Malone, the burly right -hander trad
ed to st. Louis by the affluent Chi
|cago Cubs, who returned his parch-
ment to Hickey with the question:
Didn't you make q mistake and
send me the bat boys contract?"
Rickey's reply Is typical:
Malone can hold out all season il
he likes. In fact. I wish he would. /
believe q seasons rest would enable
him to start the 1886 season in better
condition than he has been for
years"
Malone won IA contests and lost 7
for the Bruins in 1884, but 1t takes
10 Dean, q Hornsby, or Frisch to get
anywhere near what he is worth from
the frugal st. Louis club-and they
are expected to earn it with plenty
to spare. Malone will take what he
is offered. or else. The former cayal-
ryman isn't dealing with Philip K.
Wrigley now.
Who Besides Medwick?
But Dean has driven the opening
wedge, and ambitious young lumin-
aries like Joe Medwick have to be
satisfied. The Jersey outfielder de-
mands and Is entitled to $4,000.
Outside OF the talkative Deans
there is no way Of telling what the
remarkable Cardinals drew last sea-
son, but you may rest assured that
they were not overrecompensed. Ten
are reported still unsigned. and II
Ripper Collins, Bill Delaney, Pep
per Martin, Jack Rotlarock, and the
southpaw Bills, Hallahan and Walker
are among them, Breadon and Hickey
may anticipate further complaints.
Baseball men call Delaney, the
splendid young catcher who was for
tunate II he pulled down $4,000 In his
first year with the Cardinals, q $l0,-
900 ball player.
Close observers declare that II the
aggressive Martins 1884 insult was
divlleed. the baseball world would be
amazed at its miserliness.
Business Poor Despite Success
Dizzy Dean would get 425!O00 from
any one Of several major league Or
ganizations as easily as he throws
ball.
It simply is his misfortune and
that Of other Cardinal standouts to
have landed in st. Louis, where the
customers are satiated with National
League glory.
After eli, there are two sides to the
Cardinal story. Breadon and Hickey
are not rich. Their aggregation play
ed to less than 100000 paid admissions
at Sportsmans Park in 1884. or less
than half Of what several other big
time outfits performed before al
home. Up until the Saturday and
Sunday that brought what perhaps
was the most phenomenal drive IN
baseball history to close, attend
ance In st. Louis was skimpy. It took
the world series to yank the st
Louis club out OF the red.
But still bali players are entitled
to be paid commensurately with their
talent.
And, In closing. It might be said
that It Is just as well for the Nation
|al League that Hickey, the smartest
man in baseball. isn't operating In
New York or Chicago.