The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
TANKS FOR SALE BUT HUNDRED. MURPHY DEAL NC.
Price Is S7,OOO, ,OOO; 3
 Women Control Stock of /, Richest Baseball Club
By LESLIE AVERY

United Press Stan COrrespondent)
 New York, March 15.-CUP)-The New York Yankees are for sale. but tt will take around $7,OOOOO to buy them, and nobody with that kind of cash has come along.
 ( The greatest baseball club in his- tory is on the market, fact rumor- cd ever since the death of Col. Jacob Ruppert Jan. 13 last year, but brought into the open by another of the many false reports that the Yankees had been actually sold.
 George Ruppert, brother of the late colonel, and Edward Barrow, president of the Yankees, were quick to deny that the club had been sold, or would be sold to syndicate headed by Gov. Francis P. Murphy of New Hampshire.
 Protected
 2 The club was the only thing among his possessions the late colonel prized enough to attempt to protect in his will, but the sweep ing powers he gave his executors enabled them to sell it in prefer ence to other property for the cash needed to pay state and federal irl- heritance taxes.
 The Yankees are for sale" Bar TOW said in Sebring, Fla, "but as president of the club I would be in a position to know whether the Yankees had been sold or not. No deal has been completed. There is nothing definite or semi-definite to announce now. We have had sev- eral tentative offers in the last six months"
 ' Barrow is not one of the executors of the estate. It is understood that he owns but one of the 5000 shares of the capital stock in the Yankees. He is, however, trustee of the estate.
 George Ruppert, reached at his Florida winter estate, said that "it might be several months or longer before the Yankees are sold. Such a deal requires considerable time. There is no immediate prospect of a sale"
 Big Money
 With the Yankees will go their far flung farm system, the most productive in baseball today. It's nine minor league clubs include two Glass A outfits, the Newark Bears of the International league and the Kansas City Blues of the American Association. The property also in- eludes the Yankee Stadium, which 1s assessed at $2,550O0O for tax pur- poses. The New York American league franchise IS estimated worth S1,O0O,0OO and the present Yankee player roster, $1,500,OOO.
 < Col. Ruppert and Col. T1llinghast Huston purchased the club for $780, 600 in 1915 and baseball men laugh- ed at them. Eight years later Rup- pert bought out Huston for $1,50O,- 900. In the 24 years he headed the club Ruppert paid more than $6,- O00,0O0 for players alone. He was the man who paid Babe Ruth $80,- 900 a year for blasting home runs and built the stadium to make 1t easier for the Babe.
 Baseball paid me big dividends" he said shortly before his death, mot in money but in satisfaction, in fun, in victories and in cham pionShips."
 ' Ruppert left virtually all his prop erty to three women-two nieces and @ long, time friend. His brother George and his brother -in-law, H. Garrison Silleck, Jr., were left nothing. Mrs. J. Basil Mcguire and Mrs. Joseph Holleran, both daugh-. .ters of Silleck, and Helen Vim thrope Weyant, former actress, were his chief beneflciaries.