Show YANKEES LANO PITCHER MAYS Pay Fancy Price for Former Kenilworth Utah Hurler July At EW YORK YORI July 31 At At a confer N NEW ence here attended by Harry Frazee president of the Boston Americans and Jacob Ruppert and T. T L. L Huston Ruston owners of the New York Americans the local club procured Pitcher Carl Mays Maya from Boston In exchange exchange exchange ex ex- ex- ex change for Pitchers Robert McGraw and Allan Russell a IJ third player to be selected se selected se se- later and a cash sum said to be beabout beabout beabout about The New York club was obliged to bid against the Chicago Americans which submitted a a. straight cash proposition O ca' ca William Gleason n manager of the Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago American baseball club announced today that he oe had signed the veteran I pitcher Frank Ragan who was released by the New York Nationals I BOSTON July 31 Mays l Mays left the club I July 13 when it was In Chicago on Its recent Western Vestern tour He Is exp expected to report to New York tomorrow He joined the tho Dos Boston ton club in 1914 and until this season was one of the clubs club's most reliable pitchers BOSTON July 31 The The The trade by which I Carl Ma Hays Mas s underhand pitcher of the Boston Americans was transferred to the New York Americans took rank today among the biggest transactions financially finan chilly y In the history of baseball An oW- oW I 1 cial of the Red fled Sox stated that the Boston Boston Bos Bos- I ton dub chub received In rash for forI forin I 1 Mays May's In addition to Pitchers Allan Russell Russell Rus his sell and Robert McGraw and a third player to be chosen later An estimate placed the trading value of the three I players in excess of It was understood that Derrell Pratt I second baseman o of the New York team was the most likel likely choice of the Boston BostonI I club chub among the six players available I I With this choice exercised the Red I II I i Sox mana management ement Is expected to consummate I 1 mate a deal now pending which has as its 1 object the acquisition by Dos Boston ton of Scott Scotti i Perry pitcher of the Philadelphia AthIe Ath- Ath 1 Ie tiC Boston probably will offer Pratt I another player with for Perry It Iti is said i |