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Show JIM O'CONNELL SAYS NOTORIETY OF SALE WON'T INJURE PLAYING, .X3?ilBBM mBmEsBh1 , 1 wjxBflHHBBft W VMS. JtflHHHHHH 'At the Right, Jimmy O'Connell, the $75,000 Beauty, and With Him Willie Kamm, Who Flourea to Drlno Even More Cah Into the San FranelttO Club Owher Safe When He la Sold Thla Year. Notoriety of tlie purclmso of Jimmy O'Connoll for STfl.OOQ ly Dm New York Glf rits from the Sun Francisco Seals linS fl different psycliolofilcnl effect on vnrlous players. Every one believes that the nttentjpil uttrncted to O'Connell O'Con-nell through the pale will monn coiif slderable "rnkzIiiB'1 from the bleach-ers. bleach-ers. O'Connell himself snys be expects It, "but It won't bother me." On tho otlier hand. Willie ICninm, nnotber brilliant star of tho San FrunclHco team, who Is considered next In lino to follow O'Connell to the majors nt n bis purchase price, saya ho would not llkti to be In O'Connell's shocx and that such notoriety would bother old man Kn turn's son. 'Tcs, I guess the fans will kid mo abbut belnir a $75,000 bcrtiity," said O'Connell. "but that won't bother mo. I know I'm no beauty and I baven't $78,000; so what'a the useT Nntiiral-ly Nntiiral-ly I would rather have them pulling for mt It sort of helps n fellow yet I know razzing Is n part of the baseball base-ball profession, and when n fellow ceu a certain amount of It, then lie T ' r f does not poy any nore attention to It. I got my shnro nftor tho Chicago Cubs offered ?10,000 for me before I had played a game In tho Coast league, and for a while It bothered me." Kamm la Different. ; On the othcrjrtmnd, Kamm shows) an altogether different feeling. He snys: "I think O'Connell Is a marked player and will bo for some time to come. Personally I would not like to bo In his plncc. The fans will un-doubtedly un-doubtedly expect too much from hltn and If bo makes n boot or falls to como through In a pinch, they surely will glvo him n good time. It Is nil very well to say that their abuse docs not bother you, but It docs all the same,, I hopo when I am sold that It wl)l bo." for an grdlnary sum, lacking in the national notoriety that O'Connell received. re-ceived. It mny be all right for the 'gate' but that doea not help a player's pcreonal feelings In the. nmtter.iM know when n man climbs thfe ladder nd Into fame be Is more or lew a public pub-lic character, but I don't -wunt' ;to climb any $75,000 ladder," |