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Show CQMiSKEY JS LUCKY; mm ww Old Roman Corrals Great Herd of Slabsters With Small Outlay. Sheer luck and baseball intuition have made Charles A. Comiuskey the most fortunate magnate in thci world in picking up tffcat catchers and pith-er3. pith-er3. Comi.skoy corralcd z of tb' 'rt-at.f-st plabrnou iu captivity, orth ,in cold cash more than 1300,000, if they 'could be purchased at all, and Cornruy bag(rfid them for a mere 5003. Srhalk coat Ibo most of all of those celebrities whose uamen will adorn th'-hall th'-hall of fame in the treat pastime. Comiflkev paid $5000 in cash and play-' ers for the rcleao of thin youncj r.;itch phnnoinf.iion froru the Milwaukee eluh. Shak conldn :i )f. purr-hawed nov, for r.,omi.-,key in in the l;;iH(:ball world to remain. lln valiicn tho cs-t.rem cs-t.rem and 'ol will of the fans above all tiling dMi and known he couldn't l-art with fvdialk aiul retain that re-Hi-eet that. f-etUffl it. "Kehall: is the reatst youiur , catcher I evr y.'.iw,'' v.a'i the hpon-Uirj-oUM exclamation of John .. M; . Urnv aftor ff'-iii the little ''at'dier in . ;,.-tin Irr-t fall. 't '11 Kd V'.';jMi? Not on your lifn' : (;"r y refi-ntj v, ''Nor v,'oiiM I have r'-i'-n ;f'd him if he lia'iu't. I'lum1 ,r.ry. --r;ot. ? rrwf a 't f own thi ball u. i;d' v.ilh rrn- l,o n'ay v.-hiic J ri'if a i n 1 'i t he a me. ' ' Thu h fhe wav C.onihikev fi-c-l", about )imj. a cm f ''ol I "ft ion of fit a 1 fi. The OM I ii 1 n an h a ') a v.a. r m pi in hiy u f rections for all the boys, mid now that, they hao nined lorj contracts despite Federal league olfer the ehauect: are they couldn't be bought at any price-Lucky price-Lucky well, that word hardlv describes de-scribes it', t-i&d fortune has followed him in all his moves in his eventful baseball career. Walsh, Scott, Rcnz, "Russell, CicoMe. Knlm and l-'abei snven of the bright baLierv .tars ramc to (,'omikey at a enndmed flyiro probably little in exeer-s of 15,uu',t. Wabb vas o'otained from the Newark New-ark club for ? men; triib Scott was tipped off to Consiskey by our, of the Cauriilons, a lifelong friend, and siued by the fcox owner at a small fifmro. 'Benz vras purchased from the Bates-ville Bates-ville (dub for almost nothing and farmer! out to Des Moines, wboro he ripened into a rtar. Cicotte, a cast-olT of the Bostop Rod Sox, v,:if jjnrchnserl from the fliili cr-'fa cr-'fa nidation for a few thousand dollars. 'Vj'iiif.kcT wnuldn 't. fake -iH 0,000 for Eddie now, and Ihnt buy is looked upon as one of the luckiest Ptrokos uf fortune recorded in many a year in the big leagues. T?nfiell came to the Rox at the on 1 try draft pricn fnr players drawn from the Texas league. Faber came to the "White Srii for a f"w hundred dollars. This younK recruit is looked uTon as the most highly priced Rial) "find of the season" in the big leagues. Baseball player? a v tio von i!'.' pi ' ''her in the world has morn nfu0' than the orrnf-r enilege "tar of Dubiuine. |