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Show FOHIUE SPENT FOR WHITE 0X PLAYERS Charles Comiskey Now Ranks as the Greatest Spender in Baseball. It takes the players to make a championship cham-pionship baseball club. And it takes money to pet players that can grace a pennant-winner. Charles Comiskey, owner of the White Sox, understands that perfectly, per-fectly, a fact which accounts for the huce amount of money the "old Roman" has parted with for players. Comiskey 'a recent purchase of Fddle Murphy from the Philadelphia Athletics for a sum Eald to be U,uu0 Just recalls the work Comiskey is doing to build up a championship team. Early this year he created a sensation when it was announced an-nounced that he had paid $50,000 for Eddie Ed-die Collins, the great second baseman of the Philadelphia Athletics. Of course, that was the high-water mark in the purchase of ball players, but Comiskey was willing to bat it. H was r.adv to hand Connie Mack cS'VtOO for Flunk Baker, but the Philadelphia leader, with a little grouch on. refused the sum. and paid, too, that he would , refuse even a million dollars. Mack had ' a little vengeance to spill, but tnat is neither here nor there, it's Comiskey that this little tale is about. Before Comtskuy paid that JMl.OO for Collins he held second place in the list of biff buyers for baseball players. Ho got there when he handed out Si S. 500 fur I-anv Chappell. Barnev Prey fuss held the high card up to the Collins pur-' chasing day. after paying J2.&00 for Many O'Toote, long etneo proven a flivver fliv-ver and now back in the minor league. Hut Comiskey held other high purchases, probablv none of them any bigger than some other magnates had made, but the abundance of the "old Roman's" purchases pur-chases mode him the star. Only a few years ago he handed out $11,000 for Riiflsell Blackburn and alho paid J12.S0O for Ray Schalk. Eight-thousand -dollar marks were common com-mon in his offers, for lie paid that much for ring Bodle, a like amount for Bobby Roth and the same for RoMie Zeidcr. Tho $10,000 given for Murphy makes Comiskey stand out as the greatest buyer, ami any man who will spend his money to give the fans the best there is in the market cannot can-not feel much of the effects of the so-called so-called hard times in baseball. Comiskey hasn't stopped buying, either. Whenever bis new manager, Clarence Rowland, sees a player he would like to have all ho has to do Is to get to work and dicker for the desired player's ?er-vlcce. ?er-vlcce. Then lie tells Comiskey and that Bottles It. |