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Show mm is m Total of $150,000 Realized From Sale of Former World Champs. NEW YOPK, l'''l- 23. Just a little loss than five years ago the name of Connie Mack and his famous world's champion Athletics was a by-word with baseball fans throughout the country. The fans were still hashing over the wonderful feats of that greatest of all Philadelphia clubs and lauding Mack as the wizard among managers. Today the members of the famous Maekmon are scattered. The sale of Stuffy Mclnnis to the Red Sox sent the last of tiie once great team away from Ouakertown and long, lean Connie Mack remains -clone as, a reminder of better davs. Baker, 'Barry. Collins and M.-Innis, u-' the once great infield of the Philadel-!.- 1 phia champions, are members of rivr". & , clubs now. Eddie Plank is on r, 1: tired list and Coombs and Bender ai-.i, in the rival major leagues with the Dodgers and Phils. Bullet Joe Bush, j Wall! Schang, Strunk, Walsh, Oldring . and .Murphy were sent awav one by ! one. and about all that Mack has left is , a franchise. Even Harry Davis hss announced his retirement. ! Five vears ago Mack would not have I sold his famous ball club, as a whole, for half a million iron men. The Infield In-field combination alone was valued at, ' i lOu.OnO. But under the plan Mack used of disposing of his stars the Phila- delphia club received a total of around ! .l.jfi.rmo in all. i Collins is said to have brought $;n.-000; $;n.-000; Baker. irio.Of'O: Barrv, -7300. and S'-hang, Srrunk, Bush and Mclnnis a total of s'OO.OOO in cash and Boston plavers in addition. ; Several years go Mack gave out a statement to the effect that he -.--s disposing of r.layers because or" ' ':'-' ':'-' ferences between the men and the n-agemoat. n-agemoat. '" said he would not have a player o. . his club who would not . give the club his best services, or who was dissatisf ied. Y'et the famous Athletics Ath-letics seem to have given Mack their best, eise they could never have captured cap-tured so many world's pennants, i The bi caking up of the Maekmen, in 'the manner it all came about, is the . only case of the kind in big league , history. |