Show Heres Here's How Dizzy Decided To Sign Redbird Contract 0 By JIM TOWERS POWERS Special to The Telegram NEW YORK Dec Dee 12 Dizzy Dizzy Dean will appear next year in a comic strip There he will be held up before the envious eyes o of hungry V juveniles as an obedient lad who spooned up all his spinach and pitch pitch- L- L VL forked his regular ration of breakfast hay Behind this lies th the 2 heretofore untold story of ot Mr Deans Dean's signing a Cardinal pitching contract Dizzy was in Bradenton Fla Fia two weeks ago and he was positively not Interested in President Sam Breadon's Bread Bread- on's ons 1935 salary of Sam as head of the Cardinals Cardinals Car Car- W. W was anxious anxious anxious ious to corral the eccentric r rig right right- i g h t t. liander hander and complete complete com com- the sale of oC his club to L Lew e w Wentz oil m mil millionaire ii- ii S from Ponca Pon- Pon ponca I ca City Dizzy hollered hol No Not Nol I so vehemently ve ye- that Sam caught the n next ext train back to St St. L Louis M 1 e an while In Jn New York a Dl Diu Dizzy Dean certain advertising agency was planning a campaign for tor 1935 Lets get Dean to boost our food pro said one alert official official of of- who knew his baseball onions but before we sign sin him lets let's be sure he Is not going to be bea a 10 holdout If he gets mad at Breadon reports late for train train- log inc pitches badly or goes to Hollywood t tb make a picture while lies he's sulking his value to us will skid one So afternoon a few days later laler Dizzy was as called to a certain room in the River hotel in Braden ton A Awaiting waiting him was a brisk agency executive Im Vaughn Flannery said the stranger and Dizzy always eager to make friends shook hands Briefly Mr Flannery outlined I his proposition If uIt you stop quibbling with Uh Breadon over oer chicken feed teed and sign signs a St. St Louis players player's contract for one year we will immediately shove another another another an an- other contract under your our nose for he said Dizzy's heels clicked against the floor loor me mc pard body and soul he snapped and then as an afterthought he pleaded only dont don't make me too silly in funny pictures Ahem my wife Patsy Palsy seems cems to think Im I'm handsome Dizzy signed two contracts that afternoon The wi witnesses wit wit- n nesses ses were sere a lawyer named Clarence Eldrige who used to be an umpire and a crony of or orDean's Deans Dean's from St. St Louis a furniture dealer name named l Flack The Ink was still wet on the papers when Dizzy snatched at atthe atthe atthe the telephone He lie called a a. kid reporter on the Bradenton Her Her- aid and announced that he had signed d with the Cards lie He said nothing nothing- about the second con tract After he had hung up the receiver Dizzy said Maybe I should have called Breadon and the St. St Louis papers first but shucks this local fellow is a pal of 01 mine He Hc sits down here year after year waiting for a hurricane to hit the town so o he can get into the headlines I thought h he deserved a break you break you know this isa isa is isa a pretty good story Im I'm the hi highest priced m man n In iii baseball now Ill I'll get It more than Ruth Terry Terr Frisch or Gehri- Gehri |