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Show GOWDY WILL BE A BIG DRAWING CARD Cenrse Htslllnss Is out with a story of how he refused an offer Isst summer or tis.ooe for the rights of tha Boston Braves to Hank CSowdr. It aeems ths offerlne club flitured Hank would bs s bis; card after tha war. rUalllnfS fisiired he would be just as bl( csrd f..r the Braves. So there you are. But If some young catcher who never smellej powder HHuuld r" In 'he major league despite of his lack of slse? Anyway, the story of ths offer for I (iowdy, as a Boston writer tells It, has these features: mailings laughed at ths offer for Oowdy, despite ths comment, freely offered, of-fered, that he was crasy to pass up such easy coin for a player In ths trenchea. But the (leorglan, by so doing, saved the Braves thousands and thousands of dollars. Kor when the boys come inarching horns Hank will k, m mi.kt wurahlned here, mil ha will ! bring In many, many thousands of dollars dol-lars for the Hravea. He could ba sold tovlay for $.a.0oa. Tha Braves had tha opportunity last winter to aell both Maran villa, tha wonderful Kabblt, w.bo then waa In tha navy, and Hank. There wer mag. , natea smart enough to see that either ion of them, particularly Hank, would , be a mighty flna drawing card after the war. They were willing to gamble I with the eroenlrtcltisa of old man Mars nd take tha chance that tha athlete ' would eome through the big battle for democracy In even rndltMa that they j rould hop back ieuo baaeball sndj ptay the gam with tketr 44 Uoaa dsuUk and finish. But Utalllnga. W. C Ilapnd. et a I.. I wert ust as smart as tfcnoa f hr base-hall base-hall magnates and kept thetr clutch I on Hank and Rahblt. t sraa tha gen-i gen-i eral opinion that the Braves were I "hard up and would fell thee aaeeta j Hut ft waa a mist-ik. and the Hra.es of possibly f iJS. win reap the1 advantages of Stalling far aighted-pess. |