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Show Giants Make Final Offer ForMungo By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK. Dec. 17 lift The Giants, says President Horace Stoneham with finality, have made their last and best offer for Van Lingle Mungo, the Brooklyn pitcher, and they are worried to death. Stoneham, who Is young as presidents presi-dents go and full of enthusiasm, didn't say he was worried. He only said he had made the Brooklyn! Brook-lyn! his Sunday offer, and that they could take It or leave It alone. But he's worried, just the same. "I thought Brooklyn was crazy when it didn't accept our offer for Mungo." said Stoneham. "But when I learned what Chicago had offered them, I thought they were twice as crasy for not accepting and getting It down in writing, quick.".' Topnotch Hurler Mungo, one of the very best right-handed right-handed pitchers In the trade, has proved himself under difficulties, which is to say while wearing the Brooklyn livery. But Van Lingle has sworn not to pitch another lick for Brooklyn. He won't either. Every other club in the National league would give Itsright arm for the South Carolina fireballer, but only the Giants and the Cubs were sufficiently heeled In cash and play-ens play-ens to go after him in earnest at the recent meeting in Chicago. The Giants are known to have offered Pitcher Hal Schumacher, Catcher Gus Mancuso and Outfielder Outfield-er Hank Lieber and a chunk of cash estimated at $78,000 for him. If, as Stoneham reveals, the Cubs went higher than that, then they really laid something on the line. But the Brooklyns turned both of them down, and still are sulking. Want Demaree "What Brooklyn want's, of course, is the Cubs' outfielder, Frank Dem-aree," Dem-aree," said Stoneham. "The Cubs want to pay a lot of money for Mungo and to keep Demaree. They know . that Brooklyn needs the money. But I say that Brooklyn would be crazy to settle for the money. I'm offering them players good ones that will win ball games for them and that's what they need more than money. Taking money for immediate needs Is only staving off the inevitable in baseball." And there you have the reason for Stoneham'a worry. Ha knows that the Cubs, with both Mungo and the slugging Demaree, would be in position to give the Giants a dangerous dan-gerous run for the flag next season. He's sitting tight and hoping Brooklyn Brook-lyn will turn down the coarse money being flaunted by the Chicagoans. |