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Show Jennings Would Not Expose the Purchase Price DETROIT. Mich.. Jen. 2 Hughey Jen. nlngs opposes the giving out of the purchase pur-chase price of star minor leaguers. I "If I had my wav not a club In the ! league would announce lis purchase prtoee. declared he. "In nineteen cases out of twenty this prsctlce ruins a ball I player, hfarouard wasn't a bit of good lor I two years after he went to New York: I Marty O'Toole le not showing the stuff that made him the leading pitcher In the American essoclatlon. Hed Corildan would never have been a success In lie. trolt. 1 could name dosens of other instance, in-stance, where hall players went wrong Oeeause in the first I'V days Ui-y failed to live up to exectatlotin. and after that thv lost confidence In themselves. "What dlflerence does It make whether a man oosta the club 1:0 or t-'o.uno so long as he deltvere the goods? II Is the club's erf air If It chooses to pay a high price for the player. Just the same as It Is the clubs affair when It pays a star a big price for his services." |