Show BEHOLD A BASEBALL CLUB WITHOUT ONE HOLDOUT CHICAGO March Behold a ball club without a holdout The same Is not the Cubs nor the White Sox Sex but it is by a a. Chicago man The club involved is the Cleveland the head of which is James Dunn the chief member of of the Dunn McCarty-Dunn Construction company Old Colony building Our club is signed said Mr Dunn i today We Ve nave no holdouts Why I even sent a contract to Joe Wood I for a sum based on a schedule of games as compared with the to which he was signed last yearS year I got gota a letter from him the other day In which h he said Never mind about the short schedule Ill I'll play for what ver you offer Can yo that No you cant It is a peculiar situation that exists 1 In Cleveland Dunn and associates took over that club when Charles Somers Som- Som I ers who had been angel of the American American Amer- Amer ican league fell Into the hands of his bankers because lie he delved too deeply Into real estate leases and mining prop prop- The Cleveland ball club was appraised at leEs lers than by the bankers bankers' committee that had Mr Somers' Somers Somers' Somers Som- Som ers ers' affairs In hand Dunn paid a lot lotmore lotmore more than that for the outfit becausE his his- friend Ban Johnson said the Investment investment in- in vestment wa-s wa worth while Then came the trade involving Tris Speaker and the stepped out and made money I Last summer the members of the Cleveland ball club got together and I presented Mr Dunn with a SWiSS I watch a valuable timepiece and a gift backed by the best wishes of all in- in I This was the first time in the history of modern baseball that the players ever thought enough of a a club I owner to do such IL a thing Dunn carries this watch and takes a heap of pride in It lie He displays it on all Possible I I occasions And then he turned around and signed his ban bail club without one one man kicking on the salary involved This J indeed is an unusual situation |