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Show HANK GOWDY MIGHTY FINE DRAWING CARD Manager Stallings Figures He Is Most Valuable Asset. When Boys Come Marching Home, Big Catcher Will Be Much Worshiped Hero Also Refused to Sell Rahbit Maranville. !'oi'Hi Shillings Is out. wilh n story of how In- rcfuserl mi offer of Sfl.'.OO ) for the rilns of llio I lost on lirnvcs to Hunk (iowily. II. . kim-iiis tin; offoriii.' club liuui'oil llimk would ho !i liiK '"ird for II iiftci- Iho wnr. SliillliiKS 11k-tircd 11k-tircd In' would lie Just us bljj u curd for the Ilrnvcs. So there you lire. Any wuy the story of the offer for Gowdy, us 11 I'.oslon writer tells It, bus tliOfe feat ures : Slnlliiurs lunched ut the offer for (iowdy, de,s)It(! the coinirient, freely offered, Unit he whs cruzy to puss up such eiisy coin for a player In the trenches, lint the fjeorlnn, by so dolnj?, Kiivi.'d the I'.ruves tliousands und Ihousands of dollars. For when the hoys come marching homo Untile will he u imich-wor.shlped hero, and he will brliitf In ninny, m:ny thousands of dol-lurs dol-lurs for the I'.raves. lie could be sold today for ifliij.OOO. Tlie I'.raves had the ofiporlunity last winter to sell both Maranville, the wonderful rabbit, who then was In the navy, and I lank. There were magnates mag-nates smart enough to see that either one of them, particularly Hank, would be a inlylity fine drawing card after A ?J '' 'a p L'-'l vli it- pp?-J "Jk I" '( ' 'vl Hank Gowdy. the war. They were willing to gamble gam-ble with the eccentricities of old man Mars and take the chance that the athletes ath-letes would come through the big battle bat-tle for democracy in such condition that they could nop back into baseball base-ball and play the game with their old-time old-time dash and finish. But Stallings, W. E. Hapgood et al. were just as smart as those other baseball base-ball magnates and kept their clutches on Hank and Rabbit. It was the general gen-eral opinion that the Braves "were hard up" and would sell these assets. But it was a mistake, and the Braves of 1919, possibly, of 1920, will reap the advantage of Stallings' far-sightedness. |