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Show IGNORED NAVY TEAM TO PLAY FOR YANKS Bob Shawkey Made Mistake by Pitching for Old Team. Offer of $100 Per Game From New York American LLeaguers Proves Too Strong for Hurler and He Is Transferred. Yeoimin Robert W. Shawkey, U. S. N., is now at sou, having been transferred trans-ferred from the League Island navy yard at Philadelphia, where he was au accountant, to a transport. According to statements made to the writer by a certain Philadelphian, Hob's sea trip followed his decision to pitch for the Yankees when his services serv-ices were desired by the League Island . team, writes John W. Lawrence in New York Mall. Shawkey pitched several games for the Yankees in Philadelphia and Washington after he entered the navy, joining the team while he was on furlough. fur-lough. It happened that on one or two of these occasions the League Island 3 6Q ,P A y v H . "Ar ; l 'AAA' : a Bob Shawkey. team put In a bid for Shawkey's serv ices. He was a member of this team at the time and had pitched several games for it. Bob didn't know just what to do, but an offer of 5100 a game from the Yanks assisted him materially in making up his mind. The League Island team played without Shawkey and lost Bob pitehed winning ball for his old teammates team-mates against the Athletics and the Senators. This, according to our informant, had an altogether retrogressive effect on the great twirler's popularity in Philadelphia naval circles. Shawkey discovered that he'd made a diplomatic blunder that even his winning personality couldn't wipe out. He found that he was politically in wrong. A few days ago Bob received orders transferring him to sea duty and he is now on an eastward-bound transport. |