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Show Harry Rice Is Better "Player Than Thought Harry Rice, recently acquired by the Detroit Tigers from St. Louis for Ileinie Manush and Lu Blue, is a better bet-ter ball player than he ever looked to be in a St. Louis uniform. Rice is one of the fastest outfielders outfield-ers in either league, a wonderful judge of a fly ball and he has the bes throwing arm in baseball. He will hit better than .MOD for Detroit, says a writer in the Detroit News. Season before last Rice was one of the best batsmen in the league and a leading fielder. Before the start of the 11127 season he had a quarrel with the owner of the team. Bad feeling resulted and the breach was never healed. The inside story of the Rice deal is thai Rice was drawing several thousand thou-sand dollars less in salary than I wo or three other oul fielders carried by the St. Louis team and Rice knew, of course, that he was worth more salary than any other man on the pay roll. Rice balked and kept on balking. St. Louis had to let him go. |