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Show I GIANTS BUY STAR JEWISH PLAYER "Hlokory Mom" Solomon, Hard-Hitting Busher. Moaes Solomon, the Babe Buth of the minor leagues, haa been purchased by the Giants. The Jewish slugger of the Hutchinson (Kan.) club of the f outhweatern league, who has made 43 home runs In 112 games, was acquired , "for a price nearly that of O'Connell and Bentley." It la reported that the ownera of the Olanta gambled to the extent of $50,000 on the chance that Mose will make good. Hunted for Jaw. Tn discussing the purchase of Solomon, Solo-mon, John J. McGraw siid that for many yeara the New York club had been hunting high and low for a first class Jewish ball player. "We appreciate ap-preciate that many of the fans In New York are Jews, and we have been trying try-ing to land a prospect of Jewish blood," said McGraw. "However, we haven't seen many around. Sammy Bohne of the Reds, whose real name la Cohen and he'd be Cohen In the box score, too, if I had hlra la practically prac-tically the only Jewish player who haa come up In some years. "Apart from the far that we want to land a Jewish hitter we seem to have acquired a young first baseman who may startle the baseball world. Every club In the big leagues was after him and we had to bid high to get Moses. IJO wanted to come to New York, and was tickled to death when we bought him. Moses Solomon Is not a big boy. He stands only 5 feet 9V4 Inches fh his socks, and he weighs 175 pounds. He Is a native of Columbus, O., where he developed In the sand lot league. He Is twenty-two yeara old, and while his main Job la at first base, he also has done some outfieldlng. He is a left-handed hitter. In the Southwestern Southwest-ern league they call hlra Hickory Mose. Jewish ball players in the major leagues have been few and far between. be-tween. The best of them all and one of the greatest catchers of all time waa Johnny Kling pf the Cubs, Ers-klne Ers-klne Mayer of the Phillies, a pitcher; hla brother, Sammy, who was an outfielder out-fielder with Washington for a while; Kane, who pitched for the Phillies for a spell ; Holme of the Reds, and Rosenberg, Rosen-berg, a young shortstop from San Francisco, now with the White Sox, are the only others listed. |
