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Show JIM O'CONNELL SAYS NOTORIETY v ; OF SALE WON'T INJURE PLAYING LY T W -v fe-' jl ' At the Right, Jimmy O'Connell, the $75,000 Beauty, and With Him Willie Kamm, Who Figures to Bring Even More Cash Into the 8n Francisco Club Owners' Safe When He Is Sold This Year. Notoriety of the purchase of Jimmy O'Connell for $75,000 by the New York Giants from the San Francisco Seals has a different psychological effect on arlous players. Every one believes that the attention attracted to O'Connell O'Con-nell through the sale will mean considerable con-siderable "razzing" from the bleachers. bleach-ers. O'Connell himself says lie expects It, "but It won't bother me." On the other hand, Willie Kamm, another brilliant star of the San Francisco team, who Is considered next In line to follow O'Connell to the majors at a big purchase price, says he would not like to be In O'Connell's shoes and that such notoriety would bother old mnn Kamm's son. "Yes. I guess the fans will kid me about being a $75,000 beauty," said O'Connell, "but that won't bother me. I know I'm no beauty and I haven't $75,000; so what's the use? Naturally Natural-ly I would rather have them pulling for me It sort of helps a fellow' yet I know razzing Is a part of the baseball base-ball profession, and when a fellow gets a certuln amount of It, then he does not pay any nnre attention to ttl I got my share after the Chicago Cubs offered $10,000 for me before I had played a game In the Coast league, and for a while It bothered me." Kamm Is Different. On the other hand, Kamm shows an altogether different feeling. He says : "I think O'Connell Is a marked player and will be for some time to come. Personally I would not like to be in his place. The fans will undoubtedly un-doubtedly expect too much from him and If he makes a boot or falls to come through In a pinch, they surely will give him a good time'. It Is all very well o say that their abuse does not bother you, but it does all the same. I hope when I am sold that It will be for an ordinary sum, lacking in the national notoriety that O'Connell received. re-ceived. It may be all right for the 'gate' but that does not help a player's personal feelings In the matter. I know when a mnn climbs the ladder and Into fame he is more or less a public pub-lic character, but I don't want to climb any $75,000 ladder." |