Show MANY MINOS MINOR LEAGUE STARS SHOW CLASS CLAS S 0 1 r 1 V 9 W 4 1 9 w A TA V V 00 1 da HIGH PRICED PLAYERS FROM MINORS when a minor league star Is purchased by a big league club aria and tile the size of ills his price Is mentioned in the papers the fans who rend read about it tire are pleased to express some amusement there has been more than one beauty dished up front from the bushes only to strut hip hl little hour upon the major league stage and then be heard of no more inore and the fan lins lias begun to feel that thai the higher they are priced the harder they fall marty Is probably the lie most illustrious of the 1000 SM len lemons legions ions and marty deserves every bit of his high repute when the pirates came clean with to the st paul club for they seemed persuaded that eliat he hc would be worth it most anyone admits today that lie ho was not there have of course been others in OTo oles class but scarcely so BO many on the whole as to warrant the idea that every costly buher is sure to flunk on the contrary there are arc many who bayo been worth every cent of the thousands i nai ahti they have cost an line there have also been others you may inny have heard heane of speaker and cobb fr instance and matty and walter Jo johnson linson who were abre had for or a few erhun hun ired dollars it Is reasonable to suggest that rood good fortune has haa hod had lots to do in III these affairs it if it were possible for a manager to ninke make suro sure of a players class in making a deal there would bo be fewer fetter deals lint hut though more than once the big price has haa been a mistake there are plenty of cases when it was not charley comiskey tho the white som owner oner has been stung more inore than once but then again ho lias has picked up talent that ivas aa worth all it cost rny ray schalk Is said to linvs havo brought something close to and tile tho sox will never regret a cent of it map gnp Is another high priced beauty who ho cost just about us as much as schalk and comiskey Is more than pleased with the deal chief meyers and hal chase were considered high priced youngsters young stera when they first carne up to tile the majors and they both performed with till nil the class their bush bengue work haq had promised both the chief find and hal vi were ere considered most costly tn in a day when the prices for players were more moderate fritz maisel cost the tha yanks yanka ard the release of pan dan lela and when he ha joined them from baltimore |