Show n I I I I I I I I I I I I S S i I I I I I I I I I I 1 White Sox OX Paid Record seer Price rice for or Cissell isse Rookie Fielder Des Moines club of the Western league paid the United THE T States army ormy just 83 85 for the discharge of Chalmer Claimer W. W Cissell from the Fourteenth cavalry two years ago ngo A few months later Inter Des Moines sold the release of this young man to the Portland club of ot the Pacific Coast Const league for and it has cost the Chicago White Sox to buy his release from Portland This Is believed to be the record price paid for fora a player t. t The actual cash paid was only but Charles Comiskey owner of ot the thc White Sox Sot was forced to Include four players in the deal demo One was Pitcher Bert Cole who cost Chicago a year ago ngo Another was Outfielder Ike Boone who cost the Sox In 1027 Bill Cissell seems to have had lead the baseball germ in him since a n amere amere mere boy In fact he scarcely can remember when he be did not play pIny He HeIs HeIs Heis Is Just twenty-four twenty years of ot age Then he moved to St. St Louis where he started to learn the trade of ot a n nt candy maker He paused outside of n a United States recruiting station t one day to give the gaudy posters Illustrating what Joy It was to be bea a bold soldier boy a n look and upon Impulse enlisted in the cavalry Stationed at Jefferson barracks St. St Louis he later was transferred to the Second cavalry at Fort Riley RUey Kansas and still later Inter he was assigned to Fort Des Moines located near Des Moines Iowa He divided y his time between playing baseball and becoming an expert in breaking and training horses In fact he Showed shoved such aptitude with the fractious steeds t that hat he was promoted to the rank of corporal and detailed to training reI rein re re- Yi d in moon mounts on I 1 It was as a ballplayer however that he attracted the attention of the Des Moines Western league club I t girl which obtained his discharge from the army when his enlistment had two A ears years to go He was used as utility infielder for a few weeks and then was as Installed as the regular short short- 1 lending leading the Western league short fielders in averages and hitting On the strength of that showing Chalmer halmer W W. Cissell In Action Portland club bought him for r u |