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Show 1811 TALIS OF SELLING IKS 'INT' Charles Webb Murphy is talking again. Now ho says ho Intends to retire from basoball, glvo Frank Chance an opportunity to buy out the club and go ahead with it. Imagine Murphy letting anybody grab the mint Any time Chance gets tho opjiortunlty he could cinch the bargain In two hours, and all it would cost him would be $2 In taxlcab bills needed to visit certain Chicago capitalists. capi-talists. Murphy is one of tho quickest (not to say easiest) rich mon In tho national na-tional game today When Hart and Anson were wrangling over stock matters early this century. Murphy, who was publicity man for Charles Taft, brother of the president, at a salary not exceeding ?100,000 a year and not less than $35 a week, stepped ,In. Ho induced his employer to mako an offer for the club, and they purchased pur-chased tho outfit for $103,000. Think of that' Thon Murphy and Chance proceeded to rip up the baseball world, turning out the most wonderful basoball machine ma-chine ever known. Insido of seven or eight years the club has made for Murphy alone a separato fortune apart from his baseball business. Klondike! Hush child; It's not In Alaska at all. It's right .here in tho baseball business. |