Show MINORS SEEK I LOFTY LOFTY FOR PLAYERS Majors Majors Vi Trying To To Get Alon Without Coast League Stars BY GEORGE CHADWICK Special Correspondent Corre ot Of o The Tho 1023 1923 NEW KEW YORK Aug AUff 4 i There Ther h is 1 many a 0 laugh today In the efforts of the minor leagues to create a market for ball boIl players and the tho at- at at attempts attempts tempts of the major leaguers to toe toc e c the world that they con can cango canso go along alone the way they are It Is August ut Time is taking up P its lis links If It ther there is no demand for players now when will there be one The Th minors ore are ar looking ahead and they need not worry WOrl The on the other side ot of ottile othe tile the baseball fence What ore are the waterlogged major m jors league ague teams team going to do for another season If they cannot get to drydock and ond fix up Up the old craft for 1924 1 2 7 2 Thorn Thero are too many ninny down and out second l division teams The owners ran can cangO canno gO back with them in 1 1924 24 but what s tart sOrt of ot a n reception will they get from the public It If it Is true that thai the game ot of politics now being played In base base- baseball baseball ball ha has for tor Its object t the tho punish punish- punishment mont ment of at o the tho minor which refuse to abide by major lc the Coast league can Ican well afford to wait another year and cultivate ote Its players Eventually they will be wanted by the majors and will be taken by the th majors It has been Inti Intimated mated so o often tEn that the tho major leagues lea have decided the Pacific Coast league leacue must be punished be- be because be because cause it Is i as strictly non non-dratt as s the tho Pacific Pacific- ocean Is strIctly salt mIt that It Is now accepted a as halt half a fact No one has denied It Probably Probably Probably ably it Is not true tru but hut the tate state statement staf ment may soothe the tho injured feel feel- feelIngs feel Ings of ot soma soma-of of those who make mak up upI the major leagues I No scouts are on the tho hO PacIfic Coss e except the local Dill Lange is still looking around for players for tor the Giants pat Pat Moran has one or two u westerners watch watch- watchIng watching watching ing for him but the crowds crows of hory hunters which roamed the country in 1922 1 22 are arc absent Six EgX x of ot them landed at one game ame In California on the same sameI I day and were so busy buy dodging each ach other around corners of ot the grand crand- grandstand stand tand tho that none saw taw the game same yet wired aired a report home homo that night Better buy Bill Ulli Blimp He HeIs Heis His Is the goods roods It is pretty well known that Shortstop Shortstop Rhyne of the San FranCISCO Francisco Fran- Fran T CISCO club Is probably the best In t fielder on th coast but there ar arno f no st stones mes of at offers of for to At t this time last year ear every ry train tram lea leasing leavin Oakland more or less carried tons of ot publicity about and 0 CouncIl Connell It J may b be that is not much better than the shortstop material now cavorting in the ma- ma majors ma majors jors Jots but there are big league teams Learns which would use almost anythIng any any- anything thing rather than continue with what they have Yet there is nn nit move to invade California NA- NA NAtional Na National league capital has spread itself around the he coast ost league and the New York Americans handled on the coast in such a bungling way woy that Landis had hod to some of ot them then free tre and everybody very body Is tight fights lag Ing shy NOTHING G TO SELL The American Association has nothing to sell nor nor- has the international International Honal league leacu except t JacK Jick Dunn or Baltimore Odd nv l-nv JW tl t man re refuses re- re refuses fuses to listen to reason He lie talk talks of nothing less than Ihan for ot ball players player justi Just i i- in 1 ne as n did a ago No major league owner can change his hili attitude Mr Dunn has reasons of bs ns own He lie will still get his his price or he elI will III not move mo hit hl payers away from the r I hearthstone He has hos two s cry much In demand d mand One is a II short short- shortstop shortstop stop short stop named Boley foley The Brooklyn for him o and LI Brooklyn fans intimated that his I cognomen should Isaac have been ben when Lacy iney herd heird Ine price Yet It was a bonafide offer of r No mat mat- mattor mattex mat matter I matI tex ter what he lie ile cost cot Holey could not hove made a championship OUtfit of the Brooklyn Brooklyn team in 1923 Baltimore V also has a pitcher named a left left-hander that ball players say has a curve cune lIh more twists than modern bucket bucket- shop bucket shop methods It has been boen hinted to Dunn that some of the majors major I might like to buy this young youny man Dunn answered One hundred l dollars Hant Ha nt this ln n heard beard of the new now ers eri in base base- base baseball ball bail asked the official hunters of the maids mj That era ra means to Dunn Ho lie held out against the draft because lIe ho thought it was the ruination of the minors and because ho lie had promised tp to to run a first class team In Baltimore lie asks pertinently why he ha should not bo be as os privileged to run a first class team in Baltimore as ad Ebbetts Is to runn runa run n a first class club cub In Brooklyn So far there has been no Do answer anser ans er The Tho other day announcement a came me from the hOme horn town of a promising minor league ue pla player er t that at athis his release o was a about out to bo be bought by an on unnamed club tot for That was WM simply a new way stay for the minors folDers to announce a 0 price on th the player and anti at the same time tim putout putout put out a II feeler to see sec If it is true that no more players are to b be bought hought tor that suns sum |