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Show BY THE INSIDER Baseball stars are hard to find. Hard to keep and pa Yel they're worth It, every cent, So the Yankees say. Pig league scouts are lookin' round, Searching lor the "Kabes, ' LJut when ihev hi ar the prices named Gosh' Their bank roll fades. Mister Drower socked a few With his four-base slou'. Seven i lubs they hid for htm The price vvab fifteen thou'. Since the draft rule took th count The majors are In tears Those crarty minor leaguers Prove darn good profiteers. With a scarcity of real talent In thej big leagues, the minor league fallows ate asking small fortunes for their r.tars and reviving tho well-known squeeze plaj Take Prank BroWer of the Reading Read-ing club, for example. He's the Babe'' Ruth of the International Sev - en major league clubs held a bidding' bee for him Clark Griffith Is reported re-ported to have bid him in for a mere $15,000. Poxy Griff may have a lot of window win-dow lights to pay for in Washington next year. He's also picked off ' Bing" Miller, the homer king of the Southern association If the draft rule was in vogue, the muin tenters could cast lots for the minor league stirs uiring the-winter the-winter months and keep some ot thei enormous profits. The squeezing of the big fellows by the little teiloWs may bring about another an-other baseball war this fjil ufler the championship season. The big teilovvs will be hollering to go bacK to the draft rule and the Huh. fellows -ingoing to do some- man-sized kicking. Players are pretty certain to" ask for fat increases n salaries next year, 'ihey don't rubber at the packed stands e-vei.v day Just to be Streti hlng their necks. And there' more than just wind in the cloud mat's in the offing secretly sec-retly called the Baseball Players' Union. Un-ion. Ho: Hum! It looks like there would be some hot stove-leaguing by and b' The well-known "cuph" is the root of many a lively " ball. |