Show HANK GOWDY MIGHTY FINE DRAWING CARD i manager shaloy stalling figures he Is most valuable asset when boys C onie corrie Mar marching phIng home blo catcher will be much worshiped hero herb also refused to sell bell rabbit maranville george stallings ls Is out 0 ut with a h story sto ry of ilow how lie refu refused sedan an offeror offer offe of 1500 for the rights of the doston boston braves tc hank gowdy it seems the offering club figured hank would be a big card for it after the hie war stallings figured u lie he would be just justas fas big biff a card for alie braves so there you ore are any way the story of the offer for gowdy as a boston writer tells it t has these features stallings Sta lUngs laughed at a t the offer for gowdy despite the comment freely offered that helas he was crazy to pass up such easy coin for a player in th trenches but them the georgian by sc doing saved the proves graves thousands anc thousands of dollars for when boys como come marching home honk hank will be a much worshiped hero and a nd lie he will bring in many moy thousands n ds of dollars karsgor ifor for the braves he could ju ibbe be sold today for the braves had the opportunity last winter vinter to sell both maranville the wonderful vond erful rabbit who then was waa in the navy and hank there were magnates magi i smart enough to see that either one 0 n e of them cul arly hank would be a mighty fine drawing card after A N V ON Z hank gowdy the war they were willing to gamble with the eccentricities of old man mars liars and take the chance that the athletes would come through the big battle for democracy in such condition th that at they c could 0 uld hop back into baseball and play the game with their old I 1 time dash and finish but stallings W E hapgood et al were just as smart as aa those other baseball magn magnates ates end and kept their clutches on hank and rabbit etwas it was the general opinion that the braves were hard up and would assets asse ts but it was a mistake and the braver braves of 1919 possibly of 1920 will reap the advantage of stallings far |