Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — PAID $12,000 FOR RUSSELL? [ARTICLE]

PAID $12,000 FOR RUSSELL?

Connie Mack Thought to Have Been Asleep If He Ever Paid That Bum for Pitcher. They say Connie Mack paid $12,001 for Pitcher Russell of the Baltimore club. Acquaintances of the astute manager of the Athletics are from Missouri, however. If Connie Mack 'ever paid $12,000 for any player, he must be addicted to sleep walking, or has changed his system most radically, says Chicago Sunday Sporting Telegram. Heretofore Connie has been content to get bis players very cheaply and develop them himself. Plank, Bender, Coombs, Collina, Barry and Krause did not cost him a cent He got Morgan In trade tor Sohlltser. Harry Davis came to him with the franchise, as did "Topsy** HartseL Danny Murphy may have cost him a few hundred, and Baker, Oldrlng, Atkins, Dygert and Heitmuller cost him a few thousand apiece, but it is doubtful if all the men on the Philadelphia payroll cost Mack much over $12,000 at the outset.