Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1913 — BUILT UP TEAM ON $45,000 [ARTICLE]

BUILT UP TEAM ON $45,000

Manager Dahlen of Brooklyn Bpent but Little Money in (setting Contending Team Together. How a major league ball dub that threatened for a time early in the season to be a contender for the pennant in the National league was gathered together for an outlay of $45,000, Is the story by C. H. Ebbets, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ebbets shows figures to prove that the present members of the Brooklyn team were obtained either by draft of purchase at an outlay of not more than $45,000. When Dahlen assumed the management in the spring of 1910 be began weeding out the old material, with the result that Rucker, Hummel, Knetzer anjl Wheat are the only players left of the former lineup. Hummel was purchased for SI,OOO from Hoyloke, Mass., in 1905, Rucker, one of the pitching stars of the National league, was drafted from Augusta in 1907 for the ridiculous sum of SSOO, while Knetzer and Wheat were purchased in 1909 for $2,500 and $1,500 respectively. Daubert was placed on first base in Dahlen’s flf-st year after he' had been drafted from Memphis for $1,500. In 1911 the Brooklyn club secured these men: Miller from Duluth, $750; Ragon from Nashville, $3,500, and Erwin from Rochester, $3,500. In 1912 Ebbets obtained Shortstop Fisher from Newark for $3,500; Kent from Birmingham for $1,000; Allen from Mobile, $5,200; Kirkpatrick from Dayton, $2,000; Stangel from Aurora, $750; Phelps from Toronto, $2,500; Tingling from Toledo, $1,500; Curtis from Philadelphia Nationals, $1,500; Moran from Rochester, $1,500, And Cutsaw from Oakland, for $1,500. Reviewing the list, Ebbets pointed out that Dahlen has built up a comparatively young team. Of the players he has turned loose, only one, Hub Perdue of the Boston Nationals, still draws his salary in the big league.