Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1913 — $18,000 PAID FOR A PLAYER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

$18,000 PAID FOR A PLAYER

Comlskey of Chicago White So>x la Latest to Pay Fabulous Price for Hard Hitting Player.

Owner Charles Comlskey, of the Chi* cago American league team, Is the latest magnate to go into the baseball market and pay a fabulous price for a ball player. The head of the White Sox has purchased Larry Chapell from the Milwaukee club of the American association, at a price that is said to total SIB,OOO. This makes Chapell the second highest priced ball player that ever came up from the minors, Marty O’Toole, the $22,500 “wonder,” still holding the crown. The price paid by Comlskey for Chapell includes the market value of two players, the actual cash consideration being $12,000, it Is said, the two players figuring at $3,000 apiece. Outfielder John Beall was one of the men traded to Milwaukee in the deal, the other being a catcher who is to be turned over to Milwaukee next spring. Chapell goes Into the major league touted as one of the most sensational outfielders of recent years. His batting in the American association has, been in the neighborhood of .370, and it was this mark that drew the attention of more than half of the big league clubs. The Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Naps were the heaviest bidders against Comlskey, Murphy even

wiring that he would better any other offer. When Comiskey set his final price via long distance phone, Murphy was not given a chance to raise the ante. Chapell’s ascension to fame has been meteoric. In the spring of 1911, as a mere kid, he treked out of his home town, McCloskey, 111., to do outfield duty for the Eau Claire. Wls., club. He was the class of the league from the start, and Hugh Duffy, then manager at Milwaukee, picked him for a star. Duffy dispatched a representative to the Wisconsin burg and in a few days the representative was back with Chapell, for whom he paid the meager sum of S2OO. Chapell joined the club in the middle of the season and began to improve wonderfully under Duffy’s tutelage. Last year he continued to pick up and finished the race with a batting average of .274. This spring he started off sensationally, and in no time had big league scouts watching him. He Is a big fellow, twenty-twp years of age, bats left-handed and throws right. , ‘

Larry Chapell.