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...Wharf. When the time came round to sign a contract for his junior year, Little Businessman Di Maggio refused $25,000. He thought he was worth $40,000-not a cent less. Remembering well that Yankee Babe Ruth once got $80,000 a year from Owner Jacob Ruppert, Di Maggio held out all through the spring training season...
...when the regular season got under way last week and Owner Ruppert still refused to budge a dollar, Junior Di Maggio suddenly realized that he was not only losing $162 for every day he was missing from the Yankee line-up but was losing face with his teammates and his public as well. Anxious to have a high mark in Conduct as well as in Homeruns, 23-year-old Joe Di Maggio finally capitulated, wired Owner Ruppert his surrender...
Died. Col. Tillinghast l'Hommedieu Huston, 71, formerly co-owner (with Col. Jacob Ruppert) of the New York Yankees baseball club; of heart disease; in Brunswick, Ga. In 1923 he sold his stock in the club to Col. Ruppert...
...labor trouble. First symptom was a conspicuous number of "holdouts"-players who threatened not to play unless their owners paid them what they thought they deserved. Only remaining major holdouts last week were Yankee Pitcher Charles Ruffing who was demanding $1,000 more than the $16,000 Owner Jacob Ruppert thought he was worth, and First Baseman Adolph Camilli of the Phillies. Second symptom was a request by Representative Raymond J. Cannon of Wisconsin to U. S. Attorney General Homer Cummings to start anti-trust proceedings against owners of all organized U. S. baseball clubs on the grounds that they...
...games for baseball's "world championship" will be played on two fields not much more than a good outfielder's throw apart: the Polo Grounds, home field of young Horace Stoneham's New York Giants, and the Yankee Stadium, home field of old Jacob Ruppert's New York Yankees...