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Baseball's high-priced bonus player is as often as not a disappointing flop. Two current examples: Pittsburgh's Pitcher Paul Pettit ($100,000), now laboring for his fourth minor-league club, the Hollywood (class AAA) Stars, and Cleveland's Pitcher Billy Joe Davidson (more than $100,000), who has yet to show much of anything in the Class B Tri-State League. In Brooklyn last week, Dodger fans were happily pointing to a less expensive ($22,000) exception: Righthander Billy Loes (rhymes with throws), a good-looking 22-year-old who did his schoolboy pitching right...
This week Chelsea's defense fell apart. Arsenal "smashed and grabbed" the playoff 3 to 0. For their work, each player was rewarded with a ?15 ($42) bonus. There was ?2 extra for each of the winners to augment their weekly pittance of ?14, standard salary for all first-division players, regardless of ability. The money would hardly pay the fishing-equipment bill of the Boston Red Sox's $125,000-a-year outfielder, Ted Williams...
...tank corps; during the 19203, after reverting to his permanent rank of captain, he gradually rose to major; was No. i man in his class (1926) at the Fort Leavenworth Command & General Staff School; in 1932 stood by Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur during Washington's famed bonus march; in 1933 became MacArthur's aide; from 1935 to late 1939 served as MacArthur's right hand in the Philippines; learned also to fly a plane (300 air hours); distinguished himself in the 1941 Louisiana maneuvers as chief of staff to Lieut. General Walter Kreuger...
...best rookie last year. He can play second or third. I don't know where I'll play him . . . I'm still experimenting ... I still got the best utility infielder [Billy Martin*] in the majors . . . And how about that guy [$65,000 bonus-boy Andy Carey] on third today? Got three hits, didn't he? . . . What's the matter with my man on first [Joe Collins]? He can hit [.286]. He can field. Name me a better one in the league...
...bonus, this recent announcement should also gag local sportswriters who have been clamoring for a formal New England League with Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth playing B.U., B.C., and Holy Cross. There would be little room at present for all of these schools on all-Ivy schedules and furthermore the Ivy policy itself would probably appear too sugar-coated for these gate-receipt, publicity conscious colleges...