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Baseball's big league owners were worried about the loyalty of the help. A few genuine pros had already succumbed to Jorge Pasquel's gold-plated offers of Mexican liberation from serfdom. Many other ballplayers had cocked a sympathetic but suspicious ear. Quite a number had flirted fitfully with Robert Murphy's baseball union (TIME, June 3). Last week, the owners opened an offensive to kill disgruntlement with kindness...
...Pasquel v. Hornsby...
...JORGE PASQUEL...
...Hornsby on Pasquel: "He agreed to pay me extra for serving as a pinch hitter, but I never collected that. . . . I left a little ahead of the three months I was scheduled to handle the team, so I figured things were even." Advice to Mexico-jumping ballplayers: "Get all the money deposited in a bank on this side of the border. . . . They have funny standards down there...
...week's end, Jorge Pasquel got a dose of his own poison. Vern Stephens, who had jumped down to Vera Cruz for two games, jumped back into his old job with the Browns-at a reported $4,500 hike in pay. As a bargaining stick, Mexico's "beisbol" league could be used both ways...