Player Transferred for Big Sum New York, Dec, 21, One of the biggest deals ever made in the history of baseball was revealed to-night with the announcement of the transfer of Rogers Hornsby, manager and second baseman of the St. Louis Cardinals, thi year's champion baseball team, to the New York Giants.
Owing to. failure to agree on salary terms—Hornsby insisted upon $50,000 yearly with a three-year contract—and a quarrel with the chief owner of the St. Louis Club, Horns-by was. "traded" for two members of the Giants'. team.
It will be recalled that only two years ago one club offered the Car-finals $250,000 cash for their star hitter, The Giants. have "long been seeking a counter-attraction to Babe Ruth, the star of the New York Yankees, whose oilery is $52,000.
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