Frank Menke, in his national syndicated reports from Philadelphia and Boston, polled the 1915 World Champion Boston Red Sox who received a winner’s share of $3,779.98 for each player, to find out how their windfall would be spent:
“Whatcha gonna do with it?
‘”Now that you asked,’ spoke up George Foster, a Boston pitching person, ‘I believe I will join J. Pierpont (Morgan) and some of my other fellow millionaires in making that loan to the allies.’
“’I’ll slip mine into an old rock,’ said catcher (Forest ‘Hick’) Cady. ‘I don’t trust banks. I knew a banker once who borrowed $10 from me. He still owes in.’
“’Cady’s experience doesn’t alter my trust in bank,’ said Tris Speaker. ‘I’ll drag this roll back to Texas with me and put it where I’ve got some more.”’
Speaker
Dick Hoblitzel and Jack Barry both said they were buying cars.
“Duffy Lewis will use his $3,779.98 in the purchase of a few more orange groves in California, his home state.
“Harry Hooper, also a Californian, will do likewise.”
Menke said Hal Janvrin and Mike McNally “the substitute kid infielders” declined to answer.
“’I’ve been reading so much about how a guy with three thousand copecks can run it up to a million in the stock market. I’m going to take a chance with an investment—and I may not.’ Said Babe Ruth, the southpaw flinger.”
Heinie Wagner, Ray Collins, and manager Bill Carrigan all said they were buying land; Wagner was purchasing real estate in the Bronx, while Collins and Carrigan were investing in farm land.
Carrigan, right
“Vean Gregg, who was a plasterer before he became a pitcher, told about a prosperous plastering business somewhere out on the Pacific Coast he wanted to buy.”
Del Gainer, Pinch Thomas, Olaf Henricksen, Carl Mays, Everett Scott, and Ernie Shore all planned to bank their money.
Babe Ruth and Ernie Shore
“And when we approached Dutch Leonard, the portside flinger, and the last Red Hosed person in the roundup.
“’How about you?’”
“’Well, I’m gonna spend part of it taking a few more boxing lessons. Then, when I’m fully conversant with the art of self-defense I’m going out and bust the noses of about two dozen of these ‘sure thing birds’ who want me to invest my money in wild cat schemes. After that I’ll stow the money in a bank and watch it grow.”’
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