"Huggins has full authority to act
for us," said Ruppert last night, "and
when he signed Ruth to an agree
ment it means the same as if the
player signed a contract. The agree
ment unquestionably provides for
New York taking over Ruth's Boston
contract with certain inducements
which may be .satisfactory to the
player."
Despatches from the far West quote
Ruth as saying that he will hold out
for part of the purchase money. Rup
pert said that is entirely up to Frazee.
"We paid a pretty handsome price for
Ruth, and it ds up to Frazee to do
whatever he pleases with the pur
chase money,"
Ruppert said the club already had
received bundies of letters and tele
grams congratulating it on the ac
quisition of the famous home run
champion. The general tone of the
letters is that the Yankees finally
have taken their place with the real
topnotch teams of baseball, and from
all sides come predictions that the
ctulb will bring home the 1920 pennant
"The fans seem immensely pleased,"
said Ruppert, "and I think they now
are convinced that we intend to give
New York some real American League
baseball."
Ruppert reiterated his statement of
last Monday night that 'the Yankees
hope to add one or two additional
stars to the team before the training
season opens.
"We are pretty strong as we stand
now," said Ruppert, "tout we have
several other deals , under considera
tion that we would like to put over.
There are a few more positions we
should like-to brace up (before we
start our pennant drive next spring.
