Monday, Dec. 21, 1925
Shrewd
For great athletes to use their names to promote business projects is an accepted tradition of U. S. sport. Harold Grange recently, it is reported, accepted $1,000 to say a certain brand of cigarets was good, although he saved his self-respect by refusing $10,000 which was offered him if he would say he smoked that brand. Honus ("Hans") Wagner, bowlegged shortstop, ran for sheriff in a Pennsylvania county. William T. Tilden found that he could get stories into magazines, although even his best friends agreed that his literary proficiency was none too good. Last week on an inside sheet of the Tampa Morning Tribune, a famed baseball manager turned his valorous name to shrewd and blatant use.
Don't Wait until the Ninth Inning IS THE ADVICE THAT I, JOHN J. McGRAW, would give you if you were playing baseball for me.
It's the advice I'm giving you now. GAMES ARE WON IN THE EARLY INNINGS!
Since I first announced that I would give the people of Florida "First Call" on homesites in beautiful PENNANT PARK
Checks have been pouring in and reservations are rapidly being made on homesites along stately "Mathewson Drive," named after my old friend "Christy" Mathewson. BUY NOW!