The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-17

New YoRH, Feb. l6.-When the sleek
and prosperous magnates OF tho United
League gather at tho Fifth Avenue
hotel a few weeks hence, they will dc.
vote several hours OF their more or less
valuable time to the consideration OF
the contract problem.
Many forms Of contract will be sub.
mitted to tho worthy gentlemen who
run the game, and one OF them will be
adopted as the official contract OF the
league. Just now tho contract most In
favor Is the one used by tho Chicago
club last year. This paper, stripped Of
It's legal dressing, calls for twelve
monthly salary days in every year. In
other words, the player receives his
princely stipend in twelve, instead OF
seven divisions.
Jim Hart, OF Chicago, says that the
now contract is n gem, and that he will
do his best TO have 1t adopted at the
coming meeting. The western delegates
will vote as n unit in its favor. by the
wise provision OF tho Chicago contract
n player will have nc opportunity to
"touchn his club for advance money.
This will prove q pleasant novelty for
the club owners. OF course the players
will object, but this is certainly not the
players year, and their objections will
count for naught.
There arc players, and their names
arc many, who always insist that $500
or $1,000 Of their salary be paid while
the snow is on the ground and the act
i've season is two or three months re-
moved. That celebrated cripple, Mr..
Buck Ewing, has always asked for 81 900
or $1,000 in advance, and has never
been refused. Just how ho will takerto
the new condition Of things time alone
can tell.
Apropos OF advance money" tho
announcement that the Brooklyn club
intends to make a liberal cut in salaries
attracts more than passing interest.
John Montgomery Ward has been in
structcd to sign his stars and to sign
them cheap. He will find it no easy
task. In the first place, the new Brook
lyn team is made up OF high-salaried
mon. Brouthers has liberal ideas of his
own financial value as 4 first baseman
lie will insist on having big money.
There Is that new man at short field,
young Corcoran. He will ask for $500,
but will probably be signed for $500.
Joyce has already affixed his signature
to a Brooklyn contract. He draws big
money. The out field is a gilt edged
one, financially speaking. Hub Collins
and Tom Burns are $1,000 men, and
Mike Griffin pulled in nearly 5000 last
season.
As TO the pitchers. Haddock and
Lovott draw big salaries. Young Inks
and Hart can be signed at reasonable
terms, and Dave Foutz, if signed at all,
must consent to a considerable reduc-
ton. Caruthers will be in the same
box. Tom DAILY and Con Daley will
draw big money, but kinslow will suffer
q cut in his wages.
There is nothing new to chronicle in
the camp OF the Giants. Manager
{, Powers is handicapped by the lack OF
money, and the work OF shaping up"
the team progresses slowly.
The active management OF tho Cincin-
natl club affairs will be left to an execu-
tive committee Of three-Messrs. Brush,
Lloyd and Ellison.
Jack Sharrot started in like q cyclone
last season, but his arm snapped, and
the Giants. who had led the league,
dropped down, down, down. Now they
say sharrot is all ready to jump in and
duplicate his good work.
Pittsburgh's club house is to be re.
modelled and the small rooms converted
into II big apartment. 1t is charged
that some OF the players used one OF the
rooms for beer storage when the man
agcr wasn't about last season.