The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-02-15
BAD FOR PLAYERS
Baseball Magnates Working on
a New Contract.
WILL BE NO ADVANCE MONEY.
Brooklyn Men Will Have to Accept Con-
siderably Reduced Salaries.
WILL BE NO ADVANCE MONEY.

Gotham's Giants Seriously Handicapped
by Lack of Funds Active Manage
ment of the Cincinnati Club to be Left
TO Committee of Thrse-Fresh Gossip
of the Game.
NEW York, Feb 15-When the mag
mates of the United League gather at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, a few weeks
hence, they will devote several hours to
the consideration of the contract prob
lem.
Many forms of contract will be sub
mitted to the gentlemen who run the
game, and one of them will be adopted
as the official contract of the League
Just now the contract most in favor is
the one used by the Chicago Club last
year. This paper, stripped of its 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
new contract is gem, and that he will
do his best to have IL adopted at the
coming meeting. The Western delegates
will vote as a unit in its favor. By the
wise provision of the Chicago contract a
player will have no opportunity to
''touchn his club for advance money
This will prove a pleasant novelty for
club owners. OF course the players will
object, but this is certainly not the
players year, and their objections will
count for naught.
There are players, and their names are
many, who always insist that $500 or
81 900 of their salary be paid while the
snow is on the ground and the active
season is two or three months removed.
Mr.. "Buck' Ewing has always asked for
81, 500 or So, 900 in advance and has never
been refused. Just how he will take to
the new condition of things time alone
can tell tr
Apropos of advance money" the an
nouncement that the Brooklyn Club in
tends to make liberal cut in salaries
attracts more than passing interest.
John Mon, gomery Ward has been in
struGted "a 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
men.
Brouthers has liberal ideas of his own
financial value as a first baseman. He
will insist on having big money. There
is that new man at short field young
Corcoran. He will ask for 3,500 but
will probably be signed for So, 500. Joyce
has already affixed his signature to a
Brooklyn contract. He draws big money.
The outfield is gilt-edged one, fnan-
cially speaking. Hub Collins and Tom
Burns are $4,000 men, and Mike Griffin
pulled in nearly So, 200 last season.
AS to the pitchers, Haddock and Lovett
draw big salaries. Young Inks and Hi.rt
can be signed at reasonable terms, and
Dave Foutz. if signed at all, must con-
sent to a liberal reduction. Caruthers
will be in the same box Tom DAILY and
Con Daley will draw big money, but
Kinslow will suffer cut in his wages.
There is nothing new to chronicle in
the camp of the giants. Manager Pow
ers is handicapped by the lack of money,
and the work of shaping up the team
progresses slowly. .....
The active management Of the Cincin-
natl Club affairs will be left to an ex-
ecutive committee of three - Messrs
Brush, Lloyd and Ellison.
Jack Sharrot started in like a cyclone
last season, but his arm snapped, and the
Giants, who had led the League, dropped
down, down, down. Now they say that
Sharrot is all ready to jump in and dupli-
cate his good work.
Pttsburg's club house is to be remod-
eled and the small rooms converted into
one big apartment 1t is charged that
some of the players used one of the rooms
for beer storage when the manager
wasn't about last season.