Waterbury evening Democrat., 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-
 siderab'y Reduced Salaries.

Cotham's Giants Seriously Handicapped
 by Lack of Funds--Aetiye Manage
 ment of the Cincinnati Club to be Left
 to n Committee of Three-Fresh Gossip
 of the Game.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-When the mag nates of the United League gather at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, 8 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 a gem, and that he will do his best to have it adopted at the coming meeting. The Western delegates will vote as unit in its favor. By the wise provision of the Chicago contract a player will have no opportunity to ''touch" his club for advance money. This will prove 8 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 $1 ,O0O of their salary be paid while the snow is on the ground and the active season is two or three months removed. Mir. Buck" Ewing has always asked for $1, 300 or $2, 900 in advance and has never been refused. Just how he will take to the new condition of things time alone can tell.
 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 Montgomery Ward has been in structed 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 men.
 Brouthers has liberal ideas of his own financial value as first baseman. He will insist on having big money. There is that new man at short field, young Corcoran. He will ask for $3, 300, but will probably be signed for $2, 800. Joyce has already affixed his signature to 8 Brooklyn contract. He draws big money. The outfield is a gilt-edged one, ffnan- cisily speaking. Hub Collins and Tom Burns are s, U00 men, and Mike Griffin pulled in nearly 5000 last season.
 As to the pitchers, Haddock and Lovett draw big salaries. Young Inks and Hart 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 Daly 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 CTS is handicapped by the lack of money, and the work of shaping up the team progresses slowly.
 The active management of the Cincin- nati Club affairs will be left to an eX- ecutive committee of three - Messrs. Brush, Lloyd and Ellison.
 Jack Sharrot started in like 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.
 Pittsburg's club house is to be remod- eled and the small rooms converted into one big apartment. It is charged that some of the players used one of the rooms for beer storage when the manager wasn't about last season.