The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-21
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BASEBALL SALARIES.
Players in American League all Paid
Well.
(ChicagO JOurnal.)

Chicago JOurnal)
Baseball viii have the greatest boom
of its career to come. That much can
be regarded as safety certain. The
fans viii turn out en- masse and the
natural curiosity to see the two hostile
leagues in action and to make COM
parsons will insure fat gates for both
sides-fOr awhile. Then the tail-enders
will begin to develop, and viii begin
to lose mOney. a double circuit of six
teen clubs viii pay good dividends TO
all sixteen if they could all be one-two-
three in the race. AS they can't, half
of the teams in both organizations will
lose money, anyhow, and conflicting
schedules may make six in each league
fall behind.
Before the American league enters on
it's gay career it might be we'll Tor its
projectors to pause. look over their
team lists, and see how much money
they are obliging themselves to pay
in the way of salaries. Fifty-cent ball
is different from %. The National
league teams were hard pressed To
make money at 50 cents WITH their sal
aries, and the modest mathematician
may wonder how the American, adopt
ing The same scale of salaries, is going
to do it at a quarter admission. Going
over the probable salary lists of the
American league teams, the financial
puzzle seems almost a gigantic one.
The new Baltimore club will get out
of it on actual salaries cheap, for the
simple reason that the two highest
priced men in the lot, McGraw and
Robinson are owners now and will
have to get theirs from the receipts,
thus standing for a loss if the money
falls behind the expenses. FOutz, the
young first baseman; Harris, the short
stop, and two or three others, will draw
but little money; Reitz and Brodie will
get probably 81, 200 each. McGinnity
is down for $500, and Howell for
SLIGO. The whole salary list Of the
Baltimore club will not run over $40, 600.
If McGraw and Robinson had to be
paid, it would approximate $4,000.
Somers' Bostons are no stronger than
McGraw's team, but will cost more
money. Collins will get s., 800. Criger.
Dineen and Stahl are on the roll for at
least $500 each. Freeman, SChreken-
COST and HemPhill will cost $4,000
apiece Ferris, Parent, DOlan and Dan
Murphy are to get about 81, $50 each.
The team will run up to about S29, 600
more than Brush gave his Cincinnati
Reds last year.
Comiskey will have to deal out quite
a pot of money, but will have a splen-
did team. He will have to give up
81, 500 each to Griffith Padden. Held
rick and WalIace-more rather than
less; Sullivan and Hoy will get 81 900,
Patterson, Denzer. Fisher, Wood, Isbell
Hartman, Shugart and Mcfarland can
be Jumped at $1,000 each. Commy's nine
will cost him about $25,00O or $1,000
more than his last years salary list
stood him UP for.
Detroit will have pretty much it's old
team, and, if it gets Barrett, will give
that player $1,000 and $1,000 for Scott.
Jim Burns gang viii draw about S22.-
600, so that the Detroit magnate viii
get out comparatively easy.
Down at Cleveland much is conjec-
ture. Bradley, if Somers gets him. will
get g 400. With Bradley in the Cleve-
land club is stuck to pay about $22 OOO
which is no small burden for the Ohio
town.
The new Philadelphia team will have
to fish up the funds for fair. Lajoie
will get SO. 500. Mcfarland is it, for
$500. Mercer will cost $4,000. Lave
Cross Will get $1,000. Willis will cost
81, $50 Flick will get So, 600. The new
Quaker team will cost Connie Mack
SSl, 900 easy, and competition right at
home to be encountered.
Duffy's Milwaukee bunch will have
to give up plenty to Taylor and Gar
vim. None of the others. save Duffy
himself, Will get much money The
Milwaukee salary list will be about
SZ4,OOO, and that is surely as much as
the Beer city can afford to pay.
Manning, at Washington, must paw
Carrick $500, Bill Clarke the same.
Slagie 81. 400. Gettman 81, 800, and Ever
EFT, the captain, $4,000. His salaries wi
total UP about $4,000 on the season
II more National league players jump
the salary bills will be increased pro-
portionately. AS it is. the eight clubs
are down for salaries accounting to
S2O3, 900. At % cents, that means So, 900
people must see the American league
games to even pay the players to say
nothing of the cost of the new grounds,
travelling expenses, pay of umpires,
price of balls, home plates and benches
pay of secretaries, groundkeepers and
employees, advertising and d hundred
minor bills. Can the new league get
away with it? On the cold logic of fig
ures it looks as if they would have
trouble in the effort.