The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-02
ness. are enjoying wnyt of financial

ness. are enjoying wavs of financial
prosperity that is rnprecedAnte In the his
tory Of the national game There are play
work. are receiving salaries that are far II
excess Of those paid to many public Of
ticers, college professors, ana educated mel
like Keller. Chesbro Tannehill. Mathewson
Wagner. Fred Clarke. Collins Griffith. Cy
Young. Bill Donovan, Kelley, Crawford anl
annually. The majority Dr. the clubs ir
both the American and National league.
% and ons N two aP
reach The $4,000 mark. There are many
along under salary rolls amounting to So t
eco. all Of which demonstrates the keen.
h OF the war s for tina,
It is considered that few Of the great box
men oficiate. in more than lforty games in
| the course of q season. On that basis the
management of the local American League
team pays Chesbr close to 5000 for each
on the rubber. The star pitcher Of TO-DAY s.h
| who is asked to t~irl more than two games
| week, or over forty-fve games during tho
| entire season. sets up great howl and
imagines he is much-abused Individual.
The unprecedented popularity that the
game is enjoying at the present time seen
In the enormous crowds that daily pass
through the turnstiles at the various ball
parks. alone makes such munlfcent solaries
possible. but even with the big crowds there
are number Of clubs that are said to be
In bad way financially. The wise players
1 are taking advantage OF the present pros
| perity and saving the money In anticipa-
| ton OF the cut that is sure to come. To
try to continue the present scale of salaries
| would be suicidal for many of the big
league clubs. and nobody realizes this fact
more than does the player There are sew
eral star players in the big leagues who
are more than comfortably well to do
These men are not worrying over the pro-
se.er snd s IF the m
ent IS drawing over .9Se5 for MIS- his s Sc s
list and 18th Of every Eve 'li month I'm getting
SO stingy now that hate to even pay
laundry bills. The time. will come. and I
when there won't be a ball player In the
business who will be getting over $500
year. and he'll have to have bells on hif
this is their harvest is shown by the large
number who are sailing their long. green
for rainy day: I can name a hundred Of
them who can show their bank accounts IN
five figures"
Frank Donahue. who left the st. Louis
Browns in huff because he was fined 500
by Manager McAleer has signed as cap
tain-manager OF the Morristown. Pa. indie
pendent team.
Manager Barrow of the Tigers. cannot
get over his laundering for a left-hand pitch
or, and is still dickering for one. according
to advices from Chicago. Some oflrthe,
baseball writer's of that town assertatb,
Barrow has offered Kitson. who has pitched
good ball, but has been unfortunate. and
Courtney, who played only long enough to
become recognized member of the team.
for White. Comiskeys best offsde per
to give any service this season worthy of
mention. but will be drawing salary all the
year, and as White Is certainly as valuable
row was not giving himself any the worst
of the diclser. 1t is also easily guessed that
there Is little chance that Comiskey Will
hurry to close the deal
II anybody thinks that McGraw John r.
Brush or the team itself is Indifferent where
the club stands. he is sleep-waIking. The
likelihood Of seeing Chicago. team that
e far t ana ne obsr s hady
Injured supersede New York on the list
makes all hands fairly sick, 1t IL not so
Mr.. Brush can easily stand a slump In re-
ccipts. but the humiliation OF taking a back
seat with team that few weeks ago
II you ask McGraw. which everybody
who knows him does inquire, What is tho
matter with the Giants?' he will give little
satisfaction. Early In the season he re-
fused TO prophesy where his club would
end, and no more does he now care to pre-
dict.
He will tell you that the Western teams
are playing 80 per cent better ball than our
Ing June or May. while New York and
Pittsburg have let up in their speed He
a bad period when, each man appears to do
worse than the other.
Even the old Baltimore champions were
prone to fall down once In awhile, but that
aggregation were such fighters that they
would not allow themselves to go stale for
any length of time. The club known az
Giants. made up OF old Baltimore stock
McGinntty. McGann, Cronin, McGraw and
Bresnahan-salted with the best New York
had to ner-Bowerman, Mathewson, Tay-
original spirit. but lacks the ability.
McGrnw counted this year upon having
Elberfeld. Delehanty and Davis, COM
bination. backed by the Giants great pitch
ing stan, that would have shown IA clean
pair Of heels to anything In the National
League. 1t was n ctnch that New York
would win pernant.
At Cincinnati. however. where Tho mag
mates pow-wowed and the National League
backed water. the whole programme fell
through. 80
This left McGraw In desperate straits.
ager strengthening his own team at the
expense Of another. The only way To net
men Y 70 watch for the expiration OF con-
tracts an1 releases o. aconr the minor
Mctiraw succeeded IN landing Mertes, who \
had Just finished with the Chicago Amer.
tcanSs Browne, released from Philadelphia,
Warner Of Boston and Babb OF lndianapo-