The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-10
NEWTON FISHER ON
 THE SALARY LIST Nashville MoguI Waxes Warm in Interview in Memphis WANTS TO GET IN COURTS Sudden Righteous Fit Concerning Sal ary Limit Strikes Dear Newt
 Between Eyes-Ee Gives
 Some Data.
WANTS TO GET IN COURTS
The News-scimitar says:

The -Scimitar says:
 How Southern league clubs are lined
 up on the salary question, according to
 the count of Newt Fisher:
 For Enforcement N ashville, Little
 Rock, Shreveport, Montgomery.
 Against Enforcement-Mem New Orleans, Atlanta, Birmingham. "The salary question will be carried to
 the courts,' said Newt Fisher yesterday
 afternoon when he was in Memphis on
 his way from Nashville to Shreveport to
 attend the meeting of the schedule com
 mittee.
 southern league players will be re- qured to go before notary public and
 swear to the salary they are receiving If they do not tell the truth, and we can
 prove it, they will be arrested for per
 jury and given the limit if we can make them get 1t. 1 personally will help in
 the prosecution of the men, provided it Is
 necessary.
 'If the players tell the truth, 1t is go- ing to be easy to prove that Memphis
 and New Orleans are going beyond the salary limit. When we prove this there
 will be trouble,'' added ianager Fisher sententiously.
 Watching Duffy. onS illdll Wt dIt WdlCllilB IS lIullJ signed by Memphis. Duffy is getting ex-
 actly s35O month. This statement may l seem extravagant, but in my grip at the hotel l have evidence to prove it, and | this evidence will be put before the sched- ule committee at Shreveport and also be- fore the next meeting of the league. No team can pay $350 for one man and keep a team inside the salary limit. Ten
 men at that price would make the team cost $3500.
 q offered Duffy $2OO myself, and he laughed at me. Then Buckenburger of Boston offered him $25O, and Duffy sent proof that he was offered sS5O q month to play with Memphis. That was more even
 than the Boston team could afford, and
 Memphis got the man.
 Now I want to know what Duffy is going to say when he is put under oath and asked what his salary Is. He'll have l to tell the truth, though, or go to jail for
 perjury.
 Must Swear to Salary. | President Kavanaugh is with us in 1 the fight for the enforcement of the sal ary limit. And he Is going to do his
 part. When the Southern league teams come to Little Rock he Will see that every | member goes before a notary public and | swears to his salary. If a player swears | that he Is getting less than he really is we will fix him for swearing falsely If I he swears that he is getting less than | his manager says he is. then we will make
 the manager give him up. In that way
 l believe that we are going to force those people in this league who do not care for
 expense to walk the chalk mark.
 This fight Is one for selt-preservation
 and 1t Is to the limit. When 1t is all over | somebody In the league is going to know that there has ben a knockout Of | course I expect to get the worst of it in
 the first few rounds, but I am going to | win out. With Nashville in her stand for
 the enforcement of the salary limit will
 be Little Rock, Shreveport and Montgom- | cry. Against these teams will be Mem phis, New Orleans. Atlanta and Pirm-
 ingham. But we will have President Kay | anaugh, and that will give us a ma- l jority when any matter comes to a vote 1 T am club owner. and this business I Is bread and butter to me-" said MT. | Fisher Some of the managers are backed by lot of sportsmen who want | to see their team win, and do not care
 hang about the expense We'll. these
 men will break up the lague unless some- thing Is done to keep them from 1t. Pay More Than Big Leagues. Take the case of Duffy again That man Is making more in the Southern | league than he could in the big leagues. He proved that by accepting an offer | from Memphis and refusing one from | Boston. Well, how long do you suppose | we can last in a league like the South ern if we keep on paying big league salaries?
 q am fighting to protect the league. Of course by doing so I am protecting my l self; but I am not worrying entirely about myself. l have a little something salted away. and it is likely to be some | time befor I go to the poorhouse; but was born and brought up in the south. and have seen several leagues go to the wall here because the teams did not abide by the salary limit. We have the