Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
Players Are Signing Up and Ready to
Play Ball Again.
POINTER FOR INDEPENDENT CLUBS
Nebraska Team Managers should
See that They Are Protected
Against Outlaw or Disqualified
Players Next Summer,


time when the magnate is not In a hurry
TO sign the player So effectual is the reg
ulation of organized ball that the player in
the spring time has the one chance Of sign
ing with the club to which he has been as
signed, or to lay of for the season. The
blum of the outlaw league has been
called and the organized magnates do not
fear the threat of jumping for the very
good and all sufficient reason that there is
no place to jump to. Then the players and
the managers get together on a more BUSH
nesslike basis than ever before in the his
tory of the game. when the playing season
is over the player draws enough money on
mis- last pay to see him through the winter
and leave him tidy sum in the bank; he
usually has some employment to which he
returns and all the time he is not on the
ball field he is drawing pay for doing some
thing useful In business way. This has
ended the advance money proposition and
does away with the necessity the player
once endured OF signing as soon as the
season ended in order to get money to live
on during the winter. Just as the magnate
has come to be a hard-headed business
man the player has become a sober and
thrifty young man who saves his salary
as well as his strength. 1t is change for
the better for base ball
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word right here to the Nebraska people
who are organizing clubs for the smaller
towns or the state. 1t will be a wise plan
to get together In some sort of a league
arrangement for the protection of the
game. Many disqualified players are look
ing for employment in the independent
teams and will be signed by managers who
are not posted on the laws of the game.
RaRnlatiOpa .ria
team playing under the national agreement
can play against a team in which a dis
qualified player is engaged. Nor can a
team from an organized league play with
an Independent team that has PLAYED
against one having in it's number dis
qualified player This rule is made to pur-
sue the outlawed player to the ultimate
end and is necessary to maintain discipline
In base ball. Thus II will be essential TO
the Independent teams of Nebraska that
they fully protect themselves from the
Jumper" Many Of these independent
teams are looking forward to games with
the Western league teams during the sum-
mer, but unless the players are absolutely
free from the faint OF disqualification the
games will have to be called Off The only
way In which an independent team can be
sure that It is in good odor will be TO ar
protection, and this can best be done by
forming league, The Nebraska towns IN
terested can easily do this. Hastings
Grand Island, Kearney Fremont, Columbus
and other places where teams are to be
maintained can easily get together, frame
an organization and arrange a playing
schedule that will give them no more games
In season than they usually have and
which will ensure them the protection they
need without expense. Another advantage
to be gained by this will be the control OF
their own players, who will thus be pre-
vented from jumping from team to team
and who cannot then be grabbed by bigger
league teams II is worth the while OF
these independent teams to take this mat.
ter up for serious consideration.
II the $500 salary limit in the Western
league is lived up to. and II very likely
Will be. number OF salaries will be shaved
from what they were last season. Last
year the payroll of the Western league
teams was much nearer g. 100 than s. 4OC
ana lot Of youngsters were getting more
than they were worth. The magnates felt
the DRAIN and will try this season TO get
along with a little less expense Just as
another example Of the salary cuts that are
going on. and TO show that the Omaha
player mentioned last week as being asked
to play in one OF the big leagues for the
Z same monthly salary he got from Rourke
may feel that he Jared well. let us turn
to the case OF q Denver man who was
drafted, and who is asked to sign a con-
tract with big league club at $50 a
month less than Denver paid him. What
Is true In these Instances can be multi.
piled several times over In the country al
No hifr Lao
all around. and 1t is hardly likely that any
OF the teams. unless 1t be the Giants, will
:. have salary roll as big as It had last
y season. II the big leagues are retrenchins
In the matter of pay. II follows as a mat.
ter of course that the little ones will have
20. This isn't a very cheering prospect
for the player, but II is the natural out.
come of the inflated salaries OF the war
period, when the Western was paying Ma.
tional league salaries. The salary limit
means that in the Western league next sea
son the average pay will be s175 per month
and that where a player gets 500 or over
somebody on the team will be playing fol
less than the average.
Papa Bill Rourke Is up against It. Butct
Freese has gone on the war path and
threatens to play independent" all mex
summer. One day last week Bill asked
Butch TO come in and talk business, anc
offered him contract calling for SIS q
month more than he was paid last season
Butch looked this over, and baked; h,
said he was offered as much TO go to Ere
mont and play in a team there where h,
wouldn't be asked to work more than thre,
games week. Rourke asked him how
many games he worked a week will
Omaha, and callel his attention that las
season he was in exactly nifty games, o.
about two a week Then the Butchel
hung out for sie5 advance. Papa Bill pu
on his icy glance and said no: he woulC
give no advance money 70 anybody Ant
Butch laid down his ultimatum, no ad
vance money. no contract. And the con
tract is still unsigned
ice" Hall is reported TO have cast hi,
lot with the Ohio outlaws. He really be
longs TO the Meriden MISSY team. anS
Rourke has the next claim on him. Hal
says the Meriden team owes him none!
and that he is thus released. Ace Stewart
Who managed the Meriden team last sea
son and will run Il again this coming sum
mer. sent Hall here from the south whei
he yellow fever made II necessary to shu
down ball playing in hatIeague. Hall di'
good work for Omaha and was looked OF
With much favor by the local fans. but h,
aas since shown his fangs. He refuses {,
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