The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-10
BASEBALL FAN WORKS
THREE HOURS A DAY
Champion Enthusiast Keeps
Daily Records of $4,000
Players in All Leagues.
PIRATES sPENDTHRIFTs
Barney Dreyfuss Pays Out
More Money Than Any
Other Manager.
BY MANHATTAN.

BY Leased Wire Ia The Tribune.
NEW YORK. Dec o-There are cham
pions In all branches OF baseball, and the
latest is the champion baseball fan. lie
Is J. j. Lawres OF Milwaukee. He has
the records OF 1 600 baseball players, II
takes him three hours each day 10 Keep
the records up TO date. One may ASK
Lanres any question in reference to base
ball for the past seventeen years. and he
can give the Information, He has forty
two volumes OF statistics on baseball.
The Plttsburg club IN 1911 spent more
money for ball players than any other
two clubs, The outlay OF escn club in
the major leagues we're az follows: Ma
tIonai-Pit,sburg $4,000; Boston. $3.50;
BROOKLYN. S1s.9S0; Philadelphia. ssaaoi
st. Louis. $3.50; Cincinnati. saisoo. New
York, so, ,150: Chicago. $4,000. Aueri-
cau--Chicago. s25.7so: ST, Louis, sli.4eo;
Philadelphia. $3.50; Detroit. $3.50;
Cleveland. s20,S5o; Washington. siS:9oo;
New York $4,000; Boston. s25.Soo,
Baseball i'm tub IS going u he the
big thing on the Pacific coast. The base
bali subject is getting so hot that a game
rs being arranged between oil men from
bakersfield and Kern river districts. They
are going 10 play, against each other In
a 400, 900 arrcl oil reservoir.
"A perfect bat has never been made
and never viii he" says Hans Wagner.
II have had bats break when ] met the
faithful service. and .grounder would
trickle 10 inhelder when th" force 7
put into my swing was enough FOR n
three base hit The nearest perfect, bat
small Kentucky town, where once
PLAYED In an eShibi!ion game; gave the
club uscd the bat The nrs, day got it
and We made twenty eight hits"
No Cut in Majors.
Agitation 20 cut salaries OF ball pias
applies only to those holding positions
in the minor leagues. The major league
contingent will not be affected IN any way
by this movement. for the reason that
there Is no occasion for such a reduct ion.
Major league bali has been mos; profit
able in recent years and the game has
not been hurt. but benefited hy tho fact
that some players draw enormous sal
aries.
The hest source OF advertisement that
q club ran receive Is 10 have II know,
that 81 has been forced TO pay n prlurciy
SALARY 20 some player As n general rule
tho public is With the players In the
stand for high salaries. and whenever q
piaTer draws thousand or moro a
month he immediately becomes an at
traction, Major league salaries have gone
skywsrd in lats years 6 6ut have mo, not out
nately for the minor leagues, their sal
aries, too. have heen raised whole lot.
but the attendance has not improved ma
| terlnlly and that IL the rub
New York will hold the center OF the
| baseball stage next weak. as all the mag
mates, nearly all the managers and hope
| to- he managers and many OF the players
| will be on hand for the annual me eetlngs
| OF the big leaguee which begin Monday
and will last practically all the week
The question OF widest general interest
| to be passed upon Is the creation OF the
class IA leagues, including the Eastern
| lean association. II VIII be remembered
( that ~ the recent meeting ~ the minor
leagues at san Antonio this new class
| was agreed upon.
! There seems TO be a general impr~s =
sion that the San Antonio action ere
| ates the IA class. This IL not so.
| To make the action operative the ma
tional agreement must he changed. There