The Sentinel=record., 1911-02-16
$5O0,0OO IN
 ADVERTISING
BASEBALL MAKER PAYS HALF A MILLION CASH FOR LEAGUE
 RECOGNITION.
In Addition to Cash Payment for the Privilege of Twenty-Year Con- tract, Also Furnishes All Base
 Balls Used by League.

New York, Feb. 15.-For a bonus said on good authority to be $500, ,000, the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, in session here, today made a twenty-year contract with prominent sporting goods firm to use baseball of its manufacture for the official league baseball 1t is the same ball that has been used by the Ma tional League for the last gixteen years and in adopting it again the magnates rejected an offer of Gin Icinnati firm said to have been $325,- 900 in twenty annual installments of Sl6,250. of which half was to be in cash and half in baseballs supplied.
 Heretofore 1t had been commonly supposed even among the players that the big leagues paid about 97 cents apiece for balls which sell at retail lat $1.25. But the developments of to- day snow that they not only pay noth- ing, but receive all the balls they use free and a very considerable sum in cash besides. The exact terms of the contract were not disclosed, but it is understood to have been a cash offer, accompanied by a $5o0,0O0 certified check and "all the balls the eight clubs could use in playing champion- ship games
 The ball in question is made in Chi cago, and the contract commences vita the season of 1912.
 The league schedule was adopted today without change and the sched- ule already prepared and sent out stands for the season. This shows that all of the clubs will travel grand total of S9,733 miles during the sea son. The Chicago Club gets the worst of the schedule. according to baseball men. The club must travel 14.579 miles. and has nine conflicting dates. It is the only club which conflicts, but all except one are on Sundays and the exception on Saturday Presi dent Murphy, of the Chicago Club. is said to have protested on number 6f features of the schedule, but he was overruled.
 The club mileage for the season, ac- cording to the schedule, will be as fol lows:
 Boston, 11.224 miles; Brooklyn g. S97 miles; New York. 1O,574 miles; Philadelphia. S,426 miles Pittsburg, 13,590 miles; Cincinnati. 10,S62 miles: Chicago, 14,579 miles, and St. Louis. II ,0S1 miles.
 There are but two scheduled double headers-both in Boston. One was made necessary to avoid an extra trip of the Brooklyn Club to Boston, and the other to avoid conflict. None Of the Eastern clubs play two series in succession with the same club. This will do away with weak club being pitted against a strong club for long stretch of games. In the West the sue cession of dates occurs four times. but it is limited to seven games in one stretch and six games in the other three cases.
 Each Eastern club has two Satur- days and two Sundays in the West This new feature was worked out by Mir. Dreyfus. Under this plan, in the trips east and west, the Saturdays and Sundays rotate in regular order and the visiting club does not appear the second time except after the other three clubs nave played.
 The salary of President Thomas J. Lynch was increased from ss,ooo to s10,000 year.