Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-24
UNION TO ASK FOR
A D|SPFNSATION
ON SALARY LIMIT
Claimed That League Can
not Be Operated on Limit
Fixed at the Milwaukee
Meeting.


Telegram. Salt Lake. uses some very
tart language in commenting on the
baseball situation that confronts the
fans in the Union association and the
action taken by the national commits
sion in lowering the class d league sal
airy limit. Boise fans will be interest
ed in Bratz's view of the matter. He
says:
When the minor league magnates at
Milwaukee adopted a uniform salary
limit for the little fellows and then
made arrangements to insist upon the
enforcement thereof under penalty to
offending player and manager alike,
they did good turn for minor league
baseball, Because the salary question
embodies the life OF the smaller
leagues, but when they forced limit
of $1,000 upon class d leagues, which
includes the Union association, they
worked hardship upon this little cir
cult.
First of all, 1t may be argued that
the Union has no holler coming since 1t
saw fit to be the only minor league in
the country which did not have a rep
resentative at the session and it Is
pretty hard to get around that fact
The fact remains. however, that the
Union will have to obtain a special
ruling with privilege to increase that
limit or it will have to seek class c
or B rating, either by application or by
adding two more cities to the circuit.
Fifteen hundred dollars was the
original rating Of this league, but that
!, was found too small, so 1t was in
creased to $3.50. The Union is stu
ated about in the same boat as the
Northwestern, which obtained permits.
| sion to use $1,000 per month above the
class B limit of $4,000.
If the Union association starts the
season of 1913, special dispensation
should be secured allowing the clubs
an increase over and above the regular
class d limit, or baseball hereabout!
will meet a tragic finish.
Coming right down to cold facts. the
| Union fans would not stand for class
d ball with $1,000 salary limit If such
a restriction were rigidly enforced
Perjured affidavits, loudly limited al
| during the seasons of 1911 and 1912
would be necessary. With $3.50 sal
airy limit last season. practically every
! team in the league failed to remain
inside this amount. Every club has re-
served its players and to get inside g
| $1,000 limit would necessitate the sign
ing of reserved players at about one.
half their 1912 salaries. Would thu
players stand for It? Would 1t be pos.
sible to sign ~ such men as Perrine
Devereaux, Bauer, Huelsman, Murph.
| or any others for that matter at $10t
a month for five months season
Not on your life.
There are many reasons why the
Union should be allowed at least $500 ,
month increase. The great big rea-
son Is that the Union association is
about the only organization of its kind
in the country that has been able tc
games, and the other is that the circuit
lacks but a few Inhabitants of being
eligible to class c rating. If tive
more towns are added. as is limited or
some sides, class B rating will b.
within reach, and it would settle mat
tiers, but as 1t is. $1,000 would prove
to be a huge Joke.
| If $500 a month were added to the
Union association limit and then the
baseball powers assisted the Unions
president in enforcing this limit tc
the penny, what a fine little league II
would be. Seventeen hundred dollars
a month would not have proven suf-
ficient to several of the clubs in thu
league last season, but II the minor
league officials will see to 1t that these
violators are compelled to live up t.
the same limit adhered to by the
others, they will have supplied q. Ions
felt want In organized minor league
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