The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-06
TO CUT SALARIES
Western League Magnates
Chop Salary of Players.
Unusual Crop of Holdouts VIII
Likely Be Result.
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GRADUATES MAKING GOOI
Kansas Leagues Turn Out Some
Classy Ball Players.
Bill HorreII Becomes First Base
Candidate for 500.

1t is not betraying any confidence
to state that salaries in the Western
league will not nearly approach the
figure they totalled last season. The
magnates have decided they were
spending too much money. And they
were. Glass A ball clubs with a salary
list of $4,000 per month not the
paying proposition they should be. In
some cases the salaries ran to $4,000
per month. This year the ma gnates
decided to prune the salaries paid to
the various players and the unusual
crop of holdouts is the result 1t may
cause some trouble this year, bua. in
season or two the players will be
accustomed to reasonable pay for
their pastiming, rather than high class
salaries for sometimes mediocre work.
Last year the local club had a salary
outlay, part of the time of $4,000 per
month Gear says he will reduce that
amount this year and give the town a
better ball club. He has made the
managers believe that he can do it
Gear anticipates few holdOuts. One
thing, he will not try to force any play
er to come here. He doesn't work on
that theory. Wichita and DeS MOineS
seem to have the most holdouts al
ready counted. The Wichita players
are offered less salary and some trou
BILE might have been expected. But
that the men who represented DeS
Moines in the race last year should
object to anything is almost past IN
Outstanding.
The Manhattan baseball promoters
have purchased the Clay Center team
and franchise in the new Kansas !
league and Manhattan fans are might |
lily pleased as a result. The Clay Cen |
ter aggregation were trouble makers |
all last year, finishing in second place.
Pueblo has decided to bring suit |
against ISbelI- Pueblo is at least en- !
titled to this diversion, but it may re- |
kIllt in more money being eXD6nO- /
ed without the return of the bali club |
Magin has announced that Lincoln |
will get back Hagerman, Stratton and |
Mccormick. These three players we're
hardly sold Instead they were used |
as security for loan made to Despair |
by MagilI. The sale was merely to |
cover Magil in case Despair hit ad- |
ditional financial trouble.
The Lincoln Evening News calls at
tention to the fact that Western !
league magnates pull off few trades
among themselves. Is this ali indica
ton of fear. baseball knowledge. good /
or bad players or something else.
George Graham has joined the
holdouts. The crop this spring is ex
pected to be large. But warm weather |
always kills the crop and the ball |
players rush in where before they de- |
clined to tread.
Bill Horrell of Salina, with the Lin
coin club late last year has signed |
Sioux City contract. Bill got his
start with the Central Kansas league, |
playing with the Salina club and 9TH
ers. He has played some good ball. |
Bill isn't a bad first sacker by any |
means and has many traits in common |
with Spencer Arthur Abbott. Under |
the right kind of management Horrell |
will make the Sioux a fairly clever /
first sacker. He is well known to a
number of fans here and the writer |
has seen William play some pretty |
good ball If he wants to stick with |
the 500 tribe he can likely do it. But
it's up to Bill
There are a number Of Kansas and |
Central Kansas league players in the |
Western league now. Scarcely team |
is without some representative of the |
loss rapid baseball organizations here. |
And the leagues are only a few years |
old. The rise of the youngsters shows i
what a lot of good base ball timber was !
going to waste before the organiza- |
tions secured and developed them. I
Some of the players are already In |
big league company. others are go |
ing to be soon. And most of them |
viii stick.
Jack Holland has a number of grad !
yates of the defunct Kansas State
League which he expects to develop dur
ing the coming season. Among them is
P1tcner w nSattey WHO comes from Great
Bend. This yongster performed mir
acles in the short grass country last
year. He was taken on by Holland
through the dope of a sport writer.
The Lincoln Star doesn't understand
WHY Taft looks further for a campaign
manager when Johnnie Mack is only
q few hours ride from the capital
Des Moines has secured the services
of Catcher Allen who is the property OF
the Chicago White SoX. This is the