Evening journal., 1913-01-04
TRI-STATE
SLASHES
SALARIES
Club Figure $1,000 and Indi-
viduaI Limit at $3.50
This Year
GOOD TEAM FOR CITY
DESPITE The REDUCTION

Contrary to expectation, the Tri-
State League i'm annual meeting at
/ Harrisburg yesterday reduced the
club salary limit from $1,000 TO $1,000.
! Coincident with this cut came one in
+ the individual salary limit OF from
! Si75 to $3.50 month and all because
Chester and Reading had threatened
TO drop out of the League unless salary
slashes were made. Owners OF the
! two franchises argued that under the
best of conditions In their towns they
could not hope to mako much money
out of the game this year and This
being true they wanted a lower salary
/ limit Wilmington. which had pre-
previously gone on record for lower
salaries i'm the league, halked on the
big cut made W. S. Tunis, who owns
tho Harrisburg champions also balk-
ed, arguing that ne expected to have
/ trouble signing any Of his old cham
pions at the reduced figure He thought
an $500 club limit enough. Reading
/ however favored a team limit at $1,000
! II necessary. The $1,000 figure was
agreed ON as a compromise.
OF course the reduction will cause
/ howl among the players in the lea
que and il Is not likely that the hold
out" class will be greater than ever.
Tony Marhefka, the only Chick player
who mingled with the team owners,
managers and sporting writers fol-
lowing the meeting declared that he
would not play baseball for $3.50 a
month George Cockill manager of
the Harrisburg team condemned the
salary change from the view point of
playing manager and did not hesi-
/ tate to say that the reduction might
/ have a tendency to lower the quality
OF Tri-Statc ball President Carpen-
ter and the franchise owners how
ever, were more optimistic.
They did not believe the players
will balk over the salary cut Thorn
as NJ Brown promised Wilmington
a fast team despite the reduction.
II was decided to start the season
April 30 and close September 3. each
team to play ll2 games President
! Carpenter was empowered TO arrange
schedule and report a; meeting 10
be held at Philadelphia February 3,
the date OF the annual dinner Of the
! Philadelphia Sporting Writers Asso-
ciouon
/ A new board OF directors was cleo
! ted. Thomas NJ Brown, Wilmington;
! William S. Tunis. HARRISBURG; A. II.
Balliett, Allentown; ] II. Myers, At
/ lantic City The retiring directors
are. H. Kister Free. York, and Jas
Let's, Trenton
The Board Of Directors met pre-
vious TO the annual session of the
league and took mp the claim Of
George Washington Heckert against
Trenton for $1,000 back salary, which
was disallowed The action of the di-
rectors was subsequently approved by
the league and Manager Heckert gave
notice that he would appeal his case
10 the National Commissioners.
HECkERT CLAIM REFUSED.
Manager Heckert says there Is
about $500 In real cash due him for
his services That he received but
$3.50 during the entire season The
claim that he was part owner and
entitled 10 share "A certain amount OF
the losses of the Trenton team Is not
denied by Manager Heckert. but he
claims that with what he owes as his
part OF the deficiency amounts TO but
$500 and that the $500 held back to
cover a part due on a note is il
legal
The pennant for the season Of 1912
was formally awarded 10 Harrisburg
and a request from Atlantic City TO so
arrange the schedule as to allow the
team from that city TO play away
from home during May and a part of
June was left with President Car
penter, who will PREPARE two sched-
ules and submit them to the Board
of Directors for approval
The representatives present were.
Trenton, James Let's. w. J. Norris:
Reading, Burt Leopold and Jake
Weitzel; York n. Kaistor Free:
Atlantic City, John II. Myers: VIII
mington, Thomas NJ Brown and p. r.
Cassidy Chester. James Hamilton
and James Messick Allentown. Id.
A. B. Balliett. and Harrisburg. w. S.
Tunis.
There were a number Of managers
and players present, including Jack
Dunn of Baltimore; George CockiIl.
Harrisburg; George w. Heckert.
YORK; Johnny Castle, Atlantic City:
Buck Ramsey. manager OF tho An.
derson, ). c. Club; Tony Marhefka.
Wilmington. Del; AL. Newman. At
lantic City; Red" Owens. of the
Anderson 5 G.. Club: Lew Ritter
manager Of the Elmira. n. Y. Club.
Jake Weitzel, Of Reading announc-
ed that he was still hunting for a
manager and that the club would
play its games al Lauer's Park. Ches-
ter also wants a leader. Trenton will
take up the question of manager
early next week.
Announcement was made that three
umpires had been selected Thomas
T Walker. member of the 1912 stan
Patrick Craven, OF Williamstown. who
had been acting i'm Independent
leagues. and Patrick Gribben, SYRIA
cuse.