Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-16
By Monty.l


 tion of spring training trips by the big leaguers a year or so hence. The Tiger manager speaks of the intention of the ball players fraternity to ask the National and American league club owners to pay salaries to their players during the spring training trip. He says the expenses of the trip are so great already that if the clubs had to pay their men through all the time that they did duty under the manager the trips would have to be abandoned.
 Hughey is wrong. The trips will not be abandoned. no matter what may be done in the matter of train ing time pay.
 Jennings points to the fact that ball player is in the only business in the world where a man has all his expenses raid while getting into con- dition to earn his salary. He says that if w ages were compulsory during training trip then the clubs would cut out the trip. and instead insist on each player getting himself fit and be in shape to start work at the proper time the same as d man in any other line of endeaVor
 Imagine a big league team taking the field the opening day without hay ing been together at all for practice. Lovely state of affairs. Also the aver age fan can make good guess as to how well the average player would have conditioned himself if he had to do it on his own account. If half the ,oams would do this and the other the Spring trips. there would be a beautifully unbalanced pennant race.
 An order to pay the salaries during !he southern tours would not bring about any such conditions. 1t would do something entirely different. The annual earnings of each player would remain the same and the amount per month would be the only thing changed. A man who now receives $6,000 a year at the rate of $1 ,000 for each of six months. would get the same $6,000, but figured on basis oi $S57.1o for each of seven months The players would gain nothing by an agreement to pay salaries during training trips.
 But such a situation would revert io the benefit of the clubs. It would cut the number of holdouts down to a minimum. Many of these who bluff the club owners with demands for raises and then some to terms just in time to start the season or shortly before, are actuated by nothing bui 1tziness. If a player would be ill a position to lose some of his money by not reporting on time, then holdout would become almost extinct. With such possibilities to the proposition it seems as if the two leagues would be foolish if they should refuse to ac. cede to the demands of the players.
 There are practically no real hold outs in the full sense of the term men who intend absolutely to stick to the ultimatum they deliver or get out of baseball. Only two notable in stances of such holdouts can be cited off hand in the persons of Fieldel Jones and Orville Overall. The rest simply are trying to make the mag mates come across with as much as possible; if the magnate will not fali for the call. they will sign anyway Give the players the new rule HugheN Jennings opinion, to the contrary notwithstanding.
 Teams Go North This Week.
 The latter part of the week will wit ness the start of several of the big league clubs on their northward jour hey fro mthe training camps By . week later practically all of then will have begun to work their way home by slow stabes, eNhihitionins for the edification of minor leagut fans as they go This time of the year finds the fans of the South in the height of their glory It is thei only chance to see the big fellows in action and the impressions they form then have to serve as their basis for doping out the worlds series and other problems vital to the nation.
 Most of the teams having got off to flying start this season, They will return north in better shape generally. in all possibility that they have enjoyed in number of years. II the National League the Giants ant Cubs have been at it longer than an, other clubs with Philadelphia gettins under way third and Cincinnati an, Pittsburgh, the other club figuret an 1np naOuant cOntaOdorS aho,t tb