Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-17
FANCY SALARIES ARE
 AT BOTTOM OF BASE
 BALL TROUBLES TODAY
Some Players Do Not Figure How Others Are Getting Such Large
 Checks; FederalS May Throw Bombs Into Organized Ranks.

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 Bombs Into Organized Ranks. NEW YORK, June 16-To the man atop the and 10" tower 1t begins to look as though the fat salaries that are being paid to some of the star | ball players this season are sure to prove @ good thing-for the stars who are drawing down the bales of kale
 But it seems to be a fact beyond dispute that in more than one in- stance the high-priced players are not delivering a brand of goods common. surate with the salary that is slip ped them twice a month An appre, citation of this fact naturally tends to create more or less dissatisfaction among other players On the team.
 After all, ball players are some. thing on the order of human beings, though they may be called "bone. heads" a million or more times a year Now what these tossers are trying to fight out is, why in the name of Adian A. is one player paid double the money received by any other man on the team, when there are half a dozen men in the same lineup who are l playing as good if not better ball than the high-prlsed man. Big leag uers seldom begrudge a brother play CT a fancy salary, but they believe that the big money in the game today should be distributed a little more esuitably
 With three big leagues competing for the best talent and one of these l leagues outside of organized baseball, the salary question has become about the most important issue in the ma. tional pastime.
 The efforts of the Federal league to sign the star players are at the root of the high salary problem. The Feds have given evidence of possess ing a large bank roll and they seem willing to slip the rubber band when ever the service of an 18K pastimer are at stake.
 This readiness on the part of the Federal league moguls to give up large gobs of perfectly good money is likely to be the magnet that win at- tract many National and American league players next year. particularly those players who failed to get in on the big money this season.
 As both the National and American leagues have been forced to boost sal aries in figures never dreamed Of a dozen years ago. while the attend ance figures so far this season have been anything but startling it is diff fcult to figure out how the two older organizations can pay their players more money and continue to run their baseball plants at a profit Neverthe- Hess the magnates seem tagged to stand the rifle" for a slant at the game from any angle shows that the player is in a position to demand tur- key, gravy and an the trimmings.
 Not since the days of 'Cy" Young and Young Cy" Young have two pitchers of the same name attracted so much attention as has been bes- slowed by the fans recently on the pair |of Johnsons-Walter and A. Rankin Being in the same league the two Johnsons have to face one another occasionally. This they have done on 1 three occasions so far this season, and A. Rankin Johnson, the Red Sox youngster, has scored a victory over the great Washington finger in two of the three combats. Some perform lance for rookie.
 Every fan in the land is well ac- quainted with Walter Johnson's won Iderful career on the diamond On the other hand. A Rankin Johnson. al- though getting away to a good start, has yet to win his spurs as a star Iflinger in the big yard
 Young Johnson was obtained by the Boston Red Sox last fall from the ! Syracuse club of the New York State league Before he joined syr. iacuse Johnson had been tried out by the st. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles and the Newark team. With none of these clubs was his work of a brilliant character.
 He drifted to the Syracuse club last season and there he first gave evl, dence of the real stuff that was in him. While pitching for Syracuse he defeated both the Red Sox and the New York Giants in exhibition games. This feat prompted the Red sox man agement to purchase his release at fancy price.
 Johnson halls from Marble Falls, Texas. He neither drinks nor smokes