Evening journal., 1915-02-09
900 season. Doom was vastly Of

GOO a season. Doom was vastly Of
Tended
While it is within the range of pos
sibiities that the Cincinnati club may
drawn enough people at the gates to
pay Wingo $1,000 next season, the
salary is vastly out of line.
If Wingo is worth $1,000, what is
Cobb worth?
Clearly four times as much as
Wingo S2S.OOO season. pro
hibitiye salary.
There must be standard of salary
regardless of what money is or is not
drawn al the gate. Extraordinary
conditions, such as huke race,
which benefited the Cardinals last
year may draw many more people at
the gate than they would have drawn
under normal conditions run OF
fine weather on good games, such as
ON holidays or Sundays, may make
difference of thousands of dollars at
the gate. Three rainy holidays viii
set club back $4,000 at the gate.
Good locations. street car service, etc,
must be considered.
Scale OF Salaries.
These are the writer's idea Of a
standard salary for major league
players:
l. Good. average regular inhelder
or Outfolder of two years establish
mcnt. tried and found competent. .26Q
10 800 hitter, from $3.50 to $3,5OO a
season
2. For exceptional men, such as
Maranville, $4,000 to $1,000 a season
3. For extraordinary men. like
/ Cobb. Wagner. Speaker. Bresnahan
( Chase. S6,5O0 to 81 800 season. with
increases or bonuses for length Of
service. etc.
Catchers
l. First-elass men like Archer.
/ 5000 season.
2 Crack men, like, Schang, after two
or three years service. $500 season
g. Average catcher. but somewhat cX
ccptional hitter, like Wingo, S45OO y sea
son.
T. Good catchcrs, but average hittcrs
! like Ansmith, Henry snyder, etc, S350C
a season, after due length OF service
Pitchers;
Good average pitcher, capable of win
ming GO per cent. Of games with a .5Ot
I per cent. club. $500 TO $4,000 after thrc,
years service.
Crack pitcher like ,endriX, Alexander
Doak, $4,000 60 5000 season.
star pitcher like Mathewson, John
sou, $500, with large increases fo
length of service, SO that man lik'
Mathewson would be drawing from
$4,000 to $4,000 a year after from ten
To- fifteen years service
There would be gradations betwcel
for men like Caldwell. who come be
tween the average pitcher. $500 an,
the really crack pitcher S45OO TO $1,000
With the argument tuat the player
draw the money and should get n
have no patience. for IL has no lounda
ton in logic or in fact
pfoiicr, great pitcher, was wit
brooklyn, which did not draw man
people in 1914.
Had PETER been with Boston. h
would have heen with team that drc'
vast crowds in lnli.
Had Boston tames hecn with Brook
ilvn he would have been with tcar
that drew poor crowds last year.
Pfeicr was Just as good q pitche
with Brooklyn as hc would have bcci
with Boston, ana was worth as much :,
himself in Brooklyn, which did not dra,
crowds, as he would have been worth Al
BOSTON. which did draw crowds
James was worth no more in Bosto
than he would have been worth il
Brooklyn which did not draw grea
crowds.
Was not Alexander worth as mucl
inPhiladelphia as he would be wortl
/ in New York
Location is what Counts.
Take the best ball club in America
and place II on Long Island or a
\ Stamford or Springfield. H., ant
d what will II draw?
Put the Giants at Montclair ant
what will they draw? Get uncivi
u gatemen, slow ticket sellers. ba'
seats, unpopular owners and sec
T. ball players will draw the money a
hi the gate"
Let newspapers agree to reduc
baseball TO its simple news value.
20O-word report Of the game wit
s. box score, and see how many poopl
the players will draw"
Start horse racing across In
. street from tho baseball parks an
watch how many people the player
e. will draw
p Players sometimes admit the trut
$ of these arguments and say, "a play
or Is worth all he can get"
+, Not at all They can get thric
81 what they arc worth now. but tina
d game can't live under present condI
TONS
So il is. The team man play
with, the money II draws. the game
u its wins or loses should have no ei
% feet upon his salary. A good playo
10 is worth as much in Cincinnati, wit
; losing team. as in New York wit
q a winner. II he is not, there cannC
be any professional baseball. Ne
e. York would have all the good player
y winner; the other towns woul
have losers and all the poor player
MhNV CIIIQe WANT