The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-03-16
Salaries
WILL Be SHADED
NOT MORE THAN ii DOZEN BALL
PLAYERS WORTH MORE
THAN $1,000 Al YEAR.

Ry Il. B. BEAsLEY.

Who are worth better than $4,000
d season.
These are words from Hughie
Jennings The Tigers leader made
tbs statement while discussing the
Witt ease Q night + 10 ago. Con
tinuing he said
It would he unfair TO mention
the NAMES Of these players. But
the fans can pick them out without
d great deal OF trouble. Take play
ers ike Cobb, Johnson Speaker ana
Alexander ard there Is no cnaacs
10 quihhle ever salary matters. The.
are worth all they are getting paid
Not only are they great ball play
ers. bat they are drawing cards
through the gate That is what
counts.
aThe element Of sport IS the mair
factor Of the game. But, too, there
is also the element Of business Men
who invest hundreds OF thousands
Eog aoilars in q ball team are entitled
10 i faiv rsfurn on their money. 9th
er lines OF business expect it-and
get It. | know that a ball team is
usually a big monsy-maker when ii
il 4 winner. but there are exceptions
eyea to this rule. The Athletics
farm one deviation.
When a club owner signs a con
tract TO pay d ball player $4,000 a
season, or even $4,000, it does not
mean that the expense starts and
{ DIS there. Far from it. The club
. players travelling expenses
h hotel bills, his hospital bills and
dozen otlser things that never en-
an agreement Ct any business
house. Il means about $1,000 extra
attached TO each salary.
Salaries to BE Shaded.
Salaries will be shaded. There
are a let OF players in the American
league who are getting far more
than $4,000 a season. These players
will be cut. scme Of them are work
ing ont long-tern contracts, aud just
as soon as the season is over they
sill be slashed. There are one Or
TWO on the Detroit club who are
geating more than twice as much as
they are worth.
Baseball salaries will never re
turn 10 the old level. And, on the
other aand, | hardly believe that
they viii ever again reach the Level
OF the Federal league days. Those
were days when magnates were
handing out 5000 contracts With
their left fists and $1,000 With their
right.
This does not mcap that the sal
aries o. the stars like Cobb will be
aiaehed. / hardly think this ever
win happen. a star Of the first
magnitude d worth all he can get
4 nsagnate Is wise when he satisfies
such 4 man.
seThe oWner Of The Philadelphia
n tionals made a mistake when he
9 fasea with Alexander ever the size
Of the pitchers 1917 contract. Had
l been the magnate | would haze
called IN Alexander al the close OF
The 1916 season and said.
Nos, Alice, tets get together on
This salarY question for next season,
Il woul have handed him . blank
contract and let him write In his
owu figures The player would nayc
Deu satisfied then and he would
have WoSgea harder than ever for
The success OF his team And the
Philiies. without Alexander. would be
a second division club. Re repre-
SCENTS the difference between a vim
per and a loser
titt May Be Idle.
I'D spencer sew Oscar Wit. the
TIGERS only hold-out. Just a few
days before leaving san Francisco
and he Says that the third baseman
Is stu & determlaed h0ld-out.
WITT declares his only grievance
Is a salary u and thst he VIII noi
play tan unless tho Detroit elul
meets HE terms" says the catcher.
~Hitt has a chance TO 20 in bust
ness On tie coast and he mteuda
telling il up unless President Nayin
comes across"
Wis. So l. Is understood. has beer
tered $4,000 BIZ the club. If
as 4 lot more. IN offering him
tts amount named. President Nayif
ii erted a decent raise ever tl'
70 contract, and met a figure rs
lefea wou'd be satisfactory &
q third bagepa4e Vic may, "a x
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