New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

Tim keefe, Wnc use" ~ P''~A ''''
- t., old jim, Mutrie for 5000
his will be in excess Of S2,0OO,o0o
resr in big league baseball so far as
salaries are concerned
- paeebal officials are inclined to be
-. that the salaries IN the National ano
...;..n leagues will run closer to total OF
= .oo nm ehan to 81 10000 900. Salaries III the
,e.;onal League. it Is estimated, will reach
:, ooo one and the American League total
..,h,bIy will be over that figure. When
e.o-so Herman Ruth extracts an estimated
- oOo 2 wear from the Golfers of the Ne"
~ American League Club, exclusive of any
t.n,sas which NAV or may not be paid TOR
.sn. runs and when Rogers Hornsby sets
.sa. +be St Louis National League team for
80, ooo with more in sight in the event OF
e,tsin successes, it Is no wonder the directors
the baseball machine say things are reach
r. mass where something will have to break
There are pictures Of Ruth and Hornsby IN
(, Offices Of the magnates, but such portraits
,.n;re mixed feelings in the men who may DC
-m,r,iny the necessary cash to keep the stars
.iefed Below Ruth and Hornsby there come
.seY ieures-but all are getting overpald as
az cIuh treasurer will tell you with trenol
MS voice. IF movie" men want to get some
Tocting cose-ups. with real tears instead of
he clyccrne substitutes, they should turn the
SIN guns on 3 baseball treasurer this sprung
nd GET him 10 talking shop.
1t is figured that the big leagua pay rolls
rg be % nef cent larger than last year.
lherc is no team in the sixteen under 100000.
from tha; the club pay roll goes UP to S22o,-
900. Hold-ups dont hagglc about mere diff
feences of $500 or 81, 900 any more. Some
tines differences between players and man
afers amount to more than star players
/ entire salary in an earlier and less favored
/ tra This difference may be $1,000 or $4,000,
The player sometimes gets it in its entirety,
! or perhaps it is compromised and he gets
i $500 But he gets somcthing, for, with the
] b2sebsll competition so keen, the managers
l ere not running The risk or defeat by failure
I g sign any star players,
In this Way baseball is proposition en-
4 trcy unique. II is cooperative business, as
eHidenced by the sharing of gate receipts to
holster the weak clubs. The visiting team gets
home team gets its SO per cent Of the gate anc
II addition gets all the grandstand receipts
thus teams like the New York clubs that have
large grandstand patronage make more
honey than the clubs in other towns wher'
'ae bleachelite still survives in bulk,
But this division of the gate is as far 4
7ssehall operation goes--in theory, at least
When it comes to signing players. each clu
4 'cn its OWL" Salaries are at the discre
son OF the management, in contrast with tn
asys when salary limits were in effect
f 1t was not always so in baseball, Befcr
y 'ae Brotherhood revolt matters were re
/ iersed, There was salary limit Of $2,40
(which was not being observed to the lette
~and there was no division OF the gate re
tslpts with the visiting teams. AS John
ward pointed out to the writer of this artlcl
'0e failure to look after the weaker teams le
the formation Of the Players League.
They were going to establish q salal
amt Of $4,000 in the National League sa
r' Ward, who is now lawyer with an of1i'
zf7 Broadway and who was shortstop
me New York Giants when the break cam
/ we tried to convince the club owners tn
/ @es Should let the visiting teams have half Il
1 ss'e receipts. This would have insured go'
anahcial returns to such a team as Indiana
VHs, where a $4,000 salary limit otherwi
would have been all the team could star
Out the team owners would not listen to Il
opposition and the players organized thu
WIN league. But now the leagues adopt t
ss'e sharing system, which is direct outcol
'he Brotherhood movement. Most peol
"'S on the Players League as the outcome
s9fke on the part Of the players. 1t "
SO' 1T was forced upon the players, and
@s oeen proved to be justified. If the leag1
s not adopted the gate sharing plan VIII
s players wanted them to adopt at the tt
'e Brotherhood such teams rs the prese
10y Athletics would not be able to exist,
-ase their receipts at home are not suftci
support them
me baseball magnates freely admit t
=. brotherhood was the first big means
s'hs salaries, In fact, salary raises in
sun OF professional baseball are divided j
I I've eras, succeeding the pre-Brotherh
ss WIEN $500 was top hole. The first !
came when the Brotherhood was ore
ard the stars got the taste Of real
1ne, the American League made