Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11

ny the Associated Press.
N EN- YORK, February IL
M Carrying pay rolls estimated
VI TO total half million dol
i lars. Connie Mack and John
McGraw will launch the
most expensive base ball craft In
their long careers as managers on
rival pennant cruises this year:
With the acquisitions OF Zach
Wheat, Ty Cobb and Eddie Collins
by the Athletics, base ball men today
figured that Mack's salary and bonus
bill for the season would reach the
.million-dollar mark. The
Giants salary total, likewise. has
been sent sky -rocketing by the addi-
lions OF Rogers Hornsby, Eddie
Roush and Burleigh Grimes.
Cutting of the purse strings of
the New York and Philadelphia clubs
mas led TO an unprecedented series
of trades and purchases. In Hornsby
the Giants added a $4,000 star TO
their pay roll. while yesterday they
mailed a three-year contract to
Roush, which is said to call for s19.-
600 a season,
The signing OF Wheat, Cobb and
Collins is estimated to have added
$ls5,0oo TO the seasons salary bill
of the Athletics. Mack also paid
fancy prices for new infield talent
from the minor leagues in landing
Dudley Branom. first baseman, from
Kansas City and Joe Boley, Balti-
mere International shortstop.
Many Fat Salaries.
If Roush signs for the $4,000
salary he received last year base
ball men figure the club will have at
least seven players whose pay checks
for the season will exceed $40, 900.
They are Hornsby. $4,000; Roush,
$4,000; Grimes. $4,000; Ross Young.
$4,000; Virgil Barnes. Fred Lind
strom and Travis Jackson, $1,000.
To complete the deal by which they
acquired Grimes and Outflelder Har-
per from the Phillies, the Giants paid
$4,000 to Buffalo for Infielder
Thompson, who figured in the trade.
Bevo Lebourveau, Toledo outfielder,
cost them $4,000, and Catcher De-
vormer of Louisville a similar sum.
Possibilities of the Yankees eX-
ceeding the pay roll of the Giants
was seen, however, If Ruth and Herb
Pennock both succeed in extracting
generous salary increases.
Says Babe Will Play.
Miller iiusglns packed his grips
to return to Florida today with the
confident prediction that Babe Ruth
will be back In his old place with
the Yankees when the season opens"
In contrast to the doubtful head
shakings of Business Manager Bar
row and the silence of President
Jacob Rupert, the smiling pilot of
the American League champions in
dicated he found no cause for worry
in Babes threat to quit base ball
II the club does not increase his sal
airy beyond the $4,000 he has re-
ceived annually for the last five
years.
II am going to Florida to take up
golf seriously until the players show
up" said Higgins, when asked If he
would confer with Ruth in California.
Take 1t from me. Ruth will be at
81. Petersburg and will be back in
his old place with the Yankees.
We're all ready for our biggest year,
for we've got TO beat the Athletics
and Ty Cobb, as well as the Nationals
and iris Speaker"
May Effect Compromise.
Barrow indicated he expected the
home-run king would appear here
later in the month to discuss terms
of his new contract. A substantial
increase in his salary is forecast by
base ball men, who point out that
renewal of the old terms served
merely as a gesture TO conform TO
the base ball rule which requires con-