The Washington times., 1932-08-01
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!. MORE THAN
$4,000
BY DAVIS ]. WALSH

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-Organ.
azed baseball is prepared to insti-
tute at the close of the present
season salary-slashing campaign
which, I am informed, will make
the revisions and retrenchments
of last winter seem pale and in
Sipid by comparison. The lofty
and the loWly of the profession
will be affected equally by this
drastic wage cut. which will run
through major league budgets to
a total ranging between quarter
and half million of dollars, and,
similarly. will exact a harsh trib-
ute from salaries in those minor
leagues that still survive at that
time.
According to my informant,
there will be very few men in
the major leagues making more
than $4,000 next year"
High cost of operation and a
sharp decline in receipts in GER
tain cities, which, however. affect
all teams, are given as the rea.
sons behind the impending deci-
sion to cut and cut and cut again.
Only in this way, they say, can
certain clubs hope to carry on
without outside help. which isn't
available anyhow, while the plight
OF some minor leagues is repre-
Sented as being so pitiable that
unless they do something pretty
violent they must succumb to the
Inevitable.
RUTH MAY SUFFER HEAVY
AS befitting his regal state,
Babe Ruth probably will be asked
to accept the most staggering
loss. He benefited most by pros
perlty, so it seems no more than
just that, in these haggard times,
he must suffer accordingly. No,
body but the Yankees know what
Ruth may be worth to them next
year, provided he is even with the
club. However. he figures to be
more Or less non-active in 1888
and the price of inactivity is
not and newer was $4,000. Even
as manager Of the Red Sox, he
would be fortunate to gross half
Of that amount.
Hack Wilson, who took so
per cent cut last time in going
from Chicago to Brooklyn and
from Stardom to mediocrity. will
probably be the victim of another
major operation. So will Lou
Gehrig, who got $4,000 two years
ago and isn't worth it now. Bur
leigh Grimes, having an indiffer-
ent year at very high wages, is
another who will take what they
give him or else.
OTHERS TO TAKE CUTS
Babe Herman probably won't
get as much next year by several
thousands of dollars. Dazzy
Vance. about through, will come
tumbllng down into the haircut
money, if he stays at all, Rube
Walberg. of the Athletics, and
Bill Walker, of the Giants, will
be asked to think it over, too, and
If Bill Terry isn't returned as
manager Of the club, the Giants
Will send him elsewhere at a con-
Sequent discount of many thou
sands in Williams enevelope.
Llndstrom, OFT, Jackson and
several other Giants, notably
Johnny Vergez, won't find life
ever the same again and Glenn
Wright, no longer the spark of
the Brooklyn infield, will of
course, be paid accordingly.
I don't know for certain
whether Al Simmons contract
comes up for renewal. but. if it
does, Aloysius will fervently wish
dt hadn't. The same goes for
Lefty Grove and George Earn
shaw.
These are few of the suf-
1ererS, whereas those who will
benefit will be fewer and the re-
ward will not be too lavish, at
that. Jimmy FoXX, apparently on
his way to a new home run
record, can't miss the bigger
money. Neither can Vernon Co.
mez' now the best left handler in
baseball, nor Cissell, whose COM
ing made the Indians. But, bar
ring some of the young fellows
who caught on this year at low
salaries and still have a long
way to come, the list of possible
beneficiaries is soon exhausted.
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