JOE OE DIMAGGIO MAY DRAW vi It ke e Ruppert Preparing g gI I S or Annual Salary Siege Stege As Signing Season Nears By GAYLE TALBOT V 2 YORK Jan 7 AP That AP-That That Joe DiMaggio will sign for I this season and eventually say in three more years a peak salary of from the Yankees is the consensus of the smartest baseball minds around town IL they agree will vilI never api ap- ap i Rhe the that was banked uth in 1930 and 1931 Its It's erent day times are tougher is Colonel Jacob R Ruppert J year old old ear owner of the Yan- Yan IThe IL The colonel no longer is a such mch the he speculation was born report port in a local paper that famous farnous San Francisco spa- spa bender already had signed for 1938 at a stipend or above the he received for smiting 46 S runs ns la last t year ear r aggio raggio did it promptly and andI I Ed d Barrow secretary of the theOn theOn theOn On the day they were sup- sup to have signed the document iw contends he was on a train ute here from St St. Louis Also ys ys' he never has been in the the ceremony was reano re- re ano ito have taken place so it have been two other house dee dees de de- de- de e es I I Got Together at sounded fishiest about the thet t ted signing to those who know best was the idea that he lade so momentous a decision wn hook Its It's well known he San Francisco ling i g the aunts uncles and andis 1 is get their heads together thing of that sort j says S 'S Barrow will ill receive e contract with the Yankees' Yankees ill offer very ery shortly along the other players ers He Heill will ill willit it with It-with with ith him no doubt when lows up here January Januar 18 to the Farr Braddock-Farr fight light ig other lg other things That's when will ill really begin K re seems to be no doubt in indy's dy's dys 1 s mind that DiMaggio is ed d eventually to become the paid player in the theof of the game But the Yanks a tighter rein on himi him tl i y did on the Babe It is sting to see how Ruths Ruth's pay jounced bounced upward after bethe he be hethe R the tie club 1921 26 1922 J 1927 31 1930 80 Behind Ruth aggio now it will be observed behind what the Bambino yawing ving down do after a similar f service with the Yanks uth h was an established star Before fore he reported to Miller MillerS ns as S If Joe talks them out of J or the coming season and ands ms s for hes he's going to nd it will be a reca rec- rec ja a third year man wise the news that Joe is got goter goter go- go t ter r that kind of money should crop of headaches e Yankee front office The Lou Gehrig who S 3 tops at are certain W JW for a proportionate hike Jf S Gehrig it is recalled held for last sea- sea W wf N Joe DiMaggio