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Show KLING WILL GO 1 CTffijnMO Signs Contract o Play With Chicago Chi-cago Cubs for Forty-Five Hundred Dollars. KANSAS CITY. April 19. John C. Kling. baseball catcher, will walk ncross tho stago at a music hall In Chicago twice a day for one week, beginning Mondav next, to cam the 5700 fine Imposed Im-posed "upon him by the national bnse-hall bnse-hall commission. In addition. Kling will report to Manager Chance of tho Chicago Chi-cago National baseball club Sunday morning and piny out the seuson for the $4.ri00 siilnry offered him. Kling tonight signed a contract with a representative of the music hall whereby where-by lu will appear for three minutes twice a dnv The catcher will have no lines-he lines-he will merely bow nnd say. perhaps, thnt he is glad to be back In Chicago. "Mv real reason for signing the contract,'" con-tract,'" said Kling tonight, "is that I want to got back In baseball. T could I not afford to tako my fine out of my business here, and the theater work will be an nsy way to get tho necessary money. But there will be no talking in my -part.' I came near rejecting the proposition because they wanted me to make a speech." |