Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 1 | Walter Bratz's sport Gossip

4 4 r j 4 c I Ir d j i In lp I Y ow V that the Aggie and B H. H Y U. U basketball N r anc devoir devotees c i have 1 I least Sst partially pulled from one another's throats b collegiate basketball race Coach Conch Joe Joc J Jensen says SUS it it Was well we'll wel e. e all and Professor Profesor Profesor Peterson has has about cooled down also so 0 o i in al 11 the a I of the thc quoted much Chris Von tier ler Abe hc go bet het mit it de deO gme ea i O ONE NE of the tile principal sports of the day seems to be the thc sit sit-in players and what makes it signing o 0 t particularly interesting i i. i is n th the of some sOe of t the thc e fellows to play pIny Some of of the boys bys in the top big Y r sh show refusing to sign because they hey want nn an increase in salary salar Chi Clubs Pacific Coast league are arc the thc in experiencing same their players The local club has hns made hut hIlt a n few slight wih CU cuts St e S and probably encounter less trouble than of thal some the teams in th this l It I is only natural for a player to o seek all al that h he can get but the l lear ft salaried ball player will find it bal ni 1 necessary to make sacrifices season just like the tile rest of us The Thc war has changed cs materially that n most ost ball bal players nr are arc pretty ll lucky ky to have hn n a b ba bag job at all al This is 15 tho the poorest time in 1 all al the thc history of tho the w men to hagle about their living In nin ninety nine ty t cases out of a Worl 1 hun the tIle baseball player is grossly overpaid u compared to other peon people with wih tlc the le character o of the service rendered Besides nearly l not fighting is is making maln some sort of f sacrifice Tho Those e. e who ho cr c every even ar arc in in p service or are due inc t to fight are making the tle great geat The They only sacrificing their wages and their tune time but t they ey arc are t taking are chance of their lives h and any ny baseball player who ho kicks Over over a o er re able salary should immediately cly put put on 01 a n uniform or else elso be bego made i go o to work at some other job This is no time tune for monkey It I is no time for the thc owners owner and managers of teams to take i of the situatiOn for the tle purpose of unduly lowering salaries but it occasion for baseball to hold certainly no out f for r higher As a matter mater of fact they arc nrc mIghty 1 lucky to be getting any wa at all nIl 1 J T OHN OI Y EVERS has the right idea Things have b been cn going al I J swimmingly for these baseball players the last six SIX or seven se that they began begau to look upon softness of snap as s a part art of ot the K thing Palatial Palatal trains trins all al dolled doled up like l imperial pe ml suites to cany car rea th 1 I across the continent in I 1 tate estate 11 1 1 were 4 preliminaries u. u 1 hotel v l a groom groom on un ms zits US nip LUP trainers trainer and ad I caretakers were attendants upon pla players ers automobiles carried care them in I their street cl clothes thes b back ck and anc forth to games salaries went weilt up like tho those i of bloated aristocrats and altogether a n b baseball sebal players player's life lire was as a avery avery I er very happy one X Now ow comes war and with it some degree of or People are beginning ing to realize t that nt they did did many unnecessary mn cess uce li I and as ns a result resul will wil have to curtail curtal and nud sacrifice which is is only t way of normalizing Many Inny things that we did as ns a matter mater of come e we now find we wc can enn do without just as ns equally a matter mater of cour course coure A And U everyone must do 10 this It I will wil not do tO for any anyone one or two or three thre dozen doze dOU classes to give up UI the soft things thing We Ye must all al do it baseball it-baseball i baseball included One would woul not necessarily demand that baseball go ba back k t hf some of the crudities of early endy da days s All Al the anxious American contend for these days is just good common sense and reasonableness We Vt f were putting on too many nany airs Let Lets Let's s be normal nonal that's all al f Y