Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 4 | Baseball Fans Harbor Little Sympathy for Unjustified Holdouts

FANS HARBOR HARBORs LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR FO s UNJUSTIFIED HOLDOUTS layers Who Are Out for Big Bg Coin in Wartimes l Due for Shock Club Owners Suffer Financially Finan Finan- Financially l i dally and Boys Must Shoulder Portion I S. S Burden Some Pretty Lucky I of S 'S I BY I. I E. E SANBORN 11 15 1 S Veteran Chicago Baseball Writer S J Feb 23 This This is the year in which the baseball i holdouts get little sympathy from the funs fans AVith so many llis his former ronner ass associates already enlisted or drafted and so soa fany a any Y minor leagues gone gone busted the flue average major lea leaguer ner of s. s will be considered mighty lucky by th the general public J Thanks to the f foresight which prompted club owners le led ledI I the American league to ally themselves with the military in v various ways and aud to devote generous sums to toi i time charities the professional ball hall player escaped the large laiKe Ii he of ot being a slacker last season when the publics public's verdict the balance Iras S hanging Y i 1 in Lu less Jess ici LUl l rA A nd g u on the part of e magnates and the player td have f found und his O gone through the time closing f all parks and his popularity ty raning fast That was what ha t in many of the minor for the time owners lacked h he coi oin or the public spirit or oroto oto ototo to conduct the game at nt a aES oss ES 4 Players Dont Don't Realize Crisis vB Because T the thc major magnates went vent I hr ugh the tile season without complain com corn plain although all lL except a few of them em em lost money their players continued con con- mif to draw fat salaries and maintained main main- aid their popularity with their theil n ad- ad nir rs For that reason a number of ot the he pla players have ha failed to grasp SHie t C fact that the United States is is at atT t T and have hae conce conceived cd the time idea iden the was not going to be he affected af af- af- af in the least by changed condi- condi iO is That i is the time len lenient ent way of at the holdouts of 1918 They not realize what the they have c to be thankful for nor what the they are arc going goin Ho I e up against in in case their club owners 1 rs get tired of conducting the sport tt at a loss Bip Bi s salaries for Cor a a. couple of or hours hours' rork o k a da day are a thin thing of oC time the past except ext ex ex- t In such cases as con- con with players These will be unless things get too bad but l em men n who ho are arc not enough t to h he hue e up hold contracts with anther anther an- an ther season to run will have ha to Join bands lads da with whOm the club owners In hel helping heiing to keep baseball alive until the end arid of or pe ewar war It Is a cinch If IC time the club climb owns own- own tr ra as s a whole have to cough up more money olty easy In time the coming season than they Wd Id last lut year rear a n. bunch of or them will voteS voto vote S close dOSS their parks Tax Tar lilt Hit Faun Fans This Thin Y Year r The club dub owners owner most moat of ot them du dug nto their pockets to save the time pastime as t year The Time Tans fans will liars have to go leper Pr Into their pockets to see lee the thc am this year yeal on account of or the war ax which the government Go insists shall e paid by the patrons and not by br the promoters of oC all amusement enter- enter tie It ft would seem as If Ie the players u UK nt t to be willing to tb do their share award oWard conserving baseball for Cor the enK en- en K aTtainment of oC soldiers and civilians b by reduced salaries without Undoubtedly man many o of the diamond etes arc are doln doing so so arid and of or those w we e rear ear nothing except that tho they have ha ed the contracts sent to them with with- ut Ul complaint The Thc exceptions who dethe doan de- de an and the Inflated s salaries the they have tin setting getting or Increased ala salaries rles or orb b be ige e bonuses onuses for COr being traded are arc we wc henr and read about ut the tha 1 1 MI ranI no longer re regard ard th them S idols Idol who ho d h he We alt all they can get rat pUblic now regards them as In- In 0 Who ho ought to be given Kven a chance dig h trenches for tor soldiers soldier pa pay to tot t each 1 them time the difference bel between tIe tIe- tading o nga homo home plate for Cor a a. couple of oC Ours our un per diem the r defending a sector 5 eln front Cronl twenty four hours r Y for tor a fortnight or three weeks te Are Flaring Pla Pair I the is n no disposition Position on the time part F. F tat of ether eIther of ot the tho hi m league own- own M f th the tho circuit to tako talco advantage ad sItuation to reduce salaries un- un here he e I There Pero ma may be exceptions exception but hut hutOI is holdout OI J no such excuse c for or the leading 0 of f time the Th The year ear up P to date Chicago Hie he fC ew S York York- American 1 league ft 7 iu and naOe hun It et fair return oY on their Investments inning e b because ciu e the they had pennant ends t teams and nd shared In the time f the let series letes es Its besides None other n clubs chubs in the 7 aJor alrH mild MI that lid Sd although eland Cleveland nd mud Boston In In P tim the American league tile tUe ium In time the National did a better than break k C cn ii 1 but without of thus the clubs lo lost l hear hear- need the advertising ad ln that fact act 1 lonal na baseball b i chief i trouble with h em cam m to regald Promo promoters It rs Is that the they timey t lm t losses loue a as a tradition not to K but Ce to keei a i ss oC anti and facts tach claim to make money mone or figures Ak i