Show PLAYERS KICK ON SLICES IN WAGES I Few Contracts Received by hy Big League Managers In spite of oC the fact tact that er c every one looks for a booming booming- year In baseball and that the Iho magnates themselves ex ex- ex poet to 10 play to 10 a profitable season tho the players are ire taking an view of ot the ca case calSe e apparently for up to date signed ned contracts arc are few and far between be- be tween Iween Usually b by this time In the iho spring each of ot the sixteen major league clubs has a a. big bl- percentage e of the men signed up All alon along tho the line Une club owners and managers are experiencing tho the same trouble and while professed holdouts hOldOut are arc exceedingly few te In number it is evident that dissatisfaction i Ia is wide wide- I spread Maybe Maybo the club owners have havo overreached themselves in the economIcal econom econom- ical policy they adopted some somo months months' ago aso Players Figure There Is a n. limit to eve everything rth 1 says' says tho the players and when both leagues league agreed to cut the tho players to twenty twenty- one men It was waH figured that the tho scheme would reduce operating expenses materially mate mate- and give the tho owners a chance to catch up But nut it seems as though the magnates not satisfied with this radIcal radical rad rad- ical Innovation had bad como come to an agreement agree agree- ment mont salaries all the Iho way along alone S the line it la Is said laid It is a matter mattor o of common knowledge now that a big reason renson for tor diSC discontent has been beon Injected Into the thc Boston Doston fled Hed Sox ox forces b by the Iho somewhat unreasonable unreason unreason- able slicing of ot salaries One Ono fine no Infielder In- In fielder whoso work last season Beason was a revelation and whose presence In the lineup went a long way toward winning win win- vinning ning the pennant and subsequent worlds world's championship had more than cut from the figure ro he ho r received last year car when salaries W were re b by no means out of or proportion to a pla players player's ers jera worth It IH is assorted asserted d. d Other Othor men amen who ho worked for smaller compensation than ordinarily V because be- be cause causo thoy realized that tho club owner was wad up against it have havo been bej given no Increase In the submitted sub sub- mUted milled for tor this year and in at least leant two cases retirement from the thc game is ure sure to lo follow unless the Red Hed Sox So management comes acro across s. s a report says It is Known that three star tar men will retire from baseball and the Bos Boa Boston ton team this Ihla season unless they ir Ket et t what thc they believe bellevo to be their Just de- de comes the word from the iho east cast |