Salt Lake Herald | 1909-03-07 | Page 20 | Holdouts for Big Contracts

Holdouts for Big Contracts Baseball promoters and magnates all allover allover allover over the east are now passing through the annual holdup game by b the ball bail ballplayers ballplayers players who refuse to sign unless they get larger salaries In nearly nearl every e o paper one may ma read reed where this or that player pla er will retire from the game for good unless he ho gets more money In ninetynine cases casee out of or It is a bluff blutt pure and simple and before the time arrives when the umpire calls play pIa ball these same players are running their heads off oft to get contracts at the same figures as last season In nearly very every case cae the player can make about five times as much money playing ball ballas ballas as he can in any line of business for which he is fitted but they the all seem to think the game cannot go on without them Here in Salt Lake there is little of this because Salt Lake Jake is not in a large minor league but here Salt Lake gets a touch of or holding out for large contracts by the bike riders So far ar little has been heard in this direction but before the time rolls around for forthe forthe the men to face the starter every other rider will be looking for a long con contract contract contract tract Bat Nelson has not a R very eo high ion of Cyclone C clone Thompson Thomp on The Cyclone person perRon Is busy hurling challenges at nt the Dane and while Bat was as in the th city this week he was asked How about It He replied Say you have a boy around here named Pete Sullivan Dont you think Cyclone C clone would make a bigger hit If It he got after this lad Nelson elson must have hae heard of a place called Po Pocatello catello catollo In Indiana they the had a law preventing Sunday Sunda baseball It has stood for a number of years year ear Last season S ason the In team won the pennant in the American association About the first thing the legislature of or Indiana did this session was to nasa DOSS a law allowing allo Sunday baseball