Salt Lake Herald | 1907-10-27 | Page 18 | Ned Hanlon Has Scheme

NED ED HAS AS Offers to Manage Ball Team and Draw Pay According to Where the Team Finishes Cincinnati Ot t 26 As the result of ofa ofa ofa a suggestion made by a Cincinnati Cincinnat fan fanNed fanNed fanNed Ned Hanlon has said he would be will willing willIng willing ing to manage the Reds Beds next season on n a 1 graded salary arrangement Here Is the heme Hanlon to have absolute control of oC the team If the team toom finishes last he heto heto heto to get nothing for or his work for fin finishing finIshing seventh pay him 1000 sixth 2000 fifth 1000 fourth third second and for winning the pennant That s a fair faiT proposition said Hanlon Hanion when the matter was put up to him recently If there should be such a thing as my being retained by President Herr Herrmann Herrmann Herrmann mann I 1 would accept that rooters plan planas as It stands or the figures could be ro re reduced S My coming to Cincinnati did not de depend depend depend pend on the salary salan I believed I 1 could help Herrmann build up a winning club or I would never have come He Is the best man In baseball All Alt that he has done for the sport especially the National league will never be known except to the men most vitally affected I have failed and been under fire I have h Ye said before that wanted to en on enjoy enjoy joy one more year before I quit the ac active actie tire tie side of If baseball and nobody re regrets re r grets as keenly as I do that this has not been the year after which I could retire satisfied I have no Idea that I t will ever man manage manage manage age a i ball club after this season but if I did I would accept your fans ans of offer offer fer for with any club Money Ione wont figure in any an other attempt at success ff f I make one