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Show WHAT WOULD JACOBS DO WITH PLAYERS' The business end of baseball has re suited In son e strapge s tuatlons but w,?it J!,""6 eSuar' '1 that threatened by Wolverton and Jacobs ex owners of the ex Sacramento ball team who vow tbat HifX .VJ,,retav,In tb? tlUe t0 the Players even If they have to carry the r case to the courts says the Los Ange es Times ew baseball men bel eve that they can win tl elr contention argulni that they lost all claim to the p ayers when they fal ed to pay their sa arles the lat ter part of tl e season In sho t they fa led to fulfil their part of the contract thereby nu ifylng the same It is ar gued B.utdmlii!ne- for th8 Eak of argument that they will by some chance win thel case natural y a lot of people w 1 be cur ous to know what they intend to do w t to players Wolverton and Jacobs have no fran chise They are without a baseball home And if they get the players they wl 1 have no ba 1 c ub id the general accept ance of the term They will s mp y have a co ectlon of Individual atl etes witl no fixed object in life except to draw tbe r salaries. In order to retain title to their p ay ers In case they won them it would be necessary to hitch them up to contracts for 1915 Th s would prove very expen s ve Some of the Sacramento playe s drew down In the neighborhood of $400 a month last season and m ght not stand for a reduction It is hard to understand what Wolver ton and Jacobs want witl a gang of bal P aj ers under these conditions Asa last resort they might Start a dairy and put the players to work. Even so there are few ba 1 p ayers who would consent to act as nurse glr to a Holsteln whl e 1 ard y any of them could earn $400 a month teasing lacteal fluid out of the nob e bo lne We have a vision of Tommy Tennant playing the ro a of millt ma d or of Ed d a Ha linan bedding down the Ion g klne on a wet night Learned attorneys arguing In court for possession of Deacon Van Buren is also One of the finest little sights that we can imagine Sacramento exh blted some good ball players last season but taken In the ag gregate the team was more or less a th ng of horror Mos if the ocal fans see n to think that Wol e on and Jacobs should e- tend Sa t Lake a vote of thanks fo tak ing It off their hands |