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Show ROSTER REDUCTIONS I1MIGS Also Will Throw About 400 Ball Players Out of Soft Jobs. By Tribune Special Sport Service. VEW YOBK, Dec 26 Now that the three big leagues have voted to adopt the suggestion we made about a month ago cut the list of players down to twenty or twenty one men it begins to look as if a lot of plunibers, bookkeepers hack drivers, shoemakers and other skilled meehanlc and arti Seers will have to go back to their old trades and quit eating in expensive hottla and riding on the Pullmans The new economy rule that will be put in force this year through the cutting of the rosters of the federal league to twenty men and the American and National leagues to twenty-one men each means that more than 400 ball players or alleged ball players will b heaved oat of their soft jobs and will have to go back to manual labor Each of the twenty four big league clubs now is carrying an average of forty men. Job for Managers The job of picking twenty one men out of the bunch that now clutters op the roster is a hnge job for the man agers John McGraw of the Giants has the hardest lob John has fifty-two fifty-two players on his list That means that he will have to can tairiy one players by May 1 John hasn t seen half of his squad in act on and it will keep him busy -dating the train ing season looking em over i John as n an will remember re leased Dick Rudolph, the great Boston pitcher He also lot go of Hank GoWdy etar of the 1914 world series John also released some other gents who later made their mark in the base ball world Therefore John has planned to give all his reeruits a thorough try out th s j ear He had planned to hang on to every player unt 1 he is con vinced thoroughly tbat he is a busher and never will be anything else But the twenty one player rule -up sets John a plans and John as well as other managers isn t sleeping well these-mghts They fear that when they cut their 1 st down to twenty one they may keep some flash in the pan' players and may let soma real diamonds n the rough go back to the woods Means Big having Reducing the player 1 mit to twenty one means 'that the clubs each wul save about $30 000 a year in salaries and traveling expenses This saving wiU more than make up the extra wages the magnates have had to pay their stars to keep them from jump ing to the Feds It w 11 mean that the clubs m 1915 will operate on a lower expense basis than they did in 1913 be fore the Federal league became a men The reduction of the play ng limit to twenty men will say a the Feds $30 000 also and that means that many of the clubs with a fair break in weather conditions and a fa rly t ght race will ma"ke money in 1915 e en if the attendance is not very much greater than it was in 1914 Those Federal league clubs that lost money in 1914 lost amounts that ranged between $15 00 and $30 000 |