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Show IWILL GUT SALARIES, Sim MilS However, There's Vast Difference Dif-ference Between Doing It and Saying It. Bj' Tribune Special Sport Service. NEW YORK, Dec. 16. A baseball player is worth all tho coin he can get for his services. At least this is the way every ball player looks at it, and no doubt it is true in more than one respect. The player naturally figures that he is the attraction which draws tho crowds to the ball parks, and he knows that wirhout ball players baseball base-ball could not exist. It is human nature for all mortals, be they bail players or commuters, to take advantage advan-tage of every chance that conies their way to enrich themselves. But there is a limit to everything. "When tho Federal league busted into the limelight and attempted to overthrow organized baseball and bull its way to an equal level with an organization that took years in tho building, the ball player was carried about on a silver platter, and he took advantage of it. Few can blame the ball player's for grnbbing bundles of perfectly good currency which were huntr before their eves, and for the most part all of tho players who vaulted tho fence to tho Keds have been fort-riven. But the tide has turned it has been turned for a whole ycar--and some of the players who signed long-term contracts con-tracts with the outlaw leaguers are now facing the unpleasant ness of playing ball for less money. So They Say. Major league, as well as minor league club owners, are going to hip oft' huge chunks from their payrolls. They are going to give the players what they feel" they are reallv worth i to them, and they will no doubt make concessions and compromises in many ca.Ts, but as a whole tho salary nf prof essinnal baseball pi ay or will be cut many thousand of dollars before tho tinkle of the bed whuh will start the season of li7 is hear-l. President John K. Tenor of tho Nn-tinnfl Nn-tinnfl league expressed what we believe lis the general sentiment nf the. club ; owners recently when he said: i ' ' Salaries of ball players may be , rorlnred to figures cominrnsuratn with I their value on th? field of piny us I judtred by the men who employ them.'' I la ot her words, Mr. Tener mennt. to intimate that the rlub owners will enn-tinue enn-tinue to pay good salaries, but that the day of exorbitant s.ilari- fur players play-ers who do imt earn them is a thing of the past. The baseball public has listened to a f-n.l manv rmnor here of la'n re er.rdimi a si rike nf iIt ball plnyers. Prosi'i r.t Pave Kultz nf the Pyer' f ra t e v v. 1 1 y . has even hinted that unless un-less the' players u'r-t vihnt. thy want there will be a walknut. The thin;." the players are afkint; fnr, snrnmonel up. are ni"ro enn'-sinn enn'-sinn from the magnate?, p.-irtimbiriv thoao of tli' minor Ifsws. The fra ternity would like to nrd'T the Hub n-nii'TS tn !an'"' ur have them dance, pr-.nto. Tho I'mWnity figured it had been in a st at e of enmn n In re,' thai it nurht o start snn:;;nL'. so it i-aiTc o':t vi h a tb'k nf dc-Tva nds. T1 minor p.tj:io ;-nve thn-n dmanils th ' 1 f-nnh . t-oi-h ' ' fit Xev.- f)rru ns, so t h' fraternity has its back up. It i tr-no that a gon.l manv p!a'."ors have not period i;p for f,17. Per- hai-s only a sm.-i'.l per re;.( are now under conf racl the comii g var, but 'he cbil, owner- have not been' bismg anv ureal amount of sleep over the fa.-t. The plavcs ieu-1 f,-,i with the el,,),, v.l0 1,,,, ,-t , f,n rr S't nronr.d with nothing to do but twiddle their thumbs, and the avorrice loll i, layer h-is !-,, ;!, ..jrigr j (,,. ireheiip to dn nntlrrg but tea!. The r.ntif.nal e.., .-,, ia. rn. -Ob-red the d mil..1, of the f r:,1- -m-l y caref ;ny, end the .i,a,i,.m j s e.iref-il i-i it .l.-nling. in bii'ei a'l. but tie- i.-ndc-rs .f Wat ao-il bo-!v aiul the el;,l, w,. ;),,. ,.. ,,),.., , ., whf.l.-. are ....nfj.i.-ulv exi.e.-t i -:o t ha I nli Wii! be l-re;e Whe,l l,e , , ,. I for unotjier cea-nii to start. j |