Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-02-22 | Page 10 | Alexander Accepts Terms

Alexander Accepts Terms. . PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21. O rover Cleveland Alexander, star t wirier of the Philadelphia Nationals, today mgned a two-year contract and will go south with the team on March 6 to start training for the 1917 campaign. A compromise in true salary differences between Alexander Alex-ander and William F. Baker, president of the club, was reached at a conference lasting several hours. While the figures were not made public, It was said authoritatively au-thoritatively that Alexander is the highest-paid pitcher In organized baseball. At a conference yesterday with Baker. Alexander refused $10,000 a year, declaring declar-ing that unless he was raid f 15.000 he would quit baseball.