Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-28 | Page 30 | Experts Expect Many Holdouts

EMISLgT Demands for Increased Pay Will Be General; Few Sign Up, CHICAGO, Dec. 27. New contracts for tho 1920 season must be proffered approximately' ap-proximately' DO per cent of the regular players on major league baseball clubs, expert followers of the game said here today. That condition, with the increased in-creased interest displayed in the national nation-al pastime, 'they said, probably will re-suit re-suit in a numher of players following Babe Ruth, the Boston American pitcher j and outfielder, in demands for increased ! salaries. Retrenchments effected for the period after the war when the owners expected to be confronted with lessened interest in baseball led to many one-year con- I tracts being made. Long time contracts for a number of stars terminated with the past season. So far few players of the Chicago clubs have been signed. Alexander, Killefer and Robertson are the Natior al league I cluli stars who have made 1920 contracts. j Only a few youngsters have made con- : tracts with the Chicago Americans. Eddie Collins' five-year contract xpired last fall. Eddie Cicotte's contract also ended, as did the one-year agreement with Ray Schalk. So far. however, there has been no announcement an-nouncement of increased demands by any of the Chicago players.