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Show pliant of the league on paper. McGraw and Hornsby, however, reached an agreement on terms after a conference of about ten minutes. Tile signing of the contract lo help out the photographers, was postponed until the next day. It was reported at the time that Hornsby asked for $-10,000 a year and got it with such little effort that he felt he was a sucker for not demanding more. Since then, however, there have been found reasons to believe that Hornsby didn't get any more than SS0,I00 he was getting in St. Louis and that he got a raise only in the shape of a bonus for signing. Gii'es Is Quiet JIcGraw's troubles seemed sure when he manipulated a trade by which he secured Hurley Grimes from the Brooklyn club, one of the most notorious holdouts in baseball, but Grimes' contract came back in the next mail. r . '.- HOLDOUTS ARE FEW THIS YEAR Scandal Seems to Have Tamed Some of the "Bad Actors" of Game PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 1 (UP) Some business men do "not believe that the recent scandals will make baseball bankrupt and neither do the players, but for some reason the hired help of the Major league club owners are signing new contracts with alacrity and smiles. Before Rogers Hornsby was traded trad-ed out of the management of the world champion St. Louis Cardinals to the Giants ami when the Nevi; York Yankees heard a rumor thal Babe Ruth thought he might be worth $15U,0U0 per on a new contract, con-tract, there were good resons to believe be-lieve that there might be a concert etl holdout movement this spring. Scandal Makes Change But when the scandals startec popping, when two of the greater veterans of baseball were eased o:ft of their jobs and when many of the highest ranking stars in the game were summoned to -testify before Commissioner Landis, the magnates began announcing the receipt of signed contracts from some of the most habitual salary disputers in baseball. Hornsby couldn't get what he wanted from the St. Lor: club and when he was given pas 'age up ihe river to New York it was thought that John MeGrmv would have a job more difficult than wi-min-i a pennant ill getting the prize cle- |
