Show A ADDITIONAL I B IF EaB SPORTING NEW NEWS s 1 BOSSES NOW COME COMETO COMETO COMETO TO BAT BUT THEY WILL SWING AX Now that the re regular tUlar lar bas season lots arc and ara lots of Is lots Iota passed to happen to what's going w wondering Just Them them n financially y speaking next season Th The Tho bull bulk of the war time contracts ex expired expired ex- ex Ired at the close of the seasons season's play Kor OJ or all but a rare few whose guarantees guaran tees teea extend Into 1917 1911 the days dae of bulky pa pay envelopes are over And now that the magnates are going to have their turn at al bat the players are what you might call apprehensive they fear feRr that the moguls are Arll going to batter her the wadding addIng out of their wages wage s. s Which there th are Shrieks leks of pain anguish and distress Will iU resound In the land Just as all soon as the the- time comes for Cor the signing of oC the 1917 contracts The Th players will make those nolle The only only ones the magnates will wl exude exode e will be Sign S them n papers P drat bt nJ you or go 0 back ac to yo your r J Job of truck driving Some Seme Slashing The bo boys boye who have become used to 1000 and Incomes will wUl have to be content with lew leas oh oh very much less Ius Wouldn't b be surprising if t the owners e who were gouged o St by t the tJ players ra when he warfare existed would fix or as the maximum for the star atar and performers and much smaller wages wagE'S for Cor the ordinary athlete ath ath- lete O. O Herrmann a B Cincinnati gent tipped the mitt of oC the magnates sometime sometime some some- time ago He Ifs murmured that players e In Inthe Inthe tf the efU future who eo got more than V or so must be very good g Indeed Y t rat mt athletes who t pronged their e b bosses S for from to eb fl when the e Feds were alive and kickIng kicking kick kick- c Ing In will be fortunate If they can cin n shake shakedown shakedown down their masters for Cor 1800 to 2400 More than seventy five wartime agreements agreements agree agree- ments expired this year each club owner has hM cut loose from Crom at least four Cour some six six or seven The big bulk of the contracts it will be remembered w were re made before the playing the playing season of began Be cause s the e Feds were eJ signing ning up the ulu JumpIng jumpIng Jump Jump- f Ing boys o f for 1 three ir ye years e rs the h faithful I ones Insisted upon a similar courtesy from Crom the organized folks J Estimates Cut The payrolls of oC major league ball clubs club In 1917 will be on an average 43 45 4 per percent percent percent i cent smaller than in 1911 S. S 1915 and 1916 one ono magnate said Some clubs will cut the outgo at l least 50 per cent h The e play play- players I ers era h had the whip hand for three years Now the magnates wield it Turn about Is fair Call play Just how the men who assumed contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts of Federal leaguers are going to reduce C salaries s sn and n keep within 1 the e law lawIs fd t sa it Is a question a at this l time Those c contracts contracts con con- tracts were worded In such a way that I Ithe the renewal of them automatically gives the player a salary Increase Those Fed documents specifically stat state state- that upon expiration of the con con act act the they can be renewed only b by the magnate granting to the player at least a a. 5 per percent percent percent cent increase In the amount nan nan d In this contract But those magnates will find a way way way- I to avoid not merely the gran granting tin of that Increase but to cutting the present figure T avo It to them |