Show Healthy Salaries 1 DIM I ag Raised R. R alse d Feller Cut Cui CutIn ul In 1949 Pacts j By Bf Pat Robinson 4 NEW YORK Feb 7 INS INS INS- Joe DIMaggio signed a 1949 conI contract con con- I tract with the New York Yankees Monday Monda that will I reportedly pa pay him one of the highest salaries I ever earned by a baseball player I Earlier in the day Bob Feller FeUer I Cleveland's fireball hurler signed his this 1949 contract at an 1 ate figure which was a apay I pay cut of from last season j He received during the 1948 season which was the worst I ince he broke into the major I I leagues Feller a guest at the annual dinner of the New Ne' York baseball Sunday night said he was t very happy over his new contract I Neither the Yankees nor DiMagio DiMaggio zio gio io would say what the contract called for but the indications are that jolting Joe will pull down at 1 least east this year and perhaps j t more Inore f Babe Ruth highest paid ballplayer ball ball- player P yer In Yankee history was f paid a year in 1930 and 1931 Earnings from exhibitions boosted his pay those years ears to about DiMaggio io was paid last year including a bonus arrangement arrange arrange- ment This put him under the re reported reported re- re re-I re ported salaries of Boston's Ted Williams and Cleveland's Bob Feller FeUer Last year Dil batted I led the American league in home runs with 39 and topped the the league in runs batted In with The terms were believed to have been a compromise between what Joe asked and what Yank President President President dent Dan Topping and General Manager George Weiss offered The pact arranged Monday appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap to be somewhere between with a lump sum salary in which the bonus bonus if if any was any was a secondary secondary secondary second second- ary matter |