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Show Sport Parade Ruth's Salary What Is Man Worth? a a Cut Admission Prices farted Proas Sparta Writer NEW YORK. March It One Bullion Bul-lion bucks, fifty eents aa hour. A thouaand a homer. Nothing. Thaaa were a few af tha ane-wen (a a aueatlon how snurb. should Babe Ruth get thtt year' 4n a poll conducted among tha two toblea, raa-Identa raa-Identa af Geld Duet ledge by the Salvation Army. Whan all lha ballots wara la and an average struck. It wai found that tha genilemea af Oold Duet ledge, whoee prevent Income la 100.000 00, believed that tha Yankee lugger eheuld receive S4 SSS OS (or his lit services. Thtt Is )uat I10U0 leas than Colonel Jake Ruppert's af fer. ' fa aSINlin to sha lSTt Vetera erbeee aataaiaaes wara SaalafiS In aba avwraga. It wara af the aplntia ibaS Bwtb waa ealHIig to "alt ba eaa get." Twa Oeid Baaaars aeoaing "Olve beat litis a roar. Tbei", as a saaa who neve baa dene s aeefwl SayH work la htt late la worvk.' Another chap probably ' aa aid Red Sol pitcher arret: "Olva him nothing and put him In aIL" A fallow who eigned hla alip "Juet a Pan for AU Bporta In All Plelna af Ufa" waa of tha opinion that Babf should get 1100.000,000, deaplte "Andrew Carnegie's Car-negie's warning that Be) man Is wwth mora than 1 1 00.000 a year . One Oold Dueler nlf Ruth should get )uat what ba did laat yaar, and then went on to eaplaln why. "If Ruth's pay tt rut " ha wrote, "the money will go to Colonel h up-pert- and what done Colonel Ruppert need with mora money? He's already got mllllone, and. In addition, has s brewery where ha can alt all day and drink bear If ha wenta to. I've got no rrnpathy with a man la that poat- Seeae af the at bar sneaars weret "Wbelewr ba aanta." "hie vnlaa," 'IS seata," "per ventage of lha PrarHa, "SI SSS far every . keener,4 f eaana an hear, ba aaaae tbotl tea hi, beet I ever get, "aama aa Lea Oahrtg." aaaae aa what Teas Mis seta a yaar -beedred grand, with half af M geleaj to eharrty aad "MS a araah." Another arts of the euaatlons la tha pool waa, "la view at lha fact that tha baeeball anueia hava rut players play-ers salaries, do rod believe they 1 ahould eleo cut a dm union price, T" Tha groat majority of the vetari favored a cut la wit, with suggested sug-gested slsihes ranging from II to 10 per rent. One fellow, wha gave htt former occupation aa a plan tuner, aid that IS cants should be lbs top price during hard times. Not ,11 of the men favored reduced prlcea, however. Almost II par cant of them voud sgalnat chopping the admiaalon, holding that It would "cheapen tha gama." |