Show NS fA-NS ANS TO 70 PAY PAr FREIGHT AS BASEBALL LL PLAYERS COLLECT BIG SALARIES S Eddie laughed at a contract con con con- tract act offered him by Garry Herrmann Hod Eller le demanded 20 a and aid Dutch S g ge gea tIP Ruether th asked s cr o. o Babe Ruth tore up a contract and demanded 20 20 COO and a share of ot the money Involved in inthe the deal sending him to the Yankees Greasy Neale Neal a a. good fielder but not at atall atall all alt extraordinary dema demanded ded to work for Cincinnati They've gone wild b over salaries la i baIt A year r ro ago the ef magnates ifs itt believed v baseball was o on trial for Its life They didn't know what damage the war had done to it and they went about their preparations for tor the 1919 season in a very conservative fashion Baseball went over big ig last year and now comes 1920 and the magnates have raised the price of admissions and are battling with the tile holdouts Everything is going up Of course the fans must pay the freight this year this as In the past It looks like a bigger trial for baseball this year than thanin thann in n I I 4 |