Show BIG IE LEAGUE T TL TEAMS WilL L HAVE TO CURTAIL Limit Has Been Reached in Salaries This Season Season Sea Sea- I son Will Tell NEW YORK K March 6 The The financial 1 side of b baseball promises to be one of the most Import Important factors of the pro pro- 11 game during the coming sea sea- son Recent readjustments In the sport h have confronted the magnates with problems which can only be answered at the expiration of the 1915 pennant races Far from the least of these is Ie lo lothe the question of the players player's salary Iary A large majority of the club owner owners In both major majo and minor league circuits are convinced that the limit h has been reached In this direction and curtailment curtail curtail- ment Is necess necessary Just how and when to put this economy Into effect Is I. a proposition over which there Is II a wide variance of opinion Manager l Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia Athletics has shown Spartan qualities b by pruning nis flis former worlds world's championship team by sale H. and release until Coombs Bender Plank and Col Col- Col Collins lbs lins are arc no lon longer er Athletics and Bakers Baker's connection with tho the club Is uncertain President Edward narrow Barrow of or the thc International International International Inter Inter- national league has notified the various club owners In n his circuit that reductions reductions duc in tn players players' salaries were In order Other league executives and club owners own own- ers s tavot similar moves but are arc do- do h by lon long term contracts which cannot bo be violated Tho The move toward economy econom can be seen Reen however In the unconditional release of players wherever I possible Not in man many years ears has there thel been the number of unconditional unconditional unconditional releases as recorded sinco tho the close of or the 1914 IH H ason A prominent baseball official said re recently recently re re- that the average follower of the game Jarno did not realize trio Increased d cost of ot the tho game mf due to the advancement ad In players players' ers salaries Various angles tUles in tho business side bide of ot the sport made It lH necessary Including the Increasing popularity pop pop- of or basketball Independent opposition opposition op op- op position and the tho banding together of at tho the themselves elves Looking at It in iii a broad minded manner h he said that there thE were conditions In the situation situa tion which warranted Increases but In Inmany Inmany inmany many cases cates Increases ses were out of or proportion proportion pro pro- portion to the services s rendered It has h been cn estimated estimate that tho the average average aver aver- age go sal salary lly paid by hy nu major Jot league clubs has been doubled In the last ten year cars In the time case caso of or a majority of tint till I players players play play- ers time tho Increase inca Is less lebs than a arear year rear hut but when tho the contracts of stars like EdHe Edilie Collins Speaker Valter Walter Vial Val ter Johll Johnson on Jako Jake Daubert and nd Sam Crawford are aro figured In tho the general Jeneral advance reaches a surprising amount The salary limit of tho the National league was waa 2400 fifteen years ears a ago o. o Today the salary lalar of the tha mediocre player exceeds th these rJ figures and th there re Is no limit for forthe forthe forthe the stars authorities who vho have e studied tho tIme situation care carefully tully l point out that under the conditions that tha prevailed Inthe in inthe inthe the carl early a star Infield and outfield outfield outfield out out- field containing tu such BUCh h players as Delo- Delo hanty Lajoie Cro Cross N. N Flick and Thomas could be secured d for an annual outlay of approximately 1 Toda Today a elm- elm liar combination would require a yearly yearly year year- ly Iy expenditure of five rIve to seven Neven times that amount Yet the gato gate receipts provo prove that attendance has not increased increased- In anything like tho the caine ratio Eddie Collins Collins' acquisition and contract la is said to lo represent an outlay of moro more than lhnn during the tIme n next nert five rIve years A AChl Chicago s o statistician has figured that he ho will have to draw well over a quarter million extra attendance to tho the White Sox ox park If It ho Is to Individually repay the Investment |