Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-07-02 | Page 16 | What Ball Players Do with ir Salaries

I I WHAT HAT AT BALL PLAYERS IJO 00 WITH THEIR SAlARIES S By THE SPORT SEER NEW YORK July 1 They l. They sold me melike melike melike like a slave Tris Speaker the poor poor slave of or baseball made that crack when the Boston Boston Bos Boa ton Red TIed Sox sold him to the Cleveland Indians for the for the piffling price of ot with a couple of players thrown thrown U In for good measure But now every ery time pay day comes around Tris hires an auto truck to get his salar salary to the bank banI And Tris is not the only poor slave of ot baseball In the same came hard fix He has many companions who drag down fabulous salaries for getting out in the sunshine and doing what most men would be tickled to do for nothing especially these spring lays days s 's when tho breezes which come in through the tIme office office office of of- fice windows are so 50 pleasant Speaker wouldn't sign with Boston for a year He lIe Is reported to be getting getting get get- ting at Cleveland I What do the players do with the money queries the man who thinks There aint that much in tho the whole w world orld wJ with They eft it ft la Invest those without It it they r i business buy i n good Interests n clothes find plenty of time during the winter months to spend it for and then of course th there re is 15 the missus Many of the players are married and so have the problem of ot getting rid of their coin solved for them In the old da days s 's when Fielder Jones and the White Sox were ivere blazing their way to lory as the Hitless Wonders Fielder invested his coin so fast that it drove him out of ot baseball lIe He had to leave to take care of ot his lumber Interests in Ore Ore- gon son But Buthe he is back again Ty Cobb the Georgia peach who has been dra dragging down a fat stipend from Detroit for ten years owns so much property at Augusta Ga that soon he will be between the devil and the deep blue sea He wont won't know whether to play or stay home and tend to his knit knit- ting But Cobb likes the game as well as the salary and probably will w be around as all long as his legs are limber and his batting eye keen This spring his arrival arrival ar at- ar- ar rival in training al g camp was delayed be because be tade cause the fire at Augusta destroyed so much of his holdings J J. Franklin Baker the home run lun king playing third for the Yankees after a ayears ayears ayears years year's retirement has put much of his money into good Maryland farm land and each winter retires to his own toll soil Christy Mathewson owns a fortune which makes him Independent of ot managers managers managers man man- agers and every one else It has been amassed by careful Investment of his baseball earnings Then too because of his baseball fame he has made money as a writer Frank Chance the Peerless leader manager of the Cubs in the da days s 's of Charles Webb foot Murphy and later manager of the Yankees owns a fine fruit ranch at Glendora California The Time call of baseball proved too strong however however however how how- ever and this year hn he Is 15 back in the game as owner of ot the tho Los Angeles team in the Coast league All of the time players are far more careful of their money than are the prize fight fight- ers Some of the tho old guard of twenty ea ef ft years rs ago are broke and trying to make money as best they can but most who have retired within the tIme last ten years did so with stake slake enough to start in business And unlikely prize fighters they do not drop in into the e business of running nl sa sa it l loons Joons ggs Many a o operate pool and billiard parlors some have garages garag Mo Most t successful of all the players in point of fame and money is Billy Sun Bun day Sunday tells the story of ot quitting baseball at a n. year to take up Y 1 M. M L C. C A A. A work at SOO But that was as long ago