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Show ! LARGE SALARIES TO BE CUT NEXT SEASON Baseball Stars Won't Get Huge Amounts for Services. Fat Wartime Contracts Will Be Visible Visi-ble No More and Preference Will Be Given to Players Returning From War. There will he u house eleiinliiK In hiisehiill next HprliiK. If II"' H'n0 j conies Imck llii'ii, lint II nniy not be the kind of house cleiinlnt; Unit HaU .lohnson iiroiliesled. The prcHcnt n- tionitl ci nlsslon nniy or inny not lie put In power hkiiIii. There limy he or inny not he a new heiul to Unit commission com-mission ; there nniy he n new lender of Ilie Nntioiml lenKUc, "nil thero inn even be n new lender of the Aiimrlc.0 lenne. 'All these things nre iiofslblT hut whnt Is most jirohnhle of nil Is i lVorKiiuiziitinn nnd n rcKiiHK "f ul' nries. 'J'lie fnt wnrtime contracts will bo visible no more. Viillnnt nlhleles who drew rroiu 5,000 to .S,000 while tlielr clubs lost heavy money will be offered from IfL'.oOO to $1,000. If there is any preference In uwrdlnK the bl,' money, it will lie shown to men returning from the wnr, ns it Is felt that they could not help their departure, and k'ivc up lnrcc incomes cheerfully to serve the nation. Superfluous agents, extra flnanelul managers, etc., will be lost to view. Baseball will simply shirt In again and will try to rebuild Its shattered fortunes along sane nnd economic lines. This comes unolllcinlly, but none the less correctly, through Uiu otllce of the national commission. Agents of the Arizona Copper league, which comprises the six Arizona Ari-zona cities of rUsbce, I'rescott, l'hoe-nix, l'hoe-nix, Oakland, Jerome and Tombstone, are on their way east to grab big league players. Forty I'aciilc coast men have gone in with these six clubs, but the promoters want major leaguer, too. Their offer is blunt and direct: Six dollars a day straight wngcn to copper miners, and the ball players will have to earn the money, working eight honest hours h day; $S extra to ball players with games Saturday nnd Sunday. The jumps are mostly by automobile, automo-bile, nnd the population has gone wild over the game. |