Show w would ever havo have thought a FE i 1 few years ago that the oie time lime would come when pro golfers would head th 11 epack at al the pay paycheck check heck window but this strange event has taken place byron nelson finished 1845 1943 beyond the mark while ho gan and snead were somewhere in the neighborhood of and I 1 doubt there was any ball player last season hank greenberg came back at his old salary around but hank haink only played half tho the campaign dicag glo another high priced stai get in at all such stars as marty marion and the cooper tr brothers others wore were in the class I 1 dont know how byron nelson much hal ha 1 Mew hous er and dizzy trout pulled in but I 1 doubt that it was over if that much but there was no ball player who made anything like the amount byron nelson made from competition and this include his income from other sources few professional football prayers draw as much as a season before the new league barged barged in anything from to a game was good pay tor for all except such outstanding stars as sammy bough baugh sid luckman and don hutson players will profit I 1 it will of cour course sebe be different with the now new all america conference league shopping in the market the arrival of the now new league will be tough on the bank accounts of club owners in both circuits but it will be a big financial har harvest vest to the jhb football players for a while anyway for example I 1 know of two or three stars now under contract to the he now new league who in addition to healthy bonuses bonucci are to ge get 1 a year and paul brown tile the ex ohio state coach now with cleveland his has a longtime long lony time contract at A year but paul la Is a comoh coach not A competitor there will willbo ibe no pro football player making one fourth of what byron nelson gets in the two major baseball leagues tho the average pay is from to so taras faras the start stars go thero there will be a big jump next spring when greenberg eenberg Or dimaggio DiMagg lo gordon dick ey Wakefield and a fe will get from to big league payrolls will be far different in 1940 1946 than they were in 1045 where all attendance records were broken with rather cheap casts the th e bi big g P fight ight there will be one major malor exception as far as pay checks go this takes in joe louis arid and billy conn lous loula knocks over per cent orsome ot something better than a million douar dollar gate including all the side lin lines esThe the louis share will pass the mark but when the keen eager and albeit tax collectors get after him this amount will drop to less jess than conn Is supposed to get 1212 per cent centon of this all time record gate but cewill he will do bettor better than all right conn will at least move up into the I 1 bracket if the returns groin from ma motion pictures and television reach the figure many think they will those these amounts will be heavily increased but wh what atgood good will that do when one collides on an 80 or possibly aper 00 per cent ta tax assessment i louis louis li in supposed to owe the he government for or back taxes not including et a substantial amount lie he also owes alche jacobs joe will be lucky if 11 he over ever gets gels even gain again conn also owes quite a chunk and will also be struggling to get even an and d square with the world so dont waste wage too much envy on louis and conn some jockeys get rich when it comes down to the big money makers we still have to figure in jockeys such as E eddie addle arcaro aristed and ted atkinson to mention only a pair both must have passed the 0 mark this year there are others who are beyond the mark with their 10 per cent from big bil stakes and what about ar arnold id mirl kirkland dand the contract rider for or the maine chance stable with more than piled up in purses tell you you the baseball play er lasts longest in professional sport but when I 1 think efken of ken strong arnold herber and mel hein with their total ot of 57 years yeara in football footballer foot ballor dr sammy baugh and don hutson and others othera who have been doing well enough after 10 or I 1 12 2 years yeara I 1 beg begin to wonder lasted 20 years pop anson honus wagner ty cobb larry L daole and a few old time stars lasted from 20 to 24 years but these are the exceptions gene has carried on as a a winning golfer for over 20 years gene Is alboan also an exception there have been few to match flag hagen n and maybe byron Nel nelson and one or two others will but in the meanwhile nels nelson taking down from to a year need a au 11 thit that extra |