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Show SHAKE UP IN THE UNION LEAGUE Because It is the belief of the Union Un-ion association officials that Salt Lake., Great Falls and Missoula are running far over tho salary limit )n the management of their baseball teams. It Is alleged that President Lucas Lu-cas and a majority of the directors of the league will hold a meeting at some city In Montana within the next ten days for the purpose of conducting conduct-ing an investigation. It is not altogether alto-gether improbable, according to local baseball mon, that Great Falls will lose eight of her best players If the directors get at the matter effectually. effectual-ly. The salary limit of each team is $1,650, aside from the pay the manager mana-ger receives, and he may receive any amount the club sees fit to pay him, whethor he plays In the games or not But the actual outlay for players is not supposed to run over $1,G50, and yui il is unused iiiui uie ureal rails payroll must run close to ?3,000 Thero aro several reasons for believing- that the teams in question aro exceeding their authority For Instance, In-stance, MIsse, the Great Falls shortstop, short-stop, laughed at Dick Cooley, the Salt Lako manager, for offering him $175 a month to play with Salt Lako According Ac-cording to Mlsse's contract, It is claimed, he Is only drawing $125 a month It Is claimed that Toner refused re-fused $200 a month recently, and yet ho appears to be getting $100 a month. Many instances of a similar natmc could be cited, and the Union association asso-ciation managers who are keeping within the limit are justly lnconsod over the stato of affairs. They arc living up to the rules laid down by the officials of the league and at the same timo taking the blame for not having teams that can wallop the teams that are spiked from homo-plate homo-plate to centor flold with high-salaried players. In the opinion of tho officials the Ogden, Butto and Helena teams aro well within tho salary limit. Thero is a rule providing for a meeting meet-ing of tho board of directors of th-j Union association twenty days nftor the beginning of tho season, and It is probable that the meeting will bo held some time next week. At that time the salary limit will probably bo thoroughly thor-oughly investigated. 00 |