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Show SALARY LIMIT IS NOT PRACTICAL Portland. Ore., Oct. 2S. "Theoretically "Theoreti-cally a snlary limit is a mighty fino thing, but ns a practical working scheme for a baseball league I don't think it will ever prove satisfactory We have tried it In the Coast and tho Northwestern leagues and it has nov-er nov-er proved satisfactory. The fellow who yells the loudest for the fixing of a limit Is tho one who jumps over the traces at tho first opportunity." opportuni-ty." Such is the way W. W. McCredic, president of the Portland baseball club, of the Pacific Coast league, fcols toward the class AA movement to fix a $2,000 maximum salary for play- -A salary limit is a good thing for baseball, for the danger to tho game lies in the efforts continually to shove over the danger lino between profit and loss in an effort to secure a winning win-ning team. "However, I have always been opposed op-posed to tho plan, realizing its Impracticability. Im-practicability. I think that the salary limit should be consistent with the earning capacity of a club. If the limit Is govorned by the ability to earn, and not the exigencies of a league struggle, there would be no demand de-mand for changes " oo |