Show WALSH HIGH I PRICE FOR HIS WORK American League Twirler Not Signed By Chas Comiskey Big Ed Walsh signed his con contract contract tract yet et During breathing spells while coaching tho the Yalo Yale pitchers the White Sox So star announced tho the other day R that It would take tako to lure him back to the box for tor the Chicago I club The Tho chances arc are that ability to win ball games cames meant soy sev several SO I oral eral limes lime to tho the owner of ot tho the White Sox last year but does It follow that Walsh should bo be paid 7 O In the first fil t paco It would Woud wreck the ball club for tor every evel other player would go on strike In a holy mInute One player has hns to be paid In a certain proportion to what his hla team mates got geL selBy geLBy By paying the mOll men and Donlin in proportion to the amount of money mone they the draw through tho the gates the salary salan list Hat of the tho ball club would soon bo be away above aboe any all reasonable limit and a dub club owner be bo beable beable able to get a just return on the mono Invested Ineat d In hu fact be he would go broke Tho Thu public never nver has had hud a vory or clear c tir Idea Idoa of ot just what the tho ball play pla ers ens received rOC hod In 11 their envelopes on tho the let lat and of every month from Crom April until October Many think that every well wen known player guts gots at least 1 and that tho tle most m t famous alum rn draw doNn from Crom to And AndI I Y AI 4 p the publics sympathy has all boon been with the player or until very ver lately Thoro have hoe been so 30 many JUan phooey phoney holdouts lIla and threats to jump to the outlaw league by players who never i intended to do anything but jump Into the band wagon when the proper time lime came camo that the dear old public has I switched Its sympathy or quite a chunk of It tto to the club cub owners who havo have outgrown the position of or slave I owners and in human chat chattles ties tJ I Still others think the players arc are doing pretty well to drag down as much as for lor fo a season on cm tho the diamond If all the thc big league pay payrolls pa payrolls I u rolls were summed up tip and an aver vcr average a average age It would bo ho found that thal the tho I m players received about to 3 apiece for the six months work or play pla whichever way wa ono one happens II to look at al IL U Does seem like a pretty fair remuneration for a seasons work The Thc public is divided on that but probably there are arc as many who would say sa that th lh ft t tan an average of Is just I i How many man ball players pla would bo ho able to earn In other lines or of endeavor These There are some Momo but mighty might few ow Fielder Jones Is passing up a salary of oC to look after business Interests but business s inter interests I eats ests made mado possible hy by h judicious Jn ln of the money he earned clu asa as asa I Ia a ball player pla er Mike Donlin with his wife Mabel ilabel Hite Hila has ha been making 1000 a n week weel all nil winter but hul merely on the of or his iris baseball lalion tallon Take Tako away awny the baseball pop pOl popy earned on the We ball field anti and fow low of ol the players player pla could gather the shekels as bountifully as they ther do by b playing ball I |