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Show BANQUET FOR HOMEJOMERS Week of Baseball Frenzy Closes With Blow-out for World Tourists. 300 TO HONOR PLAYERS Federal League Players Set High Salary Mark Teams Begin Training. New York, N. Y., March 7 The banquet tonight at which the White Sox and the Giants will be the guests of honor will close the week of baseball base-ball frenzy that has reigned in New York Tomorrow or Monday, Manager Mana-ger McGraw plans to leave with his tourist players for Marlin and Owner Comiskey and the White Sox will stnrt for the west to join other members mem-bers of the team already In training. Federal league officials, who failed to sign a player in yesterday's rush but whose activity served to establish a new high mark for salaries, alsc will leave town, ' . The salary Tris Speaker is to receive re-ceive from the Boston American league club was today the subject of much speculation. It is understood that Speaker's contract calls for an annual salary of $16,000 or $18,000 and in addition to this he got a $5000 bonus for signing. Speaker Tops All Salaries. This record price tops all salaries ever paid In the history of the national na-tional game. Joe Tinker has a contract con-tract with the Federal league which calls for $37,000 on a three-year contract. con-tract. Mordecai Brown also will get a big salary Trom the same league and Oito Knabe will receive almost a3 much with the Baltimore outlaws. Ev-ers' Ev-ers' salary with the Boston Nationals Nation-als Is $10,000 a year, and it is stated that Mathewson's new contract with ; tho Giants provides for a salary of at least $15,000 a year. Ty Cobb re- ! ceives a like amount from Detroit. i |