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Show H I PEACE IN BASEBALL, SPEAKER'S JUICY I H J SALARY OF $15,000 IS TO BE REDUCED H ! ' .,1jmmmi I llt? !f si S& &rHK B i (Tris Speaker; arion picture shows him making Boston's only run in first 1 j world's series gome, October, 1915. H Boston, Jan. 4. (Special) It H lias coine. Star ballplayers have H , been trembling in their shoes since H the peace pact between the Na- H ! tional and American leagues and H ihc Federals has been ratified lest H 1heir liigh salaries -would bo lopp- H cd off. And they 'had reason to H . fear if a well founded report or- H ' iginating here bears the truth it H 'seems to. g H Tris Speaker will be the first to H i liave his salary cut down. The Hi, salary of fifteen thousand simo- H: leons, which went to him in pay H, ! checks in exchange for helping K' JMi. Lannin win pennants and H' ; world championships for the Red B ; Sox, is a tiling of the past, accord- Hj j ing to 1he report circulated here. 1 j Just how much Speaker's salary H i will be but has not been mention- H' ed in connection with the report, H .which is not a formal statement H issued bj1- the club, but is rather h a well defined bit of gossip that B ! comes from the Red Sox head- B j quarters. B : Speaker's friends here arc of M ! the opinion, that he made a sad H ' mistake when, he left for his home B ' after the world without the forma- m lity of signing a new contract at m i the old figures. At that time '1 there were no signs of peace be- B , -vveen organized ball and the Feds., and Mr. Lannin was in the throes of the joy he experienced when the Red Sox trimmed Pat Moran's Phils and won the world title and a big slice of coin of the realm for owners as well as players, 'here is hardly any doubt, Speaker's friends declare, that had he signed a new contract then his boss would have been tickled to death to make it at the old figures. But despite the fact that his salary sa-lary is to be reduced, Speaker will undoubtedly be seen Cavorting around in. center field with the world championships this coining season, and cutting down his and banging in runs with the same gusto as of yore. Indeed, it is pointed out, where could he go now that there no longer in a Federal Fed-eral league to offer fafulous salaries sal-aries to underpaid and overworked overwork-ed ball players. The cut in salary which is ru-mored ru-mored to be an unwelcome New Tear's gift for Speaker is thought to be but the forerunner of many other cuts on the part of baseball magnates who will now begin a period of rigid retrenchment retrench-ment for their enforced expendi-lures expendi-lures during the recent baseball wa r. Truly, the New Year finds ball players as a. class veiy much on the anxious bench. |
