Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-03-23 | Page 10 | Ebbetts Would Pay Stars with New Ball System

Ebbetts Would Pay Stars With New Ball System Owner EbbettS, of the Brooklyn 1'odgers, favors a system for boosting the pay of his athletes according to the averages they make in a season'.", work. He would arrange some sort of sliding Schedule based on fielding averages, batting averages, runs scored scor-ed and games won by timely hlls, then advance or lop off the salary accordingly accord-ingly "The Squire of Flalhush" says he conceived the plan In respon- i" the tactics of players who always make their demands immediately after the Official averages are published "When a player has a poor or a mediocre season. sea-son. I notice he does not geek a boost in pay because his talking points hve been shot, v.ild Ebbetts. "But when he has come close to or lapded In the .300 circle he usually sends his con-1 con-1 1 u t back unsigned. EbbettS confesses he doe-- not know what the other magnates in the National Na-tional league would think of such a s hem.' hut he .I'-, la res he is tor I' and would be glad to arrange it and Present It at a league, meeting foi official of-ficial adoption. FA-cry memlwr of the Brooklyn team got a raise 'his sotlnp because they won the flag last treason, trea-son, but the Brooklyn magnate declared de-clared some of the advances were rcal-: rcal-: lv not earned.