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Show FAT SALARIES TO BALL PLAYERS The salary list of the Giants in 1909 will bo in the neighborhood of $75,000, exclusive of McGraw, who is under-; stood to get $10,000 a season and a' .certain percentage of the club's prof-j its all of which he is worth. Salaries of players are personal matters between be-tween themselves and the clubs, but occasionally fans are able to get a line on what athletes are drawing. One of the best directories for this information is the annual report of the national commission, which posses on the disputes between players and clubs.- From these reports the fan can learn that a minor league player who has performed exceptionally, well in a class B organization, draws about $300 a month, or 31.800 a season. A pitcher like Malarkey, from the I.I.I, league, was carried on the New York payroll last summer at $200 a month i for sitting next to a water cooler, and 1 got $225 every 30 days for going into , action when he was with Buffalo. I Johnny Lush, the St. Louis south-' south-' paw. Is a $3,500 man, according to the national commission archives, and Pat Donovan, the deposed Brooklyn leader, lead-er, drew $9,000 per annum from St. ; Louis during the war times. At least he was supposed to get this, but part of it was paid in notes. Salarles in the big leagues for players play-ers range anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000. Managers who draw $10,000 a year are rare, McGraw and Chance being exceptions to the general rule, up to the close of last season. Hughey Jennings got only $3,600 the first season he piloted the Tigers to the pennant, but to tho credit of tho Detroit owners, Yaw key and Nav-In Nav-In canceled the two-year agroement Jennings had with them and boosted him $1,500 a season. At that, Jennings Jen-nings last season drew $1,000 less than did Clark Griffith when he was with the Highlanders. And Jennings won the pennant of the American league, while the Hilltoppers, when the Old Fox left hom, were making record tlmo toward the bottom a position thev eventually gained and maintained." |