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Show JONES NEVER SIGNED CONTRACT WITH BALL v:: ---- v-i ,v mltmmy :-'-:fi!:,:::-i Fielder Jones, who recently quit his job as manager of the St. Louis American Ameri-can league team, was one of the high-i high-i st-priced managers in base bull ; in f:iot, ranked second, perhaps, to John JleGraw of the Giants. When he came t.i St. Louis to manage the Federal 1 -ague club it was reported his salary was $15,000 per year. lie continued to draw this sum until the start of the current campaign, when he voluntarily : ccepted a reduction because of the war conditions confronting baseball. How ;.n;cii his salary was reduced i not known, but it is stated on re-1 re-1 able authority that It was cut to )'). Jones never signed a contract curing Hie four years or more he worked with Phil Ball. They worked together under a 'gentlemen's agreement." |