Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1912 — FLAYERS SAVE THEIR MONEY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FLAYERS SAVE THEIR MONEY

Diamond Artists of Present Keeping Their Money for Rainy Day— Clarke Has Quarter Million. Statistics said to- be reasonably accurate show that thirty-four old ball players died during 1911, and of this number only two left families in comfortable financial circumstances. Another text, of course, for a sermon on the happy-gorlucky ways of

the old-time players and the freedom with which they entertained their friends while they were In the height of their fame. No, not that Some truth in that, too, but there is another" side to this statement which is brightened by a silver lining and the fall of hope for the present generation. Players have learned to save their money. They receive better salaries, too, than in the old days, and with strict training methods, and in many instances good advice from club owners, the habit of saving has been instilled and the ball player can now retire with as much money as any salaried employe in the average business can save in a lifetime. Fred Clarke is worth a quarter nation and he’ is still playing. Frank Chance and dozens of other players can be named who have plenty of this world’s goods, and safely invested, too. When the present geen ration of ball players passes on and thirty-four of them, perchance, die in one year, there will be a different story to tell about mouths of fatherless children unfed. o*Vfmy Is Certainly in Bad. Mow they say that in case Hank O’Day fails to make good as manager of the Cincinnati Reds he can fall back op his ability as ,an umpire. There must be a whole iSt of consolstixmfln that foe Hank. One Job Is Just about as bad as the other.

Fred Clarke.