Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1916 — BASEBALL SLAVES WHO ARE GETTING COIN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BASEBALL SLAVES WHO ARE GETTING COIN

“They sold me like a slave,” said Tris Speaker, the poor slave of baseball, when the 'Boston Red Sox sold him to the Cleveland Indians for the piffling price of JpIO.OOO, with a couple of players thrown in for good measure. Speaker wouldn’t sign with Boston for $9,000 a season. He is reported to be getting $12,000 at Cleveland. “What do the players"do with their money?" They invest it. they "buy good clothes with it; those without business Interests find plenty of time to spend it for entertainment during the winter months, and then of course there is the “missus.” Many of the players are married and so have the problem of getting rid of their coin solved for them. Tv Cobb, the Georgia peach, who has been dragging down a fat stipend from Detroit for ten years, owns so much property at Augusta, Ga., that soon he will be between the devil and the deep blue sea. He won’t know whether to play or stay home and tend to his knitting. But Cobb likes the game as well as the salary [and

probably will be around as long as his legs are limber and his batting eye keen. This spring his arrival in trailing camp was delayed because of the fire at Augusta, which destroyed so much of his holdings. J. Franklin Baker, the home run king, playing third for the Yankees after a year’s retirement, has put Tnurffloffrismoneylnte-good Maryland farm land and each winter retires to his own soil. Christy Mathewson .owns a fortune which makes him independent of managers ami everyone else. It has been amassed by careful investment of his baseball earnings. Then, too, because of his baseball fame, he has made money as a “writer.” Frank Chance, the Peerless Leader, manager of the Cubs in the days of Charles Webb Murphy and later manager of the Y'ankees, owns a fine fruit ranch at Glendora, Cal. The cail of baseball proved too strong, however, and this year he is back in the game as owner of the Los Angeles team In the Coast league.

PLAYERS WHO TAKE CARE OF THEIR MONEY.