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Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, July 29, Here's a Happy Idea Salaries of Athletes ' I 'H E Y riA Y /N ft POU K * B PS AGAINST H IM AIN'T G * * \ - BLIN.' -rue WAY I UN0BHÍTMÍ9 ( s A m BLHM, V STAND SOME SLIGHT LWA aic C OP WINNING !** NANCY “ W A IT M is e . »’IX CO IN , T U A N A N O <»CT ÉN O U frH FO R B O T H a s h o w ON THE CHARM OP U $ TO /*» By Ernie Bushmiller. were talking about the * money a professional athlete could make, and how much moat of these athletes were worth. In the first place, among eight or ten old-time writers, in the discus sion it wag generally voted that the ring business was the most lopsid ed. This means that a few were far overpaid and the others were far underpaid. For example, Joe Louis has bowled over close to four million dollars for his 62 ________ fights. Now four million dollars is quite a chunk more than any other contestant c o u ld c o l l e c t from any other game. A bove th a t we’ll say Louis p i c k e d up 3 50 thousand dollars for his last fight. Babe Ruth That is about the pay that 10 of the highest-paid ballplayers would get for an entire season of 154 games. But after all, the fight cham pion collects because he can draw. When two ball clubs meet there may be 50 ball players engaged. When fighters meet, only two in the main event get any real money, and one of these gets most of It. After all, a con testant is entitled to get his part of the swag which his drawing power can earn. Babe Ruth was paid as high as $80,000 a year. He was actually worth more than double this amount to his team, the league and base ball in general. It would be hard to measure how much he actually earned. I ’ve seen home teams drawing 1.500 a game jump to 33,- 000 when the Babe came along. Few Get Rich But, while Jack Dempsey, Louis and Gene Tunney have all collected huge amounts, and a few others have picked up important checks from the fight game, the vast ma jority get little except queer noises in their skulls. It ’s a tough game, if you make good. I t ’s a thousand times tougher when you don’t. Commissioner Eddie Eagen tells me there are more boxers than one might think who are putting away from $50,000 to $60,000 a year. This Is amaz ing when you figure the cut the manager and his helpers get. The fight game is good only to the few. For the others it is large ly a m atter of scrambled brains. It is not a profession to be recom mended too highly to the youth of the land. Baseball and football are the two best average paying games, espe cially in the higher circuits. Oddly enough, more than a few young stars who dabble in both sports have to make certain drastic decisions. Alvin Dark of the Braves was of fered more to play football than he gets playing baseball. Dark picked baseball and the Braves. Charley Trippi tried out both games, and this season the ex- Georgia star decided to give all his time to the Chicago Cardinals, leaving baseball flat. He found the combination too much to handle. Chuck Conerly of Mississippi and Bobby Layne of Texas were two baseball stars. Both had bright baseball futures. Both picked foot ball with the high guarantees now offered. Years ago, Walter Hagen could have been a noted big league star —one of the greatest in the game. Hagen picked golf and then pro ceeded to roll up a million dollars in a few years—which the carefree Haig promptly spent. Joe Gordon was an Oregon great at football before he switched en tirely to baseball. Torgerson of the Braves was another football star who picked baseball for a money maker. There are many others I could mention. The b ird design—m ost popular new idea fo r c h a ir sets! M ake these g raceful bluebirds in easy pine apple design crochet—th e y’re so s m a rt! B luebird c h a ir set—a g raceful touch fo r any room . P a ttern 656 has crochet directions fo r set. L a u ra W heeler’s new, im proved pattern m akes needlework so sim ple w ith its charts, photos, concise directions. Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. JSI W Randolph St. Chicago SO, Hl. Enclose 20 cents (or pattern. No________________ N a m e _________________________ Address. <*- <*• O- f*- <*- O» O- O- O- <v- gx. gw. gw. <v. gw. gw. gw. gw. ? ? ? ? ** ASK ME ANOTHER j A General Quiz — ? <v-<^-<v-f'-c‘-r^-<'-r^-ft-<'~<<-fw-gv-gv.gw.fw.fw.gw.gw. THE QUESTIONS 1. How many matches can be made from a pine tree? 2. How many doughnuts are eat en in this country every year? 3. W hat is the largest printing plant in the world? 4. W hat color will keep flies away ? 5. W hat is the only insect capa ble of fertilizing clover? 6. WTiat states does now allow divorce ? THE ANSWERS 1. Not all the tree Is made into matches. Average pine yields over 300 board feet of lumber plus enough plank to make a million matches. 2. Over seven billion. 3. The U. S. Government Print ing office, Washington D. C. 4. Blue, according to some ex perts. 5. The bumble-bee. 6. South Carolina. Farm Fire Protection Department of agriculture esti mates that the damage caused by gasoline and kerosene fires costs American farmers approximately six million dollars annually. Incor rect storage of these liquids is re sponsible for the loss. Underground tanks provide the best protection for large amounts of flammable liquids, while galvanized steel gas or oil cans are best for small amounts. ■ STUFF/NOSTRILS ?y I QUICK REUEF WITH MENTNOLATUM Ballplayers Last Longer One thing to be remembered is that one lasts longer, on a general average, at baseball than he does at football. The wear and tear isn't so expensive. A big league ballplayer with any particular m erit should be good for 12 or 14 years. Few football players last that long. The M el Heins, Sammy Baughs and Sid Luckmans are scarce. Bob Feller leads both leagues in the way of a pay check at some thing like $85,000 a year, which, so far this dizzy year. Rapid Robert hasn’t come close to earning. Ted Williams is next, and Joe Di- Maggio Is third. They get from $60,- 000 to $75,000 and are earning it ev ery day as two of the leading stars. Stan Musial gets nothing like these amounts, although the Cardinal bril liant is worth as much as any man in the game. There will be a big reshifting of values next year—up and down. Musial is drawing something like $32,000 this season, but at his pres ent pace if he isn’t a $60,000 entry they have no ballplayers in the Na tional league. 38% BRIGHTER TEETH in 7 days! CALOX T°O T H POW DE p A McKBSSON * BOBBINS PRODUCT
