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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.
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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.
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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.
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