Clipping:Players jump to the UA for higher salaries
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| Date | Wednesday, November 14, 1883 |
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| Text | [reporting the players signed by the UA St. Louis club] These players are all to receive large salaries and considerable advance money. The two catchers [Rowe and Gross] are to get $2,600 a year each. Mullane and Reccius, $2,5000, and Taylor, Dickerson and Mansell, $2,200 each. Tony Mullane, who breaks from the reserve list of the St. Louis Club, is in luck as Von der Ahe will not have him blacklisted, having been conscientiously opposed to the reserve rule, but Gleason and Row will, no doubt, be blacklisted. Gleason says the reason he broke the reserve rule with Louisville is that the directors of that club wanted to reserve him at a salary of $1,000 for the season. Three thousand dollars were offered to Deasly, and Tom was about to jump at the bait, but his wife interfered, and the result was that Tom was signed by Von der Ahe for $2,500. he is now the highest salaried man in the St. Louis team. Henry V. Lucas, the president of the new club, is abroad and the engagements were nearly all made by him personally. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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