Under the terms of his contract! with the Chicago Bears, "Red" is said: to be guaranteed $2,000 gold game with 10 per cent, additional on the first $5,000 taken in at the turnstiles, 20 per cent. on the second five and 40 per cent. on every! dollar above that. At the first game in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day. it was estimated that the capi house, in excess of 40,000 with regulation prices of $1 and $2—hundreds of seats were sold' for}
}$5 and speculators got as much '$25 apiece just before the game—brought in approximately $60,000. OF this "Red's" share was $20,000, Out of this, of course, he paid his manager whose contract with Grange is also said to be a very good one for him, but the Redhead's earnings for the 25 minutes play called for in his contract were' way up in five figures. The second game at Cubs Park, in Chicago, between the Bears and the' Colum: bus XI, which your correspondent witnessed in a well-nigh blinding snowstorm, likewise netted the youthful player several thousands of dollars.
Some idea of the hold which this young player has upon the imagina-tins of his hundreds of thousands of admirers may be gained from the fact that when he was kept out of the game for a rest in. the quarter, the crowd, while witnessing excellent football, was. not satisfied. They had not' come there to see a football game so much to see "Red" Grange play. He had furnished three or four real thrills in the first half, making sensational end runs and forward passes but the crowd, in a. frenzy, shouted for A noise that started like a buzzing of hornets swelled into a roar that formed itself into the demand Red ie last quarter, the red-haired hero returned to the snow-covered, playingefield, a tremendous shout went up, caps and hats were flung into the air, and) score-cards were torn up and flung, around in an excess of enthus ZAIN-DUK is abt Shanghai 'Through all the shouting and the fawning, "Red," it is said, has Kept his head.' So much so that when, after New York performance at the Polo Grounds, before several thousands of spectators (for which he received $36,000) he was presented with a moving picture contract giving him $300,- 000 gold for his appearance in one picture, he found the dotted line and signed on it quickly, before Dr, W.
Shallenberger, ' of the Arrow Pictures Corporation, an independent organization, could change his mind. On the same day the young Midas endorsed sweaters, "caps, shoes, dolls, tobacco and other pro: duets. For $12,000 according to the Associated Breas, he endorsed the sweater, for -§10,000 the doll, for $5,000 the shoes, The tobacco hho endorsed for a more $1,000 because he never has used tobacco, The football-financier is also re. ported to be the vice-president of 'a $50,000 Ohio corporation engaged in' the manufacture of a card game, representative of a football contest,
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