| Show THR SETTLEMENT She Terms Under Which the Baseball War Has Ended POINTS OF THE NEW AGREEMENT W L Harris Tells Wherein the New Regime Will Differ from the OldPlayers Fully Protected Tnc oapeball complications are now at an end and all parties interested in our great national game as it is played professionally profes-sionally are happy over the manner in whien the disputes have been settled As there is every reason to believe that they have been settled for many years to come S the admirers of the game have cause for congratulation Strife was ended and peace established by the final adoption of the SpaldingThurman plan of reconstruction reconstruc-tion The new agreement is a lengthy document docu-ment drawn up in legal phraseology containing con-taining about 3000 words I will try to make clear in a condensed form those features feat-ures of it which are not already generally known The principal one is the abolitio 11 of the old board of arbitration and the establishment estab-lishment a national board with such extensive ex-tensive powers as make italsiost omnipotent omnip-otent in baseball matters This board consists con-sists of three membersone each from the National league the American association and the Western association These members mem-bers are elected for five years but can be removed by a twothirds vote of the bodies I which elected them They receive 1500 yearly as salary They elect a chairman and secretary and such other officials as may be needed and decide tho compensation compensa-tion they arc to receive The chairman may be one of the three or an outsider In the latter event he has no vote Allen W Thurman of Columbus will be the first member from the American association and L C Krauthoff of Kansas City from the Western association The League member mem-ber will be either John I Rogers orc IT Byrne A G Mills will be offered the position of chairman and IT E Young will I 4 probably be chosen secretary and treasurer The board is to decide all disputes between be-tween clubs and players or managers and be the interpreter of the various clauses of the national agreement It will keep the records of the players in all the clubs parties par-ties to the agreement whether in major or minor leagues it will record all contracts and releases and promulgate the same supply any club at any time with the standing of any player interpret the playing play-ing rules and amend the same at its pleasure pleas-ure it may appoint official scorers and also appoint umpires and assign them for any association if requested in matters within its jurisdiction its decisions are to be final it may reinstate suspended players t play-ers it will have the exclusive control of minor leagues and many other privileges that make it a power indeed in the conduct of the inside affairs of baseball The expenses ex-penses of the board are drfrsyed by assessments assess-ments on the clubs and thelines and penalties penal-ties inflicted for transgress and violations viola-tions of the national agreement The board will classify all minor leagues fix the assessment to bii pjud by each specify spe-cify the salary limits for each and the limit of compensation to be paid umpire by each class It will also prescribe the amount of compensation to be paid 1o a club for any player it mar have who is taken by a club of a higher class In other words any club can require the services of any player in a grade under its own when it desires with the proviso that it cannot negotiate with a player of a Jower grade club during the playing season without the assent of the board and by paying the compensation fixed Between seasons they are at liberty to negotiate with any player in any club of a lower grade at will In every case howaver the player must be given an increase of salary and cannot even then be transferred without his free and full consent The provisions in regard to players are the fairest and most equitable ever yet agreed to by baseball rules and they do away with nearly all the features which players have heretofore considered offensive offen-sive The reserve rule remains in force as heretofore and players may be transferred from one club to another but no transfer can be made without the free and full consent con-sent of the player and at an advance in salary and the player is guaranteed protection pro-tection from any measures to make him sign where he has refused to go Any player can get his absolute release from the board should his club at any time be more than fifteen days in arrears to him for salary If when a club transfers its membership mem-bership from one association to another any player can show cause to satisfy the board that if he is transferred with the club he will be injured thereby he may obtain ob-tain his release Contracts by the major leagues may be made for any length of time desired but minor leagues will have to be governed on this subject by the board Whenever a club disbands or is expelled the players of that club are released from reservation but their services are subject to acceptance by any club in the same league for a period of ten days Each club in the major organizations organ-izations has the power to control and make its own regulations as to salary and discipline dis-cipline Any club in arrears of salary to a player which does not at once liquidate the same on the order of the board will be expelled The territorial limits of the major league clubs have been extended to five miles of the city or county in which the club is located The territorial limits of the minor leagues will be prescribed by the national board and the board will also make regulations governing the exchange of players between all classes of leagues and clubs fix the minimum salary in each and fix a uniform rate of compensation for players taken from them by higher class clubs These are in brief the most important changes made in the national agreement Under the final settlement the circuits I of the major leagues will be as follows Western Association The same as last J year National League Xew York Boston Bos-ton Philadelphia Brooklyn Chicago Pittsburg Cleveland and Cincinnati American Association Baltimore Philadelphia Phila-delphia Boston Washington Chicago St Louis Columbus and Louisville Under the terms of the settlement the Boston and Philadelphia clubs late Players league give up all their players to the clubs they originally came from The Boston club takes a new name in which Boston is not to appear is to charge fifty cents admission ad-mission and when it cannot get that tariff it agrees to quit the city Other hard conditions are also imposed and the same state of affairs applies to Chicago Toledo and Rochester got 8300 each to retire and Syracuse received 7000 The new club pay 53000 each for their franchises W I HARIIIS putting it in the Dottle tirst Arrah Id loike to take a peep at the stuff The distinguished looking druggist went back of the prescription counter put into the bottle two drops of oil of loses at a nickel a drop and brought it back to his Celtic customer She held the bottle up to the light and looked at it long and curiously curi-ously Seeing nothing she cautiously extracted ex-tracted the cork and took a deep whiff which caused a cherubic smile to spread over her ancient face Bedad sur she said it shmells moighty foine but looking suspiciously at the druggist where is itBrooklyn Life |
