OCR Text |
Show I MINOR LEAGUES AGREE ON SALARYLIMIT SCALE S Cubs Want Hauser of Cardinals for ShortstoD and I Offer Three Cincinnati Players Who Will I Be Received for Joe Tinker. in Intcmatonal N'cws Service. mm TL -IL.WAUKI-:E. Wis., Nov. 13. Tho. I MS It ,onjr Pe,,,iln Question of a salary fill Vl ,,m,L for tl,e mlnor ,caPues was Sjnf -IVJL settled tonight, after a long and fug talkative session of the magnates & with tho adoption of the following ached-mWi ached-mWi tI,e pl team In each league: Wf.(A Class A league, 33500 a month. HtW Class B. $2300, except the Northwestern mil league, which by reason of Its size Is al- Mtm lowed the 53500 limit. I'M Class C, $1400. excluding managers. mm Class D. $1200. These amounts do not Include the sal-mim sal-mim Aries of the managers. If a manager also MvM holdn a playing position an arrangement Ruta can Ibo made whereby ho may be allowed 1'iiX a certain amount as a player and an ad-l(8l ad-l(8l dltlonal compensation as manager. IB Class AA Has Agreed. InsS 'I'ne clubs In class A A, the American as- IftnU soclatlou, Pacific Coast league and Intor- mMl national league, sent in a sealed report MU and It. Is underutood have agreed upon u ItwSd Mmlt, but as none of the representatives Hi of theso clubs were present when the re-KlM re-KlM ports were read, the amount of salary If 12 limit -was not mado public mi W 'no Ha'ary I'mlts were not announced ilS until after a long debate. A motion to f Iftfl make them public was adopted by a vote fbfj A motion was adopted providing that fin! the secretaries of all leagues report to the national secretary by' February 15, upon flip Individual players in their respective aK The question of penalties for violation lull of 11,0 ru'e WBS 31111 Pending when the III: session adjourned at 9 o'clock, but the IImi report of the committee lb likely to be Mi I adopted, hy which tho players are sus- 41 pended sixty days for receiving more than llt?H ,no limit, managers a fine of $100 and the Ilk 3 -Iubs a lino of $100 to $200. KSN The agreomont to limit the pay rolls tjjl was reached with comparative case, but NISI .t took nearly three hours of discussion lutfi! to decide to postpone until tomorrow the US Penalty phase of the committee report. IjlS Minor Deals Made. Hn A number of side deals were put till through during tho day, among tho moat BINS' Important being the announcement that inn! ' B111" Frlc, WM0 ,ias led the Columbus, club- through three seasons, had I Iff signed with George I.cnnon, owner of the IMI St. Paul American association team, as KlBI manager for next year. En Charlie Ferguson announced that he had n signed a contract with President John-MuM John-MuM Ron of tno Amorlcan league as umpire IB tov 33 w Ferguson was arbiter in the wV American association for three rears. Mm A. T, Baum, president of tho Pacific Coast league, today signed Garnett Bush as umpire. HQ Manager Holmes of Sioux City anil an-il nounced the acquisition of Pitcher Allen IK! of Momphlu. 3ji Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Ath- If tics, announced the sale of Pitcher Covaleski to Spokane. mm Commission Wants a Say. Ii Tho fight over the salary limit for mW "ib minor leagues started as soon as the MtSL tonventlon assembled this morning. The jBff farly session was devoted merely to the reading of tho report by the special com- Z3 mltlee and the light was taken up In car- jDEr nest late In the afternoon. JflH It Vr. Read of Columbus. O.. and mm Owner Justice of Rock Island submitted JIB the report on tho salary limit proposl- Jfif 'Ion, They were appointed a vear ago Hnu nt the San Antonio convrntion. JlD Among other things this committee made a recommendation that caused lots 19 f (1("scussIon anl son,e heated argu- 19 The committee,, recommended that a player who was found to be a party to an illegal contract should be suspended for HH "xty days. In addition the conspiring 1H manager and owner of the club should Ql suffer heavy fines. HIH 7no r,Mtional cornmlsHlon, of which fig Garry Herrmann of Cincinnati is chalr- Kji Jnan. wanted a word to say about the HlK salary limit In the minor leagues. After jlK President Sexton read the report of the HlK i nmmittee he read to the delegates a Nil ttcr from Mr. Herrmann In which the latter says ihai the national commission desires to approve of the salary limits placed upon minor league clubs. Of course, that means the men "higher up" still desire de-sire to dictate just u little as In what the minors shall do. Still, before the subject sub-ject ever reaches the national commission commis-sion the National association must approve ap-prove the new agreement. Tinker for Hauser. Charles W. Murphy and Manager John J. livers of the Chicago Cubs today aroused the Interest of the visiting magnates mag-nates and managers by trying to pull off the biggest baseball deal of the year. The Cub president and manager got Manager Miller Hugglns of the Cardinals into a corner and attempted lo take Arnold Ar-nold JIauser. his young shortstop, away from him. Muggins took the trade up with Mrs Helen Hathaway Britlon, the woman owner of the St. L.oula club, and she hus not been heard from as jet. Here Is the trade and the facts which led up to It: Tho Cubs need a shortstop. short-stop. Both President Murphy and Manager Man-ager Evcrs realize that Joe Tinker has gone so far that It Is likely he will go thu limit and that a successor must be found. Thev don't want to trade Joe Grant. Phelan and Mike Mitchell of tho RcdB unless they see where they can trade these fellows for a shortstop. There aro Just two shortstops In the National league that Murphy and Kvers are willing to take. Hauser Is one of them and Mike Doolan Is the other. The chances of getting Doolan aro remote. They have attempted to get Hauser They will give at least two of the men they get from Cincinnati and maybe all three of them for the St. LkjuIs player. If Hugglns Is willing to trade along these lines the deal with Garry Herrmann will I go through. Tinker will go to the Reds and be mado manager and the men secured se-cured from Cincinnati will be traded to St. Touls and Hauser come to the Cubs. But If this proposition Is rejected, then the Cubs stand willing to trade Tinker: to St. L.ouIb for Hauser. Hendricks Sticks to Denver. M. G. "Wotclla. a Chicago boy who played with Syracuse last season, was signed by Henry Berry of the Los Angeles An-geles club. Any time that Berry doesn't sign at least one ball player a day he figures he Is loafing on the Job. He has mado more trades than all the other magnates who havo attended the meeting. meet-ing. Jack Hendricks, who manages Denver in the summer and lives In Chicago during dur-ing the winter, gave proof that there aro some baseball contracts worth more than the paper they are written upon. George L.ennon. owner of the St. Paul club, offered Hendricks a three-year contract con-tract and an advance In salary If he would manage the Saints. Hendricks couldn't because his contract at Denver had another year to run. Omaha and Columbus are having a pretty fight for the honor of entertaining entertain-ing tiie next convention of minor leagues. Tf badges may he taken as a criterion, there should be quite a battle when the question of the 1013 meeting Is sellled. |