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Show SUSPENSION OF RULE . WILL HELP MAJORS Limit of 25 Players Will Not Be Observed; Youngster Will Stick. . 1 3TEW YORK, May 2. Tho most im- l portanfc meanire that organized base- ball has yel taken against tho Federal j league is thc suspension this Season of ml tlie ironclad rule which compels all ma- II' jor league cluLs to reduce their pliiying if force to twenty-fivo men after May 15. If This season the major longue clubs may Ml' carry all the players they wish to. It While the national commission has jji'i made no special announcement on this action, all the club owners in both Igj leagues have como to a common under njjj standing that to turn their young play- It era looso would be to play rignt iuto mil tho hands of tho outlaws. Igj It will be possible, howevort for only Up tho most prosperous of the major league m club3 to keep their playors tnrougbout Ml the season. The tail-end teams cannot JjtjJ afford it. As it is, it will be a heavy ml financial burden on the richest of tho J clubs to carry the excess of playing tal- MCl ont. Many of them plan to do it, now- jjjjj over, just to keep the yonngtors from Ml listening to the tempting overtures of Jltj tho new league. ' JflJ This move on the part of the big jfjjj leagues is the first action to protect HI their reserve forces. While' the Fed- jjjtj erals nave threatened to organize minor (m lenguos of their own as furins for their Ifcj regular clubs organized baseball has IB not taken the scheme seriously hereto- lliij fore. This latest move means that tho IJfej majors are not only afraid of losing juj their regular players, but also the largo army ot youngsters who havo been llM, trnining in the south. The Giants will probably retain their fiffl ! squad of thirty-live men for some time. jftr Tt was rumored thnt Thorpe and Buunv Hoarn would go to Toronto, but this was J&1. denied by Manager McGraw, who stated JCj vostcrday that none of the plaj-ers had Im been released. Under the new rule, it is f doubtful if any player of any promise IjSJ ' at all -will go back even to the cluss AA IjEr" league this year, as waivers must first llfcj ' be obtained from all the National and f I - American league club3 before thc class Jlpj : AA leagues nave a chance to bid for them. juj 1 Tho rumor of Thorpe going to Toron- (f SI to has already aroused several major league managers, who have boon making f jJ inquiries why they had not been nskcu 3 to waive on tho famous Indian. Tho () major leagues have determined to hold all tho players they have, now and old, iU even though it mcniiB a largo additional It B expense. Jfj iJrooklyn and the Yankees also havo Iu sevoral young plaj'crs who will bo car- Ha ried during the season. The Yankees f in will tako advautngc of tho suspension jlj of the player limit rule, and while they H will got rid of some of the j'oungstors Jjjj who havo not como up to expectations, j Scout Arthur Irwin will soon round up iffi more substitute players to protect the IS ' Yanks in case of accident. Infiolders jl are needed, and it is expected that scv- ,1 . eral now men will be added to thu 111. Yankees' ranks in tho near future. Ir- la win has already made several unstic- i 111 j ccssful trips among tho othor clubs iu t'jn search of infielder.. Chance considers ' m himsolf fortunato in having young in- M fielders who aro ablo to hit. 1 , Tho suspension of tho player limit i i rulo will como as a big surprise to tho f Federals, because several weeks ago B . I President Gilnioro Jaid plnns to sign fj v; several promising youngsters ns soon as I j thqy were relcnsed by the major league clubs, in the south. Scouts visited all the southern camps nnd talked to the ! " young players, but could do no "business with them because they wero under probationary pro-bationary contracts. , , By holding all thoir promising to- ' ' . emits through the season, major lenguo club ownors think that it will block tho Federal league plan and place them at . f' a disadvantage. f |