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Show iPLAYEB HIT TOO low, mwm Giant Leader Points Out That American League Has Advantage. NFW Vi.iP.K, Dec. P. Famry Dreyfus of 1 he Pittsburg Pirates is the only owner own-er in the National league who wdl vote for the twrnty-ene-player rule at the Micoting of the National league in New York Monday. A year's trial has convinced all the other oth-er owners that the ruie is a failure. Managers Man-agers ha c been coin pi a mum t ha t I heir te,:n-.s were hurt by not having a sui'ii-eient sui'ii-eient nuti'.i'er of nlaers. 1 l is pointed out thai additional pl.tyers are needed m .ase ol accidents, and then managers also like u have young laeis on the bench to develop. The Piooklyn Poduers suffered under the handicap in placing for the world's championship, managers say, because their opponents had more men lo use in ease ot emergency. The only advantage to the rule is the fact lliat it cuts down the 1 ayroil. and this advantage is so small that the owners have about trade up their minds to hdl the obnoxious regulation at their annual meeting. Manager John .1. Meilraw of the Giants will center his fire on the low roster limit of National b.igue clubs. McGraw always has maintained an inconspicuous p;trt in the weighty detibeiations of the Tener circuit. cir-cuit. Hempstead Will Speak. Hut for the fact that the board of directors di-rectors intends to question hini on his utterances ut-terances and behavior in u certain game that gave Brooklyn the I'.'ltf championship. champion-ship. U'.e Little Napoleon would probably be in Cuba ui this moment. McGraw is not likely to take any part in the big pow-wow. Put his views have been impressed on Marry N. Hempstead, . and Hempstead is prepared to go the limit to see his manager safely through. "The roster limit of the National league is a very severe handicap in the world's series." said McGraw a day or two ago. "I'm opposed to?'!t. H simply plays into the hands of Ban Johnson and his associates. asso-ciates. We managers of the National league are allowed through the most important im-portant stretch of the pennant struggle to carry only twenty-one players. During that lime the American league clubs may retain for active service twenty-five men each. That gives the rival league more than 20 per cent advantage. "I think I have been fairly successful since I took hold of the New York team. I have my own notions, and I am willing to stand or fall by them. One conviction of mine is that young players must be educated from the bench. 1 believe 1 can do more good by keeping a youngster young-ster under my personal observation for one year so far as his value to me ia concerned than anybody else can do In two or three. Hack Is Mentioned. "You fellows." smiled Mae, "all rode me pretty hard for keeping Kerdic tichupp on the bench for four seutons. You slammed me for not turning him out in the minor league pastures. Well, 1 figured fig-ured Sehupp of a temperament that needed need-ed nursing. It would have ruincd'him to send him down. 1 had faith in him. 1 was willing to spend years in cultivating cultivat-ing him as 1 thought best. You'll agree I have a real southpaw for my pains. "Everyone was giving Connie Mack tho horse laugh last year," McGraw continued. con-tinued. "But at last he got soniet hing out of his 'schoolboys.' He'll be laughing at a few of his rivals bet ore another season sea-son closes. Connie was willing to sacrifice sacri-fice a reason in order to cultivate a lot ot green material. "That is why I claim the National league is nearsighted in clinging to Its twenly-one-player roster limit. It doesn't, give a manager any leeway to keep for persona,! ins t ruction young pin vers who easily might be educated into stars within with-in a season or two. These must be turned back on the mercy of minor league instructors. in-structors. As often as not they are spoiled. "To win a pennant a minor league manager man-ager would put a natural third baseman at first or in the outfield to gain an advantage. ad-vantage. I might name a score of promising prom-ising young players ruined absolutely because be-cause minor league managers to whom 1 passed them disregarded my wishes In their schooling. "The sporting public of thin country wishes to see tiny blue- ribbon decided in absolute fairness. Such is impossible so long as the Tener circuit persists In handicapping han-dicapping itself." |