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Show ! YOUNG BLflOD FOR GRA5TERS, IS II ORDER Four Players cn Each Club Must Not Have Had Full Year in Dou- j ble A.. ! . LIMIT ON TRAINING ! SEASON IS REMOVED Season Fixed at Thirty Weeks; Portland Opens at Salt Lake; Exhibitions Permitted in 1917. THE DAY'S WOF.K. Four of each club's eighteen men must to playoia who have never com-flletoci a lull season in class (3oiil;o A or higher. fjaisou opens April 3, closes October Oc-tober 23, thirty weeks. Portland at Salt Lake; Vernon at San Fian-cls;o; Fian-cls;o; O." Island at Los Angeles. Special permission given for exhibition ex-hibition games in 1017 only. Const league players must not par-ticlpr-.to in outisde games. Limit removed from length or training season. TyilC Pacific. Coast league directors jmt. in ii full day yesterday nrui then didn't Ret through. The day was filled with action, liko a brisk twenty -four honiM on tho Sonime. Tliero were n lot of important things juit through at yesterday's three ses-"' ses-"' tions. livery one of them was so im-I'uit.-tiit that it required hours of dis-iuHmi dis-iuHmi and deliberation. Of chief interest to the public is the rule adopti'd vestcrday regarding the uiake-up of the various clubs' of the league. Neither the salary limit nor the player limit was changed, but thero. was a mighty alteration concerning tho constitul ion of a club. Under the rule adopted yesterday, four of the eighteen players a club may carry an1 to bo players who have never completed a lull season in class AA baseball or in the majors. 'the rule, as ndopted, is a material modification of the idea first suggested. When ilio talk of injecting young blood itito the league first got foothold under un-der the skillful guidance of J. Cal Kw-ing Kw-ing of tho Oakland club, the plan was put forward that four of a chin's eighteen eight-een men should be players who had never been in higher than class B company. Want New Blood. Naturally there was a wild cry against filling tho league with bushers four at a time, and when the magnates took up tho matter yesterday they conveniently con-veniently forgot about the cXiss B iden ami elevated the classification or! eligible eligi-ble players as indicated. The idea of the new rulo is twofold, la the first place, the magnates say they want to get new and young blood into the league. J n support oi this notion they point to the alleged fact that the bes't players in the league today are t he youngest players. There will, no doubt, be t; good many who accept that pciMt ion wit h considerable reservation. Anyhow, it' every one of the six clubs ef the Coast league is to have four bona tide youngsters there will be a total of twenty-four every year uuless the rule is changed. In three years t here would be seventy-two players in the 'oast leacue the most experienced of whom could show that ho had been phiving elas- AA baseball for two years. The other point made by1 the magnates is that theV rulo will ston the ' ' avalanche ava-lanche ' of old-timers ex-major leaguers who are going down. Then, too. it is contended, the presence of am- j bitious youngsters will lill the veterans' with pep, because the vets will have to: play their best to hold their own against j the young blood. It is incidentally j charged against some ot" tho ex -major i leaguers that they are inclined to play ! just gooil enough baseball tolget by.1 ! The theo'y of the new rule is that they will have to play at too speed at all! times if they hope to hold their jobs. ! Managers Have to Hustle. j Romo of tho Coast league managers ! will be pretty busy when it comes to building their clubs for 1917. for the ! new rule will affect them in vital places. Thus the veteran machine of the Angels will have to hustle around and get three youngsters to make up the required re-quired quartette, Charlie Jackson being, now the only Angel who comes within tho new law. T tarry Wolvcrton will I have to do likewise for his Seals, since dacinto Calvo is probably the only non-veteran non-veteran the Seal boss has. Vernon will have to get tho full total of four. The Oaks havo two wbo come within the plans and specifications in Tn fielder Muvnhy and Catcher C'allnn. Walt McCredie Mc-Credie of the Beavers will have to snare at least two, even if he keeps Catcher Dink O'Brien. The status of Outfielder Ken Williams may let him in, although Williams was ' up " before bp ioined the Beavers. Salt Tjake is probably ns well nIT as any of the other clubs, since it Mrendy has elic'bb's in Catcher "Rnrl Sheely and In fielder Gard Gislason. I Pitcher Chet Hoff may come within the I deadline, his qualifications depending ' on whether he played a full season in the International or not. Tf Roy Bliss comes through, as expected, the Saints will be in better shape than any of the other elub, providing, of course, that the rule is obeyed. Fixing the Penalty. The penally, for fooling with the player limit "is a fine ot $100 a day for" each day of violation. If any manager man-ager tries to slip over a player who doesn't come within the statute, the president may call ihe player ineligible, and then the' punishment would be com-mensuiate com-mensuiate with the" offense, although not definitely specified. President 'Baum, in discussing the matter, said common sense would govern gov-ern in appUing the new rule, and that do snap judgment would bo taken until managers had been given an opportunity to square their sails. j While the projected class B idea would have been painful, the new rule mav work out. Under the regulation, the" Southern and Western leagues are open to the Coasters. Since these are the leagues that offer the most inviting field for exploitation, a lot of young plavers mav be obtained from them. Tuder the original plan of class B distinction dis-tinction .both these leagues would have been closed. Lid Off Training Season. Another important act recorded yesterday yes-terday was the abrogation of the rule limiting the training season to three week?. Now the clubs can train as long as thev want to. Last year's three-week rule worked a great hardship hard-ship on the Salt Lake club, which tried to train at Modesto in the rain; and also on the Los Angeles club, which tried it on at Lake Klsinore under similarly sim-ilarly moist conditions. The three-weeks three-weeks plan was found wanting. A spo'-iat rule was adopted yesterday lifting the ban against exhibition games for ll'lT only. The obi rule was that there should be no exhibition games in Coast league parks prior to the opening of the Coast season, the theory being that exhibition cames detracted from the interest inob'eut to the opening cames of the regular season. A proviso fn the repealing act is that no exhibition exhibi-tion .nines shall be plaved later than one week prior to the opening -lay of the league season. It shovld be understood un-derstood that the old rule is still in effect, but that it has been suspended for the 1117 season. Games With Cubs. The action was taken on account of the t raining plans of the Chicago Na-tiorals. Na-tiorals. who are to put themselves in condition at Pasadena next spring. I' resident Powers of the Los A ngeles club remarked yesterday that he ex- (Continued on Following Page.) YOUNG BLOOD FDR ' " COm, HEW GRDER (Continued From Preceding Page.1 pected to have four games with the Cubs at Los Angeles. Judge McGredie thought the Beavers would arrange for a couple of games at Portland. Hen Berry of the Seals said there would also likely be games at San Francisco and Oakland. If Salt Lake trains at Las Vegas, New, as now appears possible, there may be a couple of games for the Saints and the Cubs. ! The league magnates yesterday put a stop to the practice of Coast league players taking part in games outside the league. In California it has been : the custom for so-called amateur and semi-pro clubs to hire a Coast league battery bat-tery for Saturday and Sunday games. Thfr managers have been powerless to stop this practice, because their protest would be met by the feeling on the part of the players that they were being deprived de-prived of a chance to make d. little side money. It is said that several Coast leagW pitchers suffered serious effects from working overtime in trolley leagues. President Powers of the Anffels invited in-vited the directors to meet at Los Angeles An-geles next year. Thirty-week Season. The night meeting was almost entirely entire-ly taken up with an effort to break a deadlock on the question of the length of the season. It was finally decided to play thirty weeks, as at present. The season will open April and close October Oc-tober 2S. No holiday dates were fixed tonight. Portland opens at Salt Lake, Vernon at San Francisco and Oakland at Los Angeles. Powers of Los Angeles. Darmody of Vernon and Murphy of "Salt Lake held out for a twenty-eight weeks' season, the other directors standing for thirty, the thirty -weekers finally winning. Henry Berry of San Francisco au thorized the announcement that, now that the length of season had been fixed, he would proceed with the construction of his new park. The meeting will resume this forenoon fore-noon at 10 o clock, when the schedule will be taken up. President Baum was in doubt as to whether the schedule could be completed today, and said that a later meeting might be necessary. Last i:ight the ladies of the visiting magnates were guests of the wives of the Salt Lake directors at a box party at the Orpheum. Mr. Darmody of tho Vernon club said last night he" could not at this time say whether he would exercise his option op-tion to purchase tho club or not. The option has until January 15 to run. He added that he would do nothing to stand in the way of Ed Maier 's desire if Maicr desired to continue in the league. |