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Show BUS HER RULE WILL DIE SPEEDY DEATH, SAYS TIGER CHIEF "Impossible to Get Buskers Fast Enough for the Coast League," Is Opinion of Firebrand Stovall, Who Predicts That Managers Will Ignore It After the x Season Starts. ' 1 Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, March 22. Declaring that the four-busher rule is impractical im-practical in a class A A league, Manager Stovall of the Tlgara pre-diceted pre-diceted today that the new law will be knocked out by the Pacific Coast league a momh li iter the season starts. "It will be impossible to get bushers fast enough for a ioast league club," said ytovall. "I understand all the managers are kicking about it and that they plan to ignore it after Die season starts." Neither Chance of the Angels nor Sto-I Sto-I vail of the Timers is particularly stuck on the four-bus her rule, so called. In res lit', this rule requires each club to carry four men who have never played a full season above class A. The Idea was to injer;. young Mood into the league and possihlv develnn a few stars. The rule is all right if a manager is fortunate enough to pick up the right kind of players; otherwise it works ;i hardship on him- When i hey juined the Coast league Terry, McMullen, Risberg, Guisto and other men who rapidly played their way into 1 he majors would have come under the four-busher rule, but that kind of birds don't arrive in droves each spring. The managers point out that they naturally natu-rally would carry all youngsters who are i'act enough for the league, a circumstance circum-stance which made the rule unnecessary. Vnder the present arrangement, th manager man-ager who is fortunate enough to develop a couple- of live ones is likely to win the flag. He will have a big advantage over the rival manager who fails to hatch a real player out of his entire setting of bushers. .Managers may feel that the new rule, in order to get a fair test, should have been promulgated a year in advance. As it is, the maiors stepped in and skimmed the. cream off the class A, B and C leagues and are now demanding high prices for those players. TnficMer Conifrey enlisted in the hospital hos-pital brigade today when he contracted n Charlev-horse. Second Easeman Mc-Larry Mc-Larry is still suffering from a torn shoulder shoul-der muscle. I The Tigers were sent through a hard practice this mnrning and Captain Griggs led his Yannigans against the Regulars in the afternoon. A nine-inning game was played. crAfC 11 If J TAWnir IN CUB FINAL TODAY SAN FANCISCO. March 22. Harry , "Wniverton's Steals, or the bulk of them, scheduled to start their second and final series with the Chicago Cubs at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Kwing field, re- turned today from Sacramento and worked out in the afternoon. All the boys are reported in good shape, save Fitzgerald, Fitzger-ald, who remained in Sacramento, and Biff Schaller, whose heels are giving him more or less trouble. The batting order for tomorrow is as follows: Calvo, right field; Ellis, left Held; Maisel, center field; Pick, third base; Downs, second base; Koerner, first base; Hollywood, shortstop; Baker, catcher; Steen or Kallio, pitcher. It is not likely that O'Doul will have a chance to pitch against the Cubs, but Indian Smith, according to plans, will be sent against the Chicago contingent for at least part of a game. Lefty Dougherty is due tomorrow in Sacramento. DUBUC BIFFS HOMER; SAINT ROOKIES WIN Special to The Tribune. PORTER VILLE, Cal., March 22. Jean Dubuc, who looks to figure well up in the list of Skipper Bill's heavers for the coming com-ing season, also promises to be among the first few hitters. Dubuc lifted a home run over the left-field fence in the practice prac-tice game this afternoon and contributed the winning run to the Yan victory over the Regulars by a score of 5 to 4. Dubuc worked the first five innings for the Yans, holding the veterans to four scattered hits. Hughes, who followed him, had all his old-time craft and held them to three. Bliss fared rather badly at the hands of the recruits, and they found his offerings for a total of six hits for four runs. Two boots each were charged to the teams, all of which can be charged to poor condition of the iniield this afternoon. COURTS MAY DECIDE BRANCH RICKEY CASE By International News. Service. I ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 22. "The national na-tional basebsdl commission will not per-inilt per-inilt Branch Rickey to violate his contract I with the Browns." ! Ban Johnson, president of the Ameri-jcan Ameri-jcan league, so declared in a telegram received re-ceived here today.. Johnson added, how- i w , inai la H.-110IM iiii.ftey win mane no departure from his "usual honorable dealings" in all matters. On the other hand, a message from August Herrmann, chairman of the national na-tional commission, expresses doubt of the commission's jurisdiction in Rickey's case. "The whole question depends," Herrmann Herr-mann writes, "on the exact kind of a contract Rickey was working under for the Browns whether it is a baseball contract, con-tract, making him amenable to national commission rules, or some sort of a con- j tract which would give us no jurisdic- I tion." ' Judge George Williams, Rickey's attorney, at-torney, w-as undisturbed by Ban Johnson's John-son's messase, , "The national commission will not ;pas9 on this matter until thev know what the facts are. And when they know what the facts are they will know what the contract was. This was no player's contract," said the attorney. Rickey's friends contend that he had two contracts with the Browns, one verbal ver-bal and one written. He quit the Browns under the stipulation of his verbal contract, con-tract, which they claim gave him permission per-mission to bettor his business position. Phil Ball, president of the Browns, continues to insist that the courts shall settle the controversy. Rickey, who has been connected with the Browns os manager and business manager for four years, recently was elected president and business manager of the Cardinals, under the latter's reorganization reorgan-ization pUtn. BEAVERS LABOR AT MARYSVILLE CAMP Special to The Tribune. MARYSVILLE, Cal., March 22. Reinforced Rein-forced by seven new players of more or less renown, the Portland Coast leaguers christened their second training cunip of tile spring here this afternoon while a slight hreezo swept the field. The sun wns out and the squad enjoyed a good skirmish. CHANCE VILL TAKE JACOBSON FROM CUBS Special t,o The Tribune. I LOS ANGELES. March !!?. To protect ' himself in the evnt that Ou'fiekb-r Red Killlifjr is not sold to the Ens Angles club by Columbus, Manager Chanm today wired the Chi'-ago Cubs and asked fur Outfielder Jacobson. Chance has one more playr coming from the Cubs in exchange for Horry Wol-tcr. Wol-tcr. and while he wonid prefer to have K'Hifer in his outfield, ho believes Ja-cobs'in Ja-cobs'in will ho able to fill a rcxular berth. "I must start my team at sknul practice prac-tice Mnndav. and I want the rnon who will begin the kcihoh In AneH uniforms tu s'ait. playing together," said Chance. (Coninucri on T?fi Snv?r.Vc-n BUSfiER RULE JOKE. . SMS TIGER CHIEF (Contpuad from Page Twelve.) Trm to get Klillfer. I want to know JSaturday, ?o I can start him with the ,a Xremamder of the club. Otherwise, I must protect myself by using Jacobsen." "The Angels reported at Washington park 'N.fV: ,llis mming and nearly 100 fans them step through thoir paces. |
