Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-03 | Page 16 | Majors not to Draft Players

! mm hot ro Recommendation of Ease-ball Ease-ball Commission Adopted by Clubowners. Cl-riCAGO, Sept. . Club o ners of tin; : National and American b-aues will riot ; draft star players from the minor leagues ; this fall. This was decided tonight when the national na-tional baseball com in is.-: ion recommended thfit the privileges of the draft be suspended sus-pended lor 1019, because of the "uneer-lainty "uneer-lainty now existing" between the major and minor leagues of the country. The commission ruled, however, that the i major ieapue clubs be permitted to con tinue the purchase of players if suitable urran.emen ts could be maue with the minor league clubs. A. H. Tearney of Chlcapo, presitient of i! the Three Kye and Western leagues, who ;j led the fishl against tlie practice of the i; major leagues in drafting minor league talent, was elated with the action of the ' commission. Me was chairman of the committee which effected a break in re- ; Unions with the major leagues last win- I ter and the .subsequent abrogation of tin; national agreement. "The action means that the minor leagues will now bo able to build fences lor themselves instead of for the major :' leagues," Tearney said. 1 hlecause of the unprecedented demand for world's series sea is t his fall, the national na-tional baseball com mission today recom-' recom-' mended that the scries be increased to j nine frames instead of the usual seven, The proposal was sent tonight to the club owners of the American and XationaJ leagues for immediate, ratification, j Under tlie proposed plan, the rival clubs ; would share in the receipts of the first five games, instead of four, as in former 1 years, and tlie victorious team would have i to take five of the nine contests to wdn ! the world's championship. Heretofore, the championship was decided when one of ;( the clubs won four of the seven contests. The players would divide their uppers' upper-s' tioned share of tlie five games' receipts on it p 60 and 10 per cent basis, 60 per cent ' going to the winning club. i; August 1 terrnta nr., chairman of the commission, explai ned that the rceom-' rceom-' niendation was made for no other reason i than to benefit the public by permitting a j' la rger number of people to see at least one of the games. Although the Cincinnati Cincin-nati club has not clinched the National J ' league pennant, Chairman Herrmann, who 1 i also is president of the Reds, said he had received -9,000 applications for seats out-i out-i side of Cincinnati. Chairman Herrmann announced that days the territorial rights of the cities comprising the International league circuit cir-cuit in 1914 would not be respecied. The money is a part of funds loaned the organization to oppose the invasion of the Federal league. plans for the series would not be made until the pennant races are definitely decided. de-cided. A ghost of the Federal league fight was brought by the commission, which ruled that the old international league still is indebted to the commission to the extent of SS7U0. f The commission served- warning that unless this mohey was paid within thirty