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Show MAJORS AND MINORS INCLINED TO RESUME FRIENDLY RELATIONS Special to The Trlbnne. CHICAGO, Oct. 23. Pleasant relations rela-tions between the major and minor leagues may be resumed at the annual meeting of the National Association of Professional Baseball Base-ball leagues, to be held in Springfield, Mass., November 11. This is the big gathering of all the baseball base-ball folks below the majors. Last year the little fellows met at Peoria, 111., and decided to withdraw from the national agreement. This declaration was followed by formal for-mal action at a joint meeting In New York last January, at which the majors said, but did not sign, an agreement to that effect, that they would respect the contract rights of the minors. They did so. Not Strictly Observed. But In spite of the rules of the minors themselves that they would take back no players on optional agreements to return re-turn them to the majors in the fall, some minor clubs did not comply fully with this clause. The White Sox yanked back some nine or ten players stored away for the summer in Minneapolis and the Western league. Oha-rles A. Comiskey Is exceedingly friendly with Joe Cantillon, boss of the I Minneapolis club, while Tip O'Neill, Com- 1 my's right-hand man, has extensive interests in-terests in the Western league. Jim Dunn, president of the Cleveland Indians, Is said to have indorsed notes for Clarence Rowland Row-land when the former White Sox boss purchased half the Milwaukee interests. Evade the Rules. And so it goes. A major owner wishes to place a youngster in the minors and sells him for cash: In the fall the favored minor magnate sells back the same player, also for cash, and the transaction appears legitimate. As a matter of fact, the player has been farmed in the same effect, if not the same manner, as in the days when farming was permitted. The draft was also abolished prior to last season. This deprived the smaller leagues of a chance of garnering many thousands of dollars which, in times past, often stood between profit and deficit. The minors are in good condition right now. Sixteen leagues finished last season, sea-son, and at least eight more are planned for 1920. At one time, in 1911, there were forty-six leagues represented at the meeting meet-ing of the National association in San Antonio. The Pacific Coast league has Indicated that it would favor returning to the old order and to restoration of the draft at a higher price than formerly prevailed. |