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Show CAL EWING HAS PLAN TO RESTORE FRIENDLY FEELINGJN BASEBALI Says Minors Need Majors; Proposes Five-Man Ni tional Commission; Thinks Draft Should Be Again Made Effective; Incidentally Remarks Re-marks That He Paid $5000 for Roy Grover, Which Shows CaFs Upward Tendency. Special to The Tribune. HICAGO, Nov. 6. J. Cal Ewing, president of the Oakland club of I the Pacific Coast league, is in Chi- J cago on his way east to attend the annual meeting Tuesday of the minor leagues in Springfield. Mass., loaded to the hilt to battle for the restoration resto-ration "of the law permitting the majors to draft players from the lower organizations. organ-izations. He opposed the abolishment of j the draft at the last session, but lost be- j cause the majority insisted that It be given a trial. It was tried last season. Ewing is of the opinion that draft belongs be-longs in the game and also that there should be one governing body in baseball. base-ball. When the majors and minors split last winter there was little work for the na-tlonl na-tlonl commission, as it had nothing to do ! with the cases outside the majors. i How the lower leagues are to fare in 1 their controversies will rot be decided I until they go into session Tuesday. It is believed they will have many lengthy debates de-bates that could be easily and efficiently handled by the commission in the summer. sum-mer. Besides this, the magnates are expected ex-pected to have a prolonged argument regarding re-garding the return of the draft as some are st:ll against It, and many favor it. Whether it returns remains to be seen. Cal for Harmony. "Baseball should be conducted harmoniously," har-moniously," said Ewing. "And ther is no reason why it can't be. The minors and majors can get along famously if they will stop to think and decide to be reasonable. I have never approved the way the game has been governed, and believe I have a solution for putting the game back on a sane and sound basis. "The minors have protested time and again because they have never had representation rep-resentation on the commission. They were entitled to It , and should have it now. Arrangements can be made easily by having the presidents of the majors, two representatives from the minors and a neutral chairman on the commission. When there is a case In the majors, to be decided, let the presidents and chairmen chair-men get together to settle; when a minor league matter comes up. let the minor league men and the chairman make the dec'slon and when a case arises in which major and minor league clubs are involved, in-volved, let the five men meet. American leagues I would take the a stand they did. A sum of $7) i high for a ball player of the class j leagues, who has not made good audi same applies to other classification! "What do the leagues profit bv i having the draft? Nothing. Then one or two players and many do not a ceed in getting rid of a single play Tr.e majors have scouts out and a what to buy. They are not going to fabulous prices for players who are i good prospects. "The thing comes back to the wu Major league clubs have had men on: over the country picking up players are not in the minor leagues. These o 1 them nothing and many of them deal I into good men. By doing that tbeyi 1 rive the smaller leagues of a dm to develop them. This last season a) ; I needed a ball player or two' to baft j up my club I could net get then 1ft I reasonable amount. The majors i prepared to make the minors pay i we car.': afford to do it. I got a b from Washington for S5000 with agreement that that club had then; to take a man from my team for - me amount. Was it done? Xoc oc y life. Minors Need Majors. " The minor leagues need the nsj and the sooner they make up their 2 to decide to find a suitable wort ; . - they win be. course. I do not mean to say the ca should take the worst of ft- They entitled to an ever, break and the aaj ought to be fair with them for the i fare of the game. I think they aw. i ins to be II approached properly byl who have had real baseball experts The commission, as I have outJtaBl installed, and in that 1 baseball would thrive more than ere Minor league magnates will be pas through Chicago on their way to qftj field tomorrow. Arrangements hare t made for s crowd of thera to towel Sunday evening at 5:50 o clock. Harr- - ; .-. .m' srvrv.r.f p rn has made plans for many nates to ride on that train. Al Teen president of the Western league, Bt taking care of his club owners and! thought the following will ba ftt train: Ed Hanlon of St. Joseph, J R' Pe- rio, Clarence Rowtaw Milwaukee. Jack Holland of OkkJ Citv. Bi Rourke of Omaha. Frank bell of Wichita. E. W. Pfckenoi Grand :.. - ds and Mike EeA Paul Kelley. it has been learnt, engaged to manage the Seattle cnl the Pacific Coast league. For Draft Restoration. 1 "I favor the renewal of the draft ar.d presume I will have to fight a lot of fellows to have it restored. I do not bin me the majors for not consenting to the increase in the purchase prices. If I were a club owner in the National or |
