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Show MINOR LEAGUERS LAf DOWN LAW Demand That Major Live Up to Agreement as to Draft of Players. NEW YOHK, A UK- S- nmandlnff that the major lcafrue live up to the ntrreement entered into which thu minors, at the conference con-ference In thie city lat January. David L. Fultz, president of the International league and epokesman for the minor association, as-sociation, stated today "we are not jfoliif to lose the fruits of the arrangement made last winter simply because the majors notr find that they made a bad bargain." Fultz, in a prepared statement, out lined the case of the minor baseball league.1. In part, as follows: "Although the minor leajruea of professional pro-fessional baseball have been the preat developers of pUylne talent, they huv nfiver received the financial reward which their Important position in the baseball world would justify. "This condition was unquesttonahly brought about to a larse extent by th draft rule, which permitted the major leagues to arbitrarily take from each minor leapuo club at the end of eai'h aenaon one or mote of Its playera at staled price for each classification. "In an endeavor to lessen the burden I of thin unTalr rule, the minor Icasois, nt I a meetliiK in New York, Jjinuary lrt, 1P19, 1 req neat en a revision tip wards of the draft prlcen, placlnR that for an AA I player at $7500, This romieot, Mr. Herrmann, Herr-mann, acting for th major leagues, at ' once denied. He said, Jiowever, that if the minor league cluha wished to do so they had the consent of the major leiKucs to withdraw from the nntloniil agreement and operate alone. This offer the minor leitfTues at once ftcceptefl. "The national association on the following follow-ing day drew up a tentative form of agreement agree-ment embodying the arrangements made at the Joint meeting. "The tentative agreement nub mltted to the national commisHlon but waa never Hljrned by thorn- "It appears that the Nationat lenRue. at lenst, has Rone on record an statins: that the agreement mode with the minor in January is a scrap of pnper and thnre is r clear Intimation that the majors expect ex-pect to ajrain draft mltior leatrue players. "For a sentimental reHMon many of ui were not in favor of dlsolvlnr thi na tlonal ftKreement but preferred an Equitable Equi-table rhanpe in.t-Rd. However, our plan ar already mentioned wan turned down by the national commission, and Die dls- ' Bolution, which they themnelves BUKKeHled, was agreed lo. "The lifting, of the drnft means n ad-vantftKe ad-vantftKe of at leant ttT&.OOO and poaMbly HOO.ooo to each one of the elans AA leagues." |