Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-12-12 | Page 20 | 3 Big Minor Loops Plan to Challenge Majors for Supremacy

f i of to J B I G M t. t IN I I O I I RL L o L j I r O E t i p t S. S t f iMi PLAN L LA t A AN m l N Nr m I ie rJ r J Y 0 4 i 1 t ij J. J G CHALLENGE N NA I. I r A t r N tErN G- G E. E T Ar t 0 I R RS S l 0 F I t z I. I I t t T n Sf I t U 1 i P I E Eto r rf M AC I q r I r t DRAFT DISAGREEMENT SPLITS t UP BASEBALL Minor Minor Leagues Leagues' Plan Elan to Build Vp Circuits Pr Present ent M Major Loop Stand Standard rd j Jl By yI Herbert Ba Barker BarkeI ker NEW w YORK Sec 1 12 AP Def AP-Def- Def Definitely alienated froth from th tho majors I th tho three thre big minor leagues American Amer ican Association 1 International and nd Pacific Coast circuits hoped today to build their organizations to the tho point where they can cm challenge tho the baseball supremacy of or tho National and American 1011 Charles Charles' H ii Strub president of ot tho Sari San 1 Francisco club of ot tho the Pacific Coast league ut thinks thinks' the tho minors in three or four years can BO so develop their their- circuits as to compete on on equal terms with th tIm tho I two ho major leagues 1 L Tho The program that th the minors I must follow to achieve chIevo this this' Is isI I fourfold as ns Strub sees Bees It FINAL ARBITRATOR DECLARED NECESSITY First the tho minors must have e some somo sort NOrt of or court of ot final arbitration such as SUJ Is i represented now In tn the thc person of ot M. M I Landis high commissioner ot of ba baseball Secondly tho big bib minors must adopt t toward tho the smaller minors the tim the tho majors have In Iii tho the past in tho the way of ot leadership leadership leader lender ship and arid help I Thirdly duy tho the big biD minors must s BC that in order to protect their own Investments they hey mu must t otter offer fl- fl fi financial nn and arni l material assistance n to leagues ot of smaller classifications Fourth tho the minors particularly the tho class AA circuits must b build themselves up In tho the next three or four years to the tho point where th they can otter offer themselves to tho the public us as new major league circuits Strub pointed out that the three class AA organizations have a n far wider distribution than tho majors covering 15 as they do th the tho c country from Crom the tho east co coast t to the tho west 11 Ho ha believes that tho big minors s by k keeping th their lr stars In Instead tead of or selling them to tho majors can elm develop within a n few c ye years rs to leagues uP of major classification in fact lad if Jf not in name YOUNG STARS WOULD BE MISSED Ho added that it was his lis belief that the tho majors with their stars growing older and no longer re replaced replaced re re- replaced placed by youngsters who us used dc to como In steadily from tho class AA minors will have dropped BO so in standard of ot pia play that they will hot not hotbo bo be able ablo to with tho the class classA A J itA A teams who will in tho the meantime meantime mean mean- time Ume have e hun hung onto their stars and developed cle them Most ClUes cities represented in tho the three big minors ho went on on are plenty largo large large enough to support major league basebalL Ho hopes eventually c to secure worlds world's series recognition for or the three class AA organizations ns believing tIm the public will como come to demand it The Tho majors on tho the other hand perhaps will see seo to it 11 that certain cJ cIas class s AA leagues lenues are aro strengthened to AA standards and then select these circuits for developing their players Tho The majors still sUIl will wUl be beable able abid to draft players from the thel smaller minors Just as JS they have In the he past but tile the fact remain that most major bli pj pia lay ers have hao had to b have bavo vo the tho b of ot class AA competition bet they tho- were ready realy for the tho majors major J SPLIT FOLLOWS n AGREEMENT u The Tho wide open split lIt b between betti pg lb two groups came over th the tho QU of ot out put players In Ing and anti tho the price to bo ho paid foi o athletes selected In the tho draft Th ni majors wanted anted to bo be able tl to draft dmn pla players ers who had bar had four ws ear experience in tho the minors anywhere The class elMs AA A minors Insisted they be bo allowed to hold a a. player l cr three years cars r regardless of what minor league experience hI he ho Iia luj had 2 As for tho draft price th tho maj offered j been offered at th the tho recent Cler Clerland Clerland land l conference Th Tho big mb mizia f declined t to accept any sum cum l Ibi 1 than When hen tho conference reached in ig Impasse the tho big minors suggested that the matter bo be referred to Commissioner lAnd Landis Is for tor arb and decision but tho the ina r i league representatives turned down don this offer Most observers felt that a. a costly baseball war was In the makIs with both parties to th the tho dispute sure to suffer sutter financially through b in Increased crease ed d expenses t. t particularly In Inthe Inthe intile the tile price of playing talent Went There were no signs at all that either side would moyo move moo one inch from the positions they took at cor conference