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Show ROOKIES DUE FOR THE GUILLOTINE GET DELAY OF LIMIT RULE IS SUSPENDED BK LEAGUE : ; 4 . - - Jimmie O'Connell and Hti Spikes Are in Bad With -League Again ' . By Steve Moloney Cutting- down time, which haa been Is th habit af eotnlng aa regularly a doea May day, on Mmy 1, cam end pa seed thia year -without the rluhoamere ar fan living It mora than passing; tvtthr. This year It waa antlralr dispensed wtia on May day, and tha data whan many V hopeful young aihlata gets hla bin rvhM out of tha leagu waa aaoved back is Jun 1, Tha ctubofners of tha Paclfle Coast Ira gue unanl moua I y d e Ided to uw nd from May to J una 1 tha rule limiting , eh club o twenty players. President WlUiaei H. MK'arthy haa Juat mad tha announcement from league headquarter at Ran Kranclaro. While th rule ha bean auapended, there 1 a gentleman's agreement, what ever that la In baseball, between lha club that no club aha l carry more than twenty-five matt until June I, whan th . league bylaw demand that thg club be cut to th limit of twenty. Tha u sponsion of the rula wee giked for bv tha Oakiand. Vernon and Portland Port-land club gnd ciileced In by aome of th other. A poll of th clubs ws take by telegraph and waa found favorable. Tha passing of the nil will give club-Owner club-Owner a bat tor chance to rea Use on their investment on ball pis vers. Often a player la a bit alow In rounding Into ehana and. must be released on tha first of May because of th playr limit. That oftan work a handicap on th owner, ' HURTS OVVNIRR, . . It haa been tha case many time that a player Is not showing enough on May 1 to le kept on tha payroll, yet he la an excellent prospect, lie l released he-cause he-cause of tha player rule, Joina another club, and In a abort time geta Into con dltlon to pJav, and turna aul a, ftna brand of baseball. In that eaae tha ol u how ner. who aup- , ported th player through tha training period, which la considerable expena, and carried him through tha flrat montrt of th on, geta nothing from his investment in-vestment but the marry rasberry, wMle some other club pick up hie find, caahea In on tha ma a and take all of um ' "candy." Aa (ha Rait tak club la already within with-in th plover limit, the rule didn't bother Boe Ian or Foreman Lwi. Lan voted a gal net tha astenaton of time aa ha figured that atnee ha had bean worry Ing about th May day maeeacr of contract, con-tract, and had chaeed within tha limit, th other clubowner should be able ta do th game, '. e a a O'Connell I. In Bad Again Kchoe of th Don Hrowa-JImmJa O'Connell Incident of 117 1 are bei tuj heard all over the bay district In California Cali-fornia a a result of a feud that has been atarted between members of the Oakland club and the ban Franc laos Scale, . , Tha trouble all started this year tha same as It did last year when the 75.A'a9 beauty, Jlmmte O'Connell. atarted getting fresh on the bases, according to report from Oakland. O'Connell waa caught oa baaag by Bay Bru bak er, a nd was as easy out. Then he deliberately knocked th ball out ef Brubakr's hands. O'Conje nell'g stunt nearly caused a fist At hi, snd, according to preea re porta, O'Connell O'Con-nell deserved a reprimand If ever any one did. President McCarthy wag g, ggas tator at th gam. Then, according to coaet reports, 0Ceev nell started a campaign of vicious baae eliding, coming Into the be see even when he waa certainly out, with hla aplkae IR the air. Bert Kill son and Charley fle are aleo aocuaed of Indulging tn the practice. prac-tice. They were aleo aocuaed of do lib erataly trying; to get Prenchy Lafayette, the Oak flrat earner. Then It was that lKa Brown, former fighting Bee. (old the whole dub that U didn't have any fight Hi It. a a e Don Brown Mess Is Recalled The unfortunate Iretidewt at Oak la ml recallg a similar awe la Baa PrancUma kmat year, when the eame Jlmmte IfCepeQ waa Involved. Jimmy, aocerdtng te the) Halt take player, waa out by eeven feet i at third, but caen abmnfl Int Don Brawn ! with big spikes out, cutting Hrwrrw need. Brown, If nothing else, ta a fighting foul, and be returned the coenpllmeat a anert time later by going: into flret baae the eame way. O'Connell ankle wae eplked, and aa a result he was compelled ta leave the game. President McCarthy waa a spectator at beih de ef th argument, . but he auapended only Rrowa, publicly reprimanded him and fined him ioo, a eort of partiality to which Oakland la now taking eareptloet. Then It waa that Brown offered to fight anyone ea the I in I club, but no one took Mm up. . e If McCarthy would reprimand and punish all players, regard lea af affiliations, affilia-tions, who enter into such -arajumsnLa, there would he fewer of them, |