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Show PEACE, NOT WAR, IS TO BE MOTTO, SAYS AMERICAN - LEAGUIS7PREXY Ban Johnson Has Plan to 1 Bring Prosperity to Majors Ma-jors and Minors and Present Pre-sent Break; Draft Stays CHICAGO. Not. 19. Peacs, not war. is to bo the motto of relations between the major and minor leagues, according to Ban Johnson, president of the American league. president Johnson, who has a plan aH worked oat which he aay will solve the trout)! of the minors and bring pros-pertty pros-pertty ts baMbait generally. In pita of ' the disorganisation caused by the war, expressed himself ss unalterably opposed op-posed to about. on of the draft. This atep was demanded by ths minors In their conference at Peoria. "Previous to the organisation of the Federal league, the majors paid the minors mi-nors a quarter of a million dollar a year on the averag for new player." Johnson said. "Ths controversy with the Federal league compelled a gradual retrenchment, from which the major league had not recovered when the European war began be-gan to be felt. In consequence the minors mi-nors could not exist with the chief source of their revenues cut off. If they are to resume, this source of Income must be restored. "1 am net one of tho who believe the minor league duo owners must gauge their finances according to their gate receipts alone. They are the great Incubators In-cubators of baseball and It- Is just that they be recompensed for the players they develop, particularly the small ciroulta "The absolute abolition of the draft, however, cannot be considered. In Justice to the players. A class D club owner, for Instance, might turn up a seoond Ty Cobb and sentence him for life to play In class t company by fixing so high a prlre off him that no major club owner could afford to take a chance on the youngster. It I essential to protect the player that some method be In f-rp by which ths youriKKer ran be assured of " advancing In his profession as fast as his ability entitle him to be." |