Show I I STOVE LA U I 6 II I I from the joint minor and major league meetings in V New York REPORTS I after artez yesterday all I seem to indicate that the minors Vt got away with i iNo something No one really expected to see them successful In their s scheme to teme compel the majors to do away with the time honored draft I s system stem but they must have found the big in a good natured mood or they thy were so BO nn it-nn that shot they simply nut put It over I How the new national agreement will work worle out remains to be seen In substance the new arrangement of affairs simply means that the only the majors can now expect tie fro minors are those for tor whom t tJ cy y pay real money or such men who become free agents in the minors and anti seo see fit fit to cast their lot in the big show The majors can no longer draft a lot of ot young stars from the little fellows hold them during the training trip and then turn them over overto overto to some somo working agreement club perhaps to a rival club in the same league from which the young star tar I came I I I i i I I I I I There here are hl thies Ss S's s t U b favor of and against the old oM draft eye eye- tem tern The young minor leaguers will vill argue that their chances of oC advancing to the big tent will be mighty slim row POW rowand and that they will have hav to pond j-pond en en- upon the notion of the minor minori league luague uc club owner to whom they b belong long 1 IE other words a club owner might hold them ur up for such a high price that no big bIg- league would ever bid for them under the old system u II major league g club U could lay claim to t them forthe for lor the t draft price and e even olt ml K it It did r J not r retain the player the very eri transaction would give him an opportunity to de demand demand de de- mand n more salary In the future by reason rea rca I son of f his se big l league u e experience reen Against the draft the minor league club owners have advanced this argument argo- argo ment t he of et of t the C Angels Angels An An- gels 1 And ODoul D of the tho Seals al 3 are good d dand and recent examples We Ve develop a I cracking good young player he remains with us just long enough to become becom a acard acard acard card and then the big league clubs Unwilling unwilling unwilling un un- willing to pay lay us the four or five thousand thousand thou thou- sand dollars he is really worth put in drafts for him Mm and the lucky club draws the young star atar for the draft price which in the Coast league leaSIe Is 2500 Here is still another argument against t the draft Big league clubs not only take uk away awny the minor league stars often before these stars can be of any value I whatever wh to the club which took the time and spent the money to I him To make matters worse they are very apt to turn right around and hand him hint to a rival club The case of ot Paul J Fittery is an example of the latter Philadelphia drafted him from Salt Lake used him for a short time Ume and then Red lied Induced his on th the tho Phillies Phil Phil- lies Hes to turn him over to Los Angeles Salt Lake received 2590 tor Fittery but it hadn't a chance on earth to buy an another another an an- other Paul Fittery when it needed such suh sucha a man badly bailly for ter anything short of 1 for the simple reason that the he big I leagues are not letting loose of good pitchers tc for anything lin like j OO The San Fran Francisco Frandisco ls Examiner carries I this story Cleveland Is said to be ang ang- I ling for Lefty Leverenz who vho Is now at the Letterman hospital and will re revert revert re- re I vert to Salt La Lake e as soon as he Is discharged discharged dis dis- dis- dis charged from the service Lefty had a whirl with the St. St Louis Browns Drowns but was not a howling success However since his return here he has been one of ot the most consistent winners in the tho Coast league and i It is general opinion that many a pitcher with less ability than he is getting by In the big brush S C I Swell chance to jar Bill Lane loose from m a a. first class pitcher like Walter Valler I k Leverenz The he Bee Is ls In ln the n market mar- mar ket t i to in buy v a few like Y the he crack southpaw south south- paw ir himself Yes Yel fine chance turn chance turn hint him over to Cleveland Vlana and then the some bright Tuesday afternoon find the same lefty pitching for or Walter alter McCredie C C s s Dill ROdgers Sacramento's manager has quit his hia winter peppery job ot of trac- trac lor br r el salesman a and d is devoting all of his ga time to b lining g up his club 1 Bill has almost al- al most an entire CUb club to start with Even Art GrIga s and Babe whom both of oC finished the 1918 season In big league uniforms will will b be back I I I Walter McCredie's McCredie official notification tion to the Salt Lake club that Portland expects the flees Bees to turn back to It tt Players Play Play- ers era Siglin Farmer Falmer and Penner sounds O. O K but Mac may run into a n snag when It comes to taking Penner Aeh Ac Ae- cording h l to the l official ll promulgation AcI By ry which ol Penner e came a to this league Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land turns Player Penner over oser to the Salt Lake club C S C Cal Ewing has announced that while Del Howard will again manage the tho Oaks Rod 1105 Murphy l t the e clubs club's third baseman bastman who was out of the game last year because be be- be cause cawse he was doing his duty will be In full charge of ot the playing end of ot the team I C a e Red Killefer Is booked to manage the nt Angels again according Cd a et to a statement state state- ment said I to have been made by ya yah h him tr In Los Angeles Certainly he deserves the place He lie took hold of ot the club after Frank Chance resigned and handled it in excellent style Ills His best days as I a player are over true enough Reds arm is so weak t that t tb one expects s every t throw o he ho makes s to b be his last fast But he e Is a grand hd hustler a good hitter and blessed sg with r real baseball eb IF brains al Johnny Powers Pow Pow- ers rs rsm would UlUi go a 1 long way a bet before e he f fRed found a m man better e suited to o the j job t than Red fled C C C CSome Some Somo one has tagged Billy Lane president preal- preal dent of the Salt Sail L Lake l e club with a wild plan to do away with umpires In the Coast league and thus save some money writes Al AI JO Joy in the San Francisco Ex Ex- Ex- Ex amber Billy Is la charged with planning to U use two players l In each Ch and game pay y them a about re 5 each c This would o I save part gf f the salaries and all of oC the I traveling expenses of the umpires r As I ILane ne rd Lane is an old baseball man n the chances an j are that if It he ever made such a I. I surges surges- tion it was h in a kidding w way There are en n no good d dm umpires umpires all m I all lf hands are agreed on that that but but they are a necessary necessary necessary sary evil and are just as much a part of the game as the home plate the pitchers pitcher's pitchers pitch pitch- ers er's box and the base s bags So A Al Baum I la already d looking I around r for gr grA umpires for next season season- but he will lie will will- not be begin n signing his staff until he knows whether r the single or th the double umpire system i will be used j I i Last summer when he L Lefty Williams tile the i well k known Coast league e pitcher nd B Byrd Lynn n the catcher q quit nC the JI Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- I IfO cago fO White Sox to go o into a shipyard Pf old ola c Charley Comiskey ke boiled d da do o over with wrath lIe He ordered them to turn In their suits and told the world fair that never again could either of them enter his ball ban park But now that the war Is over old Commy realizes that Joe Jackson Is a aI pretty r fair hitter te he that Lefty Williams Wl might I help out the die pitching Ch staff next summer and that the others who sought refuge In ngO the e Paint Ilk and Putty league will look good in Chicago uniforms s again f t for tor he has held out the olive branch and stands all read ready to whack the fatted ratted calf call over the head with a bludgeon |