Show I Is a pretty big Institution I ItI B BASEBALL tI tion I It IS is bigger than any anyone one man It ItIs itis Is broader than tho the major leagues with Its dilatory national commission The minor leagues are going to have something to say and It Is likely to prove a pretty big say before they get through Plans of coercion of the eleven big I league clubs have lost their Kick due partly to the silence of Ban Johnson and his Loyal Five plus the growing powers of the minors I According to President William I of the Chicago Cubs more than fifty minor league presidents have Indorsed the Lasker Idea for a new body to govern both major and minor leagues But this sudden change of spirit to recast recast recast re- re cast their lot again with the major leagues means that they would want something to say as to who these notables notables notables no tables would be who should hould sit on the throne It Is pretty certain that they'd want men who understood baseball and that they would demand a fair fall representation on that body They've gone through lean tean and fat periods on their own hook and they have met the gambling problem problems and solved them even more decisively perhaps than the reformers of the bigger or or- or-I or So 50 the minors are going to have a lot lotof lotof I of pertinent things to say for the good goodof I of baseball They lost faith In the present national commission heads but they are willing to join hands with the bigger organizations If given the representation which Is due them |