Show Will the Minors 1 j Join Hands With I Federal League eague I By F. F G. G MENKE NEW YORK Ma May 16 It It wouldn't surprising if it the 1 Federal Ira league be bc- carne tho the ruling power pon in baseball before be- be fore 3 year car rolls around Thc minor leagues just jUt no now itow 1 are arc threatening to break loose from front the American rind arid National r leagues and und nd form an alliance c with the Federals If they do it means the ta iu taking away from froni those two major u league or organisations mtr cr very soil cil that has his nourished hecl them Theres There's I. hardly a minor league magnate mag unto nate who j in isn't nt t 6 ng the tho moguls of ot the major Ica leagues ues mill and the tho national commission The Feds have hao about aboul r wrecked a dozen teams in iii tho the cla class AA miDo minors but it isa t the tho Teds that the small lIall Ula magnates are arc swearing arin at ut mostly It Its It's s 's their e. e friends in the bl big league who failed them them and and failed in Jl miserably in tho greatest t crisis crisi in baseball history tor The national agreement in hi which h the bi big and little leagues arc a part provides that the big biJ fellows lIo shall take care caro of the little ones oue in times limes of f trou tron- ble When the thc Feds began raiding the tho little fellows the they yelled Hc to the Ule bi big fellows for hel help And And ADd the big bit fellows answered something in about having j u troubles of fr our own jammed cotton rn jn in their receivers and kept it there Under ordinary conditions tho the major leagues would slip sUp an to the little fellows cHows But this isn't an ordinary period but one ono in ill which the tho majors major's feel fecI that the they nc need 1 about all the available avail 1 able oars t to keep el themselves 8 afloat And they've 0 left the little fellows to sink 11 The statement may may- seem odd that the Jho minors minor mB may hook hoo up with ith the ver very tamo tanto crowd d that put them on tho the fritz but it fem seems tho best move InO th they can ma make c. c They cant can't get Jet help from the majors and th they r cant can't stand alone alone- a against the Fe Feds s. s So tho the only thing that remains is for thorn thom to make peace with the enemy at whatever terms they theyan can an get et And And unless wo we miss our guess b by a n mile milt tile tic Feds will make them good terms lerms and take h them thorn to their bosoms in a loving Joving fashion Prom From Buffalo Baltimore Kansas Cit City and Indianapolis come como r reports al already al al- rC ready that the tho class clas AA teams that are competing with the Federals are meing facing fac me- me ing bankruptcy Tho The class AA minors must insist average around 2500 a day to break ahead cad at atthe tho the end of the season According to the tho early stati statistics they will average about 1000 perhaps less including in inthis this th average a even e the tho attendance in cities where there is no Federal com corn petition Such an attendance is ruin ruin- OUSt ous Not only in this way 1 have tho the Feds placed tho the class classA AA A J minors at their merc mercy but also in another way was as U UVO wo we have hao seriously pointed out That's in inthe inthe the tho matter of In other players years the thio minors ad added e to their income by selling their star t r players to the thc major Some Sorno minor league cJu clubs bs that had haij developed de some exceedingly exceeding glittering glit gut terin stars averaged lI an income of a season ea on through h this source I But Bid th the Feds es arent aren't in ill tho the busin business s of ot player Th They just rab I buying W grab them III In th tb case of sonic some star minor I Illa lla leagues they'll J go o in and agree to pa pay I him him tho thin same salary for tor signing that I Ithe the maiors majors will Jl pa pay him and andIn andin andin in addition they'll gj give c hint him a bonus Its It's not hard to guess S what the players will do doh is it when it comes to toa a proposition of or taking a l year from the American nn or National l la league ue or n a year vear and an additional or from Cram the tho Feds in the form of bonus money moner lId And every ery time limo a player lla r accepts the federals' federals proposition it means that Olat the minors will lose tho the purchase mone money In the face a o of all this his isn't it quite quit logical to presume ana an and to predict predict- that hat tho the minors will cut loose from theties tho the ties ies that bind them to a crowd that hasn't lifted a hand to help them and ando to o join forces with a crowd that will wreck them utterly in ia another if they continuo continue to oppose them |