Show PREDICTS A REVIVAl m FOR THE MINOR 1 lE LEAGUES GUES 1 Reduction of Players' Players Lisbin Lists in Majors Should Help i All Organized Ball iJ By HUGH S. S FULLERTON 3 J j Minor league baseball ought to hava have bay havea a revival next season and for on once the tha the fans who havo have so 0 loyally supported the tha clubs will ill have the opportunity to see first class baseball From tho the big minors down m baseball ought to improve i iE i 1 E Every Evory ry club in the National and American cnn leagues will cut loose from twelve twel to twenty four players whoa when the season starts and many of them thorn will reduce their playing lists materially cV even n before they more southward Bet ter the majority ty of the players sent back will bo be those thoo who have not air tight contracts This will Till enable th the minor leagues to get really good men a aa at ata a n. price Drice they the can afford to pay Of the 5 2 or moro more players sent back from tho the majors maiors perhaps le less s than halt hal will TiJI land in the class AA league Th The Tho Pacific Coast COlst league now promises to b be bethe bethe the greatest gainer ainer a as they are figuring on a bi big year because a of ot the various OT ox positions and can afford rd to carr carry teams team caliber The Tho American association tion and ami the league leacue bot both will cut down fu the number 0 of of platea carried and throw more men ba back k Int inta nt tho the next lw lower lter r classes Tho The wise wio minor league manager i it would seem would be the on one who wool take tako about baJ half and half balf of tho the exp experienced ri ence players discarded from the thc hithe highe cla class s clubs and the oun Th Tha kind of a team usually usual usual- hustles ant and tile trie hard bard if the veterans are arc of tho kin kind cI i i 1 In the tho past last it has been the custom o othe o. o the veteran players player ens sent back to tb th minor leagues cs to loaf and suP and nud per haps Imps feel fecI injured d. d There Thero will 11 bo be boer ver er verb little of that aurin during the coming if the players havo hao son sonie e They wil wi realize that baseball as a business is i ia i ia ii iia a tolerably ly bad iray ray that it is js over rt oversupplied supplied with athletes for the tho t me be being being being ing ing- and nd oD that many men who ordinarily would be bo rising rising- and am drawing good gool mone aro are bustling hustling to hold hoM on where they 3 sir are There is nothing like Jike fear feat of Iosi out to make malo ban ball players wor mu work With salaries in iu tho big biz leagues an in anin anin inin in thu tho Fed league o higher thau than ever e b fore was known and salaries in iu the tho mi minors minors nors tiers lower than they tho have been heen fc years cars and the managers and owners O fa fain facing fac facing in ing losses to carry teams nn and bold hold franchise for b better times it wool woul seem that the minor Jen league u player would hustle harder and aDd harder to a ad a vance |