Show NA NAIL TL I COMMISSION CLOSES ITS SESSION Members on Their Way Home Little of General Interest Accomplished I I iIi Tit In U ie The TOe T H Jan 3 Members 3 Members of Or th the C national baseball commission today J are on their way WilY to their re respective homes home after alter h having concluded n a I meeting at Cincinnati last lu night at which t the e re request elt of representatives of the the I I class AA leagues relative to w me the elimInation elim elimination elim- elim of the draft from their leagues league was heard and promised careful can consid lid The new owners of or the Boston Americans AmerIcans Amer Arner- leans expect William F F. Carrigan to r reply ply tomorrow to their proposal 1 asking him to reconsider hl his decision not nol to lo manage the thc club In 1917 it Il has haa been announced The commission heard A plea from Crom tho the smaller leagues that R nt at t least Its lla moral Influence be exerted to lo help the minor leagues lagues out oui of at what was yas to lo be bo a a. amo mo most l deplorable condition The Th minor leagues urged the commission commission commis commis- sion to lo r recommend that a n tion anti and reo reorganization of all minor minot leagues bo he made with Ith the Idea Iden in itt view v DrI of Dr j I eliminating excess s railroad mileage of or orI teams rearrangement of ot tho the maximum I salar salary limit antI and ot r Ideas which the they claimed would KO IW cIr far toward louard putting pulling a aI large majority of the Iho minor league clubs I on a n paying basis The commission promised to lo do everI everything every every- thing In Its Us power to lo help along these I lines 1 I Augu August t Herrmann was W re-elected re president president proal dent and John E E. Bruce o secretary f for tor r the tho I coming coining year ear while a large l amount of I routine business was tran transacted acted and I Chairman n Herrmann announced that forthe for tor forthe the first time In his recollection every ery case hal had been lIeen disposed of or except the Iho matters mailers pr presented at nt today's todaR meeting The class AA men with Ith President Edward Edward Ed Ed- Edward Ed- Ed ward Barrows of the tho International league and President Thomas of or tho the American association L as spokesmen presented pro pre lI elx six requests The They are pre pre-I The Th elimination of or that part of oC the drafting rules In the Iho national agreement affecting the drafting of or players by major league clubs club from cla class clara AA u. clubs The Tho elimination of that part of or the national agreement providing that class clus AA players purchased lI by major lea league ue clubs club shall be bt required to lo report to the tho purchasing club Immediately a alter after tel tho the purchase of or the tho pI players player erR That It Is the sense of ot the tho National association that no club member thereof be permitted to lo take a 1 player from the major leagues either cither on option or Dr lI by purchase who has not had minor Jen league experience The establishment of or a board of five members separate and distinct from the national commission slon to lo decide all aU matters matterson on appeal anneal from Crom th the findings s of ot the Na Na n- n association or on all ill matters of oC I controversy y between major and minor Jen leagues or club members or players player Changing the method of oC drafting pIa player players play play- ers H first by cI determining by lot when opposite major leagues draft the same samo player which league shall secure the player of or determining the tho league and pIa er at the same samo time second by naming the player drafted d from class AA clubs Instead of or naming the clubs first and the tho pl players rs afterward The rearrangement nt of at the rules and laws of or the National n I affecting territorial rights classification reservation reserva tion and farming or at optional l agreements u Previous to meeting with the national commission President Barrows harrows and President Hickey held a lengthy conference conference confer conter- I ence and took up the tho subject of or the series between the International Inter Inter- International national league and the American asso asso- elation |