Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-10-31 | Page 24 | Friendly Relations Likely to be Restored

I FRIENDLY RELATIONS LIKELY LUEL Y 10 TO BE i RESTORED Minors and Majors Will Probably Get Together on Agreement I Oct 31 Pleasant U.-Pleasant Pleasant relations rela rela relations I C CHICAGO between the major and minor V leagues may b be bc resumed at the t annual an n- n nual meeting o of the National AssocIation Association As As- o of Professional Baseball leagues to be held In Mass November November No No- vember ember 11 This Is the big gathering o of all the baseball folks below the majors Last Lalit year the little fellows met at Peoria and decided to withdraw from rom the national national national na na- agreement This declaration was followed by formal for for- formal formal mal action at a Joint meeting In New v NewYork NewYork York last at which time the majors saId eald but did not sign an agreement agreement agree agree- ment to the effect that the they woold re respect respect respect re- re the contract rights of the minors They did so but In spite o of the rules o of the minors minor themselves that t aey would take back no players on optional agreements to re return return return re- re turn them to the majors in the fall fail some minor clubs did not comply fully with this clause The White Sox yanked back some nine or ten players stacked awa away for the summer In Minneapolis and the rhe I Western estern league Charles A. A Comiskey Is exceedingly friendly with Joe boss of the Minneapolis club while Tip ONeill O'Neill commy's right hand man has extensive Interests In the Western Vestern league Jim Dunn president o of the Cleveland Cleveand outfit Is said to have Indorsed notes indorsed notes for Clarence Clarence Clarence Clar Clar- ence Rowland when the former White Sox boss purchased half halt the Milwaukee Interests And so It goes A major owner wishes to place a youngster In the minors and sells him for cash In the autumn the favored ored minor magnate sells back the same player also for Cor cash and the transaction appears legitimate As a matter matter matter mat mat- ter o of fact the player has been farmed In the same effect If not the same manner manner man man- ner as In the days das when farming was permitted The draft also was abolished prior to last season This deprived the smaller leagues o of a chance o of garnering many thousands o of dollars which In times past often stood between profits and deficit The minors are arc In good condition right now Some sixteen leagues finished last season and at least eight more are planned for or 1920 At one 1911 time time 1911 there were six forty leagues represented at the thc meeting o of the national In San Antonio