Show RESERVE RULE IS ESSENTIAL II so says john Ni montgomery ward old time ball player needed to maintain national game john af ward who probably kubwa as much about the workings of baseball as anyone having been a player as well as a magnate says saye the reserve rule Is ia essential it must be kept in effect to maintain baseball when the brotherhood was organized the fight made by the players was against a salary limit the contract in those days daya conta contained hied a clause which reserved a player without his consent consent but things are different now the modern contract includes an agreement by the player to permit hla his employer to exer cise alsa an option on his hie services for the ensuing year it if it for the methods employed 0 by organized organised sed LeA baseball the players would not be bd dr drawing such euch largo salaries the Aatlo national naj agreement and the national commis commie stoil slon are bulwarks bulwa of th the game should they be abolished players who are ar demanding would bo be forced to accept 1500 instead ln tead |