Show LANDIS LANDIS CALLS SESSIONS fOR BAll OWNERS Major League Leagie Clubs To Have Annual Meeting In Chicago HY ny G ORGE DWICK WICK Special Correspondent of Tho Copyright 1923 by The Standard Standard- Standard Examiner I ExamIner NEW YORK Nov 10 The The na- na nation's na nation's tion's baseball men will III descend about December 10 on Chicago where the amalgamated interests or in other words the joint confer confer- conference conference ence eneo meets December 13 U They as- as as o assemble because at Louisville last winter Commissioner LandiS pressed the point of an early joint conference He Ito began stressing the need for this joint meeting just after I it had become evident that he could not I stir the draft question at Louisville as he had tried to do In 1921 1 at Buffalo when he vainly told the mInors that all baseball needed as as the draft The commissioner did not even peep about the draft at Louisville for anone with half an ee eve could see that the draft matter was M as not notto notto notto to be stirred there The Tho of the Pacific Coast the tho American association and the In- In In International league declared before the conference had been und under r r way 24 hours houn that they were ware going ahead without the draft in 1923 And they subsequently It would havo have been bad politics nen cien 1 I if spirited self sacrifice for forthe the commissioner to have hao told the minors at that time tha that they need need- needed needed ed the draft and that he was going to prescribe It for tor their own good whether hether they liked It or not They WOUld have havo told him to take his old medicine himself and not bother them nith Ith It I RUMORS HUMORS riA ri But it was only a 0 a few hours after Judge LandIs arrived In III Louisville that rumors began to fly that the majors and minors would meet In Chicago in 1921 1923 19 21 One very erY Important man In minor league baseball was as as openly opposed to such a meeting Ito He fought to the bitter end and ent with his colors colore flying de- de declaring de declaring claring daring that a general of major and minor leagues would lose for the minors th the tha Individual ual individuality Individuality ity for tor which ibich they had been fight fight- ing log fighting with ith some success In recent I ears Since then there have haie been meetings and conferences and oc- oc oc occasionally there thero have haie ha e been Invest InveRt Investment ment meat In baseball clubs which were made to swing minor Interests Into a different channel Without any doubt there has been going on a campaign under undercover undercover undercover cover for the draft But that's nothing new No matter who do- do denies donies de denies nies it you can put It down that modified plans plane for a draft hae been under tinder the hat for tor six months or mal moie e Those who have fought the d draft will vIII be modified If the secure promises of more money for players President McCarthy of the Pa fie league Is being because he opposes the draft of the International might b bu be fought If there were enough maior malor ma lor league money In his hi circuit to embarrass him Hickey of the American as- as as association will go with Ith his hia and it Is in his league that thai efforts are being made to eway sway enough nough votes to let certain clubs gt the back of players from the major leagues nL RL DRAFT In this thia there arises a condition which completely re- re to which the e all effect of ot the tho draft and seem blind As the situation now stands Elands the agues malo refuse to let players go to the non-draft non leagues unless the latter cr accept them to raft draft Some of these clubs clubs arc are to hayo havo the draft d go Into effect so that they can get the tho b erf low of pIa ers In the spring But Dut here h 1 enters this situation The Th draft law presumably a adopted to put the players up higher acts as sa an agent to 10 put hIm down lower He Is dratted drafted Into the majors only to be kicked back Into the minors minora If the draft law law- were w re I sound I as It relates l to the tho so calleJ ele atlon of the player from a II minor chattel to a Li major chattel the proper thing to do would be to declare him a free agent the moment the majors found they couldn t use him Then he could shIft for tor him him- self himself sel Dot But that Isn't lant whit Is l anted There are certain clubs that wish to start spring with all the Ito pia era they can get from the major leagues They dont don't want lint ant to I develop know players y how Perhaps 00 S they dont don't |