Show DALLAS WilL BE SCENE OF BAll WOW Draft Law Will Again Be Subject of Debate When Officials Gather By y GEORGE GIORGE CHADWICK Special Correspondent of The Standard Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Association NEW YORK Oct 15 IS Clamorous 1 voices will Ill be raised and fen fervid Id oratory will be spilled on the subject of the baseball draft when the minor leagues gather In annual convention at Dallas Texas Texas-on Texas Texas- on December 6 6 7 and 8 There will be a hot fight on the draft of 0 course SE but there is reason On to be believe be lieve that most of the minors will go with some sort of compromise draft for draft for without it the spectres of oC ofa oCa a third major league le and cf of a a. play player er cr war will rise to haunt the base baseball ball magnates The The- Texas league I e. e as an organization tion will undertake the task of oC en entertaining en- en this convention of the Iho mi minors ml- ml non nors known officially as the National Association of Professional ProCessional Baseball Leagues Minor lInor league a e conventions always havo hayo been well attended and very in interesting In- In since the affair at Buffalo BuCCalo some years ago when John J J. McGraw of oC the New York Giants bought O Connell OConnell from Crom the San Francisco club for Cor and was well strung for his pains and when Commissioner Landis lectured the minors about the draft As to the Landis lecture the minors paid about as much attention to It as a recreant kid pays to his mas ma's stem refusal to permit him to go swimming g They along with their theil- non draft organizations for some sometime sometime time after that and when Mike Sex Sex- Sexton Sexton ton president of the minors minors' organization lion tion did prevail upon some of oC them to stet get Into line it was as only because they liked Mike and because e the called so-called limited draft Into existence The limited draft U much like the skirts of the flapper napper Sometimes there Is so little of oC It theres there's nothing to flap Now some of oC the leagues les have havo kick kick- kicked kicked ed over on the draft again and for about the fiftieth time lime in his life lICe Mike flke Sexton will have ha to advance his most convincing arguments to assure the baseball men that they cannot get along along- without the draft or without Judge There Is no man more devotedly attached to the commission commissioner er of oC baseball than Mike It Is a friendship of recent growth but It I t Is Isa a Damon ind nd Pythias affair that causes men to regard Mike with ad admiration ad I and envy IDEAS S DIFFER A canvass made among minor league I men finds some of them still as far faraway faraway away from the original Idea of oC the draft as they always hue have been since the revolt against t Us Its observance The the draft question que has ha been one of local local- localized Iud conditions Some thought they couldn't stet get alone without It and I others thought they couldn't get along with It The leagues that have o fought the draft hardest have been two class AA circuits the International and the Pacific Coast both of which have made a little lIlUe something out of sell sell- selling selling ing players The American association association tion has never stood with Its class AA I colleagues colleague on the draft Issue because I Ithe the association is largely made up of oC that It gets out of oC the for future development or for Cor the last there Is in them before they are sent to the heap The Texas Taxa league Is b not yearning to swallow all the draft The South South- Southern Southern ern association is i more in favor of It The Southern like the American as association as- as Is nourished at the great malor league fount It appears appear that most mo t of oC the minors will to the compromise draft It would be much better for Cor baseball to operate on a Q limited draft than to operate with no draft for If there hap happens pens to be an uprising and some one gets busy on a new le e which al always al- al alays ways ays threatens It will be bet best for Cor everybody e now in baseball to be al al- al lied Another player war ml ht de- de and there never has b en a player war In the national game wherein someone did not eel punched so severely that the yowls could be heard far and wide Texas Is m out a a. generous for fore lIe e Dallas convention There will be plenty of oC for Judge Landis entertainments for the wives w lIS of oC members and drives to here and there as Walter Morris will wUl run a 1 sightseeing car every hour to show how Dallas has grown In addition there are Ft Worth Waco Wichita Falls Oklahoma City Corsicana Mar Mar- lin the old quarters of oC the Giants and plenty of reminiscences to help make It one of oC the merriest parties the minors ever have ha had |