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Show MINOR LEAGUE MAGNATES MEET AT LOUISVILLE Old Bourbon Entertainment Is Planned for Visiting Baseball Men By ci:ORf;F. CHAD WICK Special Correspondent ut 'JOta Standard- ESxamlncr. 1 .p rirht. m.j. by The Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner 1 NEW YORK, Dec. 2. Minor league baseball magnates will foregather in the erstwhile hind of Bourbon this ! coming week, In anything but a bour-I bour-I bonlc frame of mind. Some few of them may have cruvlnRa for bourbon, i but to repeat, none will have bour- l,,,, .,, i.,, n. .s, for unlike the l"r- n.li brand Ol bourbon, the so-called little fellows of tho game, who gather In annual an-nual conclave at Louisville this week, have learned a lot and have forgotten all about the draft By Item- A bourbon, bour-bon, be it remembered, learns nothing no-thing and forgets nothing. One prediction that can be positively made regarding this cdtlflng convention conven-tion of the National Association of Minor leagues. Is that those In the saddle and those who put them there, will not waver In their stand apainst the drafting of players at nominal turns by major league club owner:-. Thero win bo many representativei ol the bigger leagues hanging around I he outskirts, for. though ribald and frivolous persons sometimes refer to the minor leaguers as "bUHhefS," the wise ones never tor'ct that lrom tho bushes tho rods are gathered. snifli' cnillM. ill IM crwa.A- 1 inr, year ago. when tho national association met at Buffalo, the New York Giants butted into the meeting and carried away O'Connell, the 'aii-fornla 'aii-fornla player on a $70. 000 salver. Had there been anj wavering in purpose us to the stand of tho m:nors on the draft, prior to the advent of the sb d piled with gold, there was none aftr that had Hashed into view. The slpht Of their opulent fellow leaguer who hud made the trade, stopping his way down Ihe hotel lobby In a nuge rur coat, breathing Jiouu bills with . very gasp, solidified the minors then and there. . This." they said, "looks too good. Let us help ourselves to the mustard While the lops are still hot." SO while the JIOOO bills are in Sight, land like wise owners ot nail clubs, who are willing in spend them, the draft In paaeball Will remain in its down and I out seat. The majors nolo the trend of things and In stringent voice put forth the old argument: What shall become of the ball player I May ho not progress in his calling." And pertly the minors I answer: . , . . . , , 'Is It worse that we should hold the player In bondage than that he should be held as a life member of the big nhow?" '' ' ' I There is talk. true, of what may j happen and there Is remcmbranco of admonitory speech of Commissioner I of baseball at Buffalo, but there Is a deeper, sweeter recollection of tho minor league magnates' memory of the $100,000 and that w-vs paid for a .third baseman Thererore. the lltvte I fellows cannot be blamed If they gath-r gath-r In the shadow of the hotel cigar stand and laugh In their sleeves., when some one .sugita a return to the old draft system. Louisville planned to give tho delegates dele-gates ' ntertalnment strictly hospitable aloiu? Kood old bourbon lines. .At least Such was the word reac:itiis' here to-iday to-iday and which tonu.-ht la passing about from baseball falcnd to baseball friend. . J, SHOULD SPLIT The board of arbitration which settled set-tled the u.-arly endless disputes of the minor M-agues began Its sessions today so that the potty quarrels between be-tween Bill Jon s and Sam Smith would be all out Of the way wnen tho a9o-clatlon a9o-clatlon meets Thursday. As a matter of fact the National Association of Minor leagues. Ls too bulky. It should bo split into two divisions. Tho troubles trou-bles of the lower urade should be settled set-tled bv a government of Its own with a separate court of regulation for the higher grade. So much is heaped on tho present secretary of the board that he Is deluged with trouOle :n the sum-in- 1 and part of it should be spurcd .... ' ,ii s.oalli- Kr, In no wr thn mm u , j.-. minor l'-;.'Ucs no dispose.) The asso-elation, asso-elation, which was organized many j ar ago In Now York has outgrown '1 itself. A set program of addresses and helping hand discourses ijas been ar-rane-ed. T he minor league- owirnr who do. h n..t 1 now :...v,' to handle his team in the right way will no told how to do ho. And then next season, just like tli. t.,ol mule that kicked at the can of dynamite, becauso tho sun's rays wero reflected from It lno his eyes, ho will proceed to forget the advice and run his club exactly as he pleases |