, 1891-02-01
THE SETTLEMENT.
The Terms Under Which the
Baseball War Has Ended.
POINTS OF THE NEW AGREEMENT.

the Associations Have Been Laid Out.
Players Fully Protected.
The baseball complications are now ut
an end, and all parties interested in our
great national game as it is played p~rofes-
sionRlly are happy over the manner in
which the disputes have been settled. As
there is every reason to believe that they
have been settled for many years to come,
the admirers Of the game have cause for
co~ngratulation. Strife was ended and
peace established by the final adoption of
the Spalding-Thurman plan Of reconstruc-
ton.
The new agreement Is a lengthy docu-
ment, drawn up in legal phraseology, con,
tanning about 5000 words. / will try to
make clear in a condensed form those feat.
ures of II which are not already generally
known. The principal one Is the abolition OF
the old board OF arbitration and the estab-
lishment Of a national board, with such ex-
tcnsive powers as to make It ALMOST omnip-
Uteut IN bHSebaff matters-Fhis board con
sists of three members-one each from the
National league, the American association
and the Western association. These mem
bers are elected for five years, but can be
removed by Il twO-thirds vote Of the bodies
which elected them. They receive 81 800
yearly as salary. They elect a chairman
and secretary and such other officials as
may be needed, and decide the compensa-
ton they are to receive. The chairman
may be one OF the three or an outsider. In
the latter event he has no vote. Allen w.
Thurman, Of Columbus, will be the first
member from the American association.
and L. c. Krauthof, of Kansas City, from
the Western association. The League mem
Der will be either John /. Rogers or G. II.
Byrne. A. g. Mills will be offered the
| D%0sition Of chairman and N J. Nnunu wfII
probably be chosen secretary and treasurer.
The board Is to decide all disputes be
tween clubs and players or managers, and
be the Interpreter Of the various clauses of
the national agreement. 1t will keep the
records Of the players in all the clubs, par
ties TO the agreement, whether in major or
minor leagues; it will record all contracts
and releases and ~promulgate the same;
supply any club at any time with the
standing of any player; interpret the play
ing rules and amend the same at its pleas
ure; IL may appoint official scorers, and
also appoint umpires, and assign them for
any association IL requested; in matters
within its Jurisdiction It's decisions are to
be final; IL may reinstate suspended play
ers; IL will have the exclusive control of
minor leagues, and many other privileges
that make it a power indeed In the conduct
OF the inside affairs OF baseball. The ex-
IouhFo 4 IA bOuEu hEt htlIANtu Dl hahthS-
ments on the clubs, and the lines and penal
ties inflicted for transRresslon and viola
tions OF the national agreement.
The board will classify all minor leagues,
fix the assessment to be paid by each, spe-
city the salary limits for each and the limit
Of compensation to be paid umpires by
each class. 1t will also prescribe the
amount OF compensation TO be paid 10 "A
club for any player It may have who is
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words, any club can require the services o.
any player IN a grade under its own when
II desires, with the proviso that 1t cannot
negotiate with n player Of a lower grade
club during the playing season without
the assent OF the board and by paying the
compensation fixed. Between seasons they
are at liberty to negotiate with any player
in any club OF n lower grade at will. In
every case, however, the player must be
given an Increase OF salary, and cannot
even then be transferred without his free
and full consent.
Tn provisions in regard to players are
the fRirest and most equitable ever yet
agreed TO by baseball rules, and they do
away with nearly all the features which
players have heretofore considered oiTen-
sive. The reserve rule remains in force "a
heretofore, and players may be transferred
from one club to another, but no transfer
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sent Of the player and at an advance in
salary, and the player is guaranteed pro
lection from any measures to make him
sign where he has refused to 20. Any
player can get his absolute release from the
board should his club at any time be more
than fifteen days in arrears to him for
salary. II, when a club transfers its mem
bership from one association to another,
any player can show cause to satisfy the
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club he will be injured thereby. he may OBJ
tain his release.
Contracts by the major leagues may be
made for any length OF time desired, but
minor leagues will have to he governed on
this subject by the board, Whenever II
club disbands or is expelled. the players of
that club are released from reservation,
but their services are subject TO acceptance
by any club ia the same league for a period
Of ten days. Each clubin the major organ-
i~zatious has the power to control and make
its own regulations as TO salary and dis
ciplinc. Any club in arrears of salary to a
player which does not at once liquidate
the same on the order Of the board will be
expelled.
The territorial limits ofthe major league
clubs cave been extended to five miles of
the city or county in which the club is
located, The territorial limits of the
minor le0RueS VIII De prescribed by the
national board, and the board will also
make regulations governing the exchange
of players between all classes of leagues
and clubs, fix the minimum salary In each
and fix a uniform rate OF compensation
for players taken from them by higher
class clubs
These are in brief the most important
changes made in the national agreement.
Under the final settlement the circuits
OF the major leagues will be as follows:
Western Association-Th same as lust
year. National LeHgue-New York, Bus.
ton, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago,
P%ittsburg, Cleveland and Cincinnati.
American observation-disclosures Phila-
delphia, Boston, Washington. Chicago, st.
Louis, Columbus and Louisville. Under
the terms of the settlement the Boston and
Philadelphia clubs date Players league)
give up all their players-to he clubs they
originally came from. The Boston club
takes a new name, in which Boston" is
not TO appear. is to charge fifty cents ad-
mission. and when II cannot get that tariff
Il agrees to quit the city. Other hard
conditions are also imposed, and the same
state OF affairs applies to Chicago. Toledo
and Rochester got $500 each 10 retire,
and Syracuse received 1900. The new
clubs pay S,OO each for their franchises.
W. l. HARRIS.
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