Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-14
ECONOMY THE NOTE
League Magnates Will Keep But Few
Reserve Players.
Fly MEN WILL Be DROPPED
No Answer Yet to Demands of
the Players.
II o II A V E ON E PRE-
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NEW YORK. December 1.-THE players
have one more inning with the magnates.
1t will take place some time during the day
and there is a little reason to believe that the
players will get anything out OF it. although
they will find that the owners are adamant
when 1t comes to talking about the re-
serve rule. Presumably. the farming of
players will be abolished. That matter was
settled when the club owners came to the
conclusion last night that sixteen players
were quite enough for any team to carry.
1t is proposed to drop, on some date to be
announced, all the surplus payers In the
National League. and keep the number of
men down to sixteen throughout the
son. This would scarcely make it neces-
sary to work farms, since, If the players
failed to come up to the scratch, there
would be so many extra men on the marke
that 1t would pay to release weak meI
outright and engage others.
The fact that the owners are so deter
mined upon economy shows how far they
came from making anything last season
and how anxious they are to go into the
battle next year on basis that Will give
them an opportunity to get little none!
out of their holdings. Furthermore, 1t is
sufficient object lesson to the players of
WHAT IS IN store tnem IL tNey are IN
clined to be the least bit rebelious. For
more than three months the matter of re-
ducing the number of men carried by each
team has been subject of correspondence
on the part of many of the owners. and
they had their wires carefully laid to do a
little mischief when they got into the
league meeting.
Fifty Players to BE Dropped.
1t Is estimated that about fifty players
will be thrown upon the cold world by this
action of the league magnates Some of
them will get engagements with other
league teams. because their services will be
disposed of before the final cleaning out
comes. Others however, will be forced to
go back with minor leagues or find employ
ment with the American League
A new factor has doomed up to fight the
American League. 1t is nothing more than
the National Associati ton. which Is now will
ing to come under the national agreement
II certain arrangements can be made, and
which agrees to put rival clubs In the cities
where the American League threa, ems 10
expand. The National Association has the
money, 1t claims. to make this a success,
and Is willing to cooperate with the Ma
tional League, In fact, covets the opportu-
nifty to get under the national agreement
and have the league for an ally instead of
trying to wage war against 1t. 1t Is pre-
sumed that the National Association would
listen to nothing less than a franchise in
philadelphia and Boston IL the Nation al
League wanted to take 1t as an ally, and
there is where the hitch is likely to come.
for the Boston people will not give consent
to have their territory invaded. It is re-
ported that some of the players are no
ers' Association. Barney Dreyfus, presi-
dent of the Pfttsburg club says he has
signed thinner to contract for next year,
and does not expect to have the least trou-