The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-21
MINOR LEAGUES
MEET THURSDAY
Delegates From Eleven Base.
ball Organizations viii Outline
Their Plans at New York This
Week
RESERVE AND CONTRACT
RIGHTS TO BE RESPECTED

Taken by the Head of the As
Sociation-Understanding to
be Had With the Big Leagues
The National Association Of Profess
sional Baseball Leagues, an organiza-
ton embracing II minor leagues and
representing more than 1000 players,
will meet in New York Thursday.
Pres. P. H. Hurley as the head of the
Worcester Eastern League club will
attend. In a baseball sense the meeting
Is expected to play an important part
in the winter proceedings which prom
Use to be unusually interesting.
The warning leagues, the American
and National have been asked by Pres.
Patrick 7. Powers of the new organ1-
cation, who Is also the chief executive
officer of the Eastern League, to re-
spect certain business principles when
he has defined in a letter forwarded to
magnates in each of the big leagues
contractural rights of minor leagues
should be respected, and during the
meeting of the new combine of minor
leagues, reports will be read which will
show whether the organization is to
fight for its rights or be elsanly dealt
with by the major organizations.
The IL leagues represented in the
National Association are the Eastern
League, with the following cities;
Rochester, Toronto, Providence, Hart
ford, Montreal, Worcester, Syracuse
and Buffalo.
New York State League with these
ni{ Albany TTrpV SphpnACfa6V
Rome, 1lion, Waverley, Utica, Bing-
hampton.
Western Association: Columbus,
Dayton, Fort Wayne, Wheeling, Mat
thews, Grand Rapids Marion, Toledo.
Western League: Minneapolis, Kan
sas City, Denver, Colorado Springs,
Des Moines, Omaha, st. Paul, ST. JOS
eph.
Connecticut State League: Norwich,
New London, Bristol, New Haven,
Derby, Bridgeport, Meriden, Water
bury.
Southern League: Chattanooga, Biz
mingham, Little Rock, Nashville,
Memphis, New Orleans, Selma, Shrove-
port.
New England League; Haverhill
Portland, Manchester, Lowell, Lewis
ton, Nashua.
Indiana, Iowa and Illinois League:
Cedar Rapids, Decatur, Bloomington,
Davenport, Evansville, Rockford, Rock
Island. Terra Haute.
Virginia, North Carolina Leagues:
Wilmington, Richmond, Portsmouth,
Raleigh, Norfolk, Newport News.
Pacific Northwest League: Seattle,
Portland, Tacoma, Spokane.
California State League: San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Oak
land.
| Pres. Powers new combine is the
most powerful, numerically, of any or
ganization that has figured in profess
sional baseball in recent years, and its
mission, protection of minor league in
| terests, is one that has been shaping
itself ever since the National League
announced its intention of discontinue
| ing as the parent organization. In a
way, the new organization is unwieldy.
| Its membership contains leagues and
clubs from Maine to California and
| from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
| Heretofore, the California League has
been outside the fold Of the National
agreement and has stripped several of
the minor leagues of star players by
offering inducements In the way of
long periods of employment.
Under the new conditions, the Cali
fornia League must surrender several
| OI us lIOol NdludOtC RldJClSt oiilOtl6
them Eddie Householder, who deserted
the Rochester Club last spring There
is likely to be discomfort among the
minor leaguers when this phase is pre-
scented. Catcher Doom, a young man
signed-by Toronto, played with St
Joseph of the Western League during
the past season, and that club must
give him up. Fred Ketcham, an out
fielder, the rightful property Of SYRIA
cuse played In Kansas City despite
the attempts of Manager Leonard to
secure him. There must be an adjust
ment of these differences before the
new combine can be effective. Pres.
Powers must also show firm hand
in dealing with players who jump to
the major leagues and are then forced
back into minor company.
1t was generally agreed at the close
of the last Eastern League season, that
no baseball league was ever conduct
ed in such a go-as-you please fashion.
Pres. Powers must adopt sterner mea-
sures in the conduct Of the National
Association. The Eastern League
blacklist, a meaningless thing, must be
forgotten, and in it's place. the chief
executive must present something
more substantial. Pres. Powers black
list was so frail that the confidence of
players was shattered, but there
should be nothing like it in the com
bine of Junior leagues. If it is under
stood that players who jump to the
big leagues will be forever barred from
playing in any of the minor leagues,
there will not be much haste on the
part of players to make the try In
faster company, unless with the sane
ton of club owners.
The Eastern League reserve list has
been prepared by Pres. Powers as fol-
lows:
Rochester-William L. Lush, George
G. Barclay, r. z. Grey, Charles A.
Frisbee, H. P. O'Hagan, George H.
Smith, Joseph W. Bean, Edward Grem-
niger, e. j. Phelps. Edward ]. Dixon,
John Malarkey, S. NJ. Bowen, Frank
McPartlin, Isaac Francis, E. A. Mat
tern, A. D. McFarlan and e. House
holder.
Toronto-C. C. Carr, f. J. Bonner,
Lewis Carr, Robert schaub, James
Bannon, w. H. Hargrove, George
Brown. H. P. Bemis. John loft w. NJ
Williams, Louis Bruce, N. Altrock, P.
j. Flaherty, George Sullivan, James
Downey and C. Doom.
PFoyidence-Thomas Leahy, p. J..
McAuley. Edward Dunkle. Frank Cor
ridon, Bert Conn, Daniel Friend. Peter
Cassidy. James Connor. Sutor Sullivan,
JohH flouFhOy. Jonn WATERS, Albert
Wagner, Roy Evans, Fred Parent and
Harry Davis.
MOntreal-Harry Felix, H. Sanders,
Al. Johnson. L. Quinlan. j. N. Shear
on. d. Sheehen, F. w. Odwell, j. Del
ahanty. T. Raub. N. Joyce, W. G.
Mills and L. Gordon.
Worcester. H. Sharrott, George
Wrigley. J. ]. Griffin, F. A Klobedanz,
Joseph Rickert. Homer Smoot, P. J.
Carney. r. A. Unglaub, Frank Doran.
j. J. Pappalau, p. J. Crisham, Thos.