The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-19

Speaking of the California peace pact and the meeting of the National Associ- ation to ratffy or reject 1t at Cleveland, O.. next Tuesday, Tim Murnane says in The Chicago Record-Herald:
 Those Californians must have a very high regard for Ned Hanlons judgment in picking out ball players. Six players claimed by Brooklyn and Baltimore hare signed contracts to play on the coast next season, so that Hanlon's visit as a delegate from the minor league ranks C. suited in a good thing for the Brooklyn club. as the Brooklyn manager remained in San Francisco to patch up the holes made by the outlaws.
 @ A great victory for the CaIifornians is the way they feel on the Pacific Slope, for they were allowed a position higher than class A of the minor league. What this will have to do with the success of the league no one can tell. The chances are that it will be handicap before ono year is over. Classification amounts 10 little, unless you have the players, and there is nothing to hinder the Class A clubs Of the minor leagues from paying all the money they care to for good play CTS.
 '"rhe ones to get the small end of the deal will be the players who have been caught in the California net, for once out there they must stay, and they are sure to run up against cut prices. Salaries must naturally drop, for the people hand hng the game are very close business men, who know a thing or two about baseball, and are aware of the character of the men who jumped to them from all quarters.
 ''1'he coast people made a good front, but never intended to remain outside :ne breastworks after this season. as the good players they were developing were fast turning their heads toward the East This was annoying, for only disgruntfed players would take the bait and go to the Hand of sunshine with an eight months season.
 ."rhe CaUforpiaDs uara adviSad Do doubt, by James Hart to make a speciul class, in this way being allowed to haII- dle their own affairs. This will help 10 make the national commission a more powerful body, as 1t will have to settle al the disputes between the major and minor as against the coast people. This Will give the major leagues better hold on the baseball business, a point they have been working Tor since the Cincn- natl agreement, where the minor league organization ttSk what was handed out even against tLe will of the majority of the small fry.
 While the coast people will have ueat s ana chance to do business in a leKiti- mate way, the business in the East must also be greatly benefited. as the ma,Cr leagues gradually come closer together, ana the classes of the minor leagues will follow into line. Each of the big leagdes must ratify the doings of Hart and John son and the national board ratify the work of Hanlon. That all will accept the conditions there is little doubt
 The only difference now is a few sec- ond-class Dall players and some Of the men in dispute are not graded as high as second class There is not one ficst- class man Tn the California outfit The few goods ones that went from the big league were weak hearted and seldom made good when the games meant soEle- tmnS. California has no stars in baSC- ball at the present time. That country has turned out some great players in the past, sucn as 'Bili Lange, Tom Brown, Jim FOgarty, Jerry Denny, George Van Haltren. Fred Carrol,, Charley Sweeney and some good ones that never passed out of the minor leagues. Of late years the natives have been sidetracking for the 'rCNers' from the East. who must now remain out there for good and grow un with the country"