The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-09
'DRUMM DOES
TALKING TURN
Thinks Independent Ball is
the Thing.
RIGID SALARY LIMIT
Is the Plan Proposed by
Manager P. Sturges.
Western Clubs Of the o. & P. will
Demand Protection Which Organi.
zed Baseball Must Give Them.

p. circuit is taking a lot of JOY
out of section 9 article 81, of the
national agreement. which reads:
rThe circuits of each league
now under the protection of this
agreement. with the exceptions
hereinafter provided for, shall be
continued as at present constitute
ed No circuit shall be changed
withou the consent of a majority
of more of the clubs of such
league.'
by the provisions Iof this agree
ment the western clubs hope that
the eastern division teams will be
unable to break away even with the
aid of the national commission
which has promised to meet here
with the o. and p. magnates at
the January session.
1t is the general belief of the
eastern clubs that the western end
is holding out in the hope of
somebody buying them out. The
western club owners deny this.
They say they have money invested
and merely want an opportunity
of recovering some of their losses.
President Paul Sturges OF Mans
field. leader of the western faction
says rigid salary limit is what
will save the o and p. He thinks
each club should hold to certain
expenditures and by so doing every
one would have chance to make
n little money. The eastern people
agree with that but declare they
want to do business only In the
larger towns where the jumps are
not so great and where attendance
is larger.
The Detroit American league club
has offered Charles Starr who play
cd short for Youngstown, good
salary for next season. He also
has offers from Little Rock and
Rochester. Starr hit .2G7 last year,
stole 75 bases and fielded .954
on 13S games. lie was by all odds
the best iniielder in the league and
in class by himself covering
ground. Starr has nonreserve con-
tract. last season and the teams
which drafted him discovered he
was a free agent.
Peoria. ll., has drafted BIZ
wartz OF Akron. 1t wasn't sur
prising that he was drafted but
it's queer how the class A teams
overlooked him. Schwartz is a
wonderful fielding first baseman.
He has all the natural qualiflca-
tions for the job. being tall and
having long reach. He hit .297
for Akron last year.
Schwartz was with Cleveland a
few years ago, but did not last
He could not hit then. However
he went back to Akron and improv-
ed his batting gradually until now
he is one of the strongest hitters
in the o. and p. Schwartz Is
very much displeased with the Peo-
ria draft. He had hoped to remain
in Akron another season at least
as he Intended entering business
there. He was to have made q
mighty good first baseman for q
class A league team
Ferd Drumm who managed Ian-
esville and Marion in the o. and
p. league. thinks independent ball
q better proposition than baseball
I'm the league as it Is now constitut-
ed. IN a recent interview he told
one of the western division papers
that he knew for sure the eastern
clubs would do just as they said
about Withdrawing II the national
commission does not sanction their
plans. Drumm ought to know
whereof he speaks. He managed
two western clubs and knows just
now much money can be lost by
them. Drumm never was an extrav-
agant manager, yet he always had
a good team at moderate outlay
lie declares the western towns can
not support ball teams properly
Drumm says:
The towns which now compose the
D. and p. league played on an
independent circuit for several
years before the present league was
formed. and the games were well
well patronized, almost as good
ball being played as in the present
league. while the expenies were
not near as heavy, and there Is
no doubt but that 1t could be
done again. What the western
clubs will do in the event the
eastern teams play independent ball