The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-27
BIG WAR TALK IN
BASEBALL WORLD
American Association Threat
ems to Start Trouble With
the Major Leagues.
BIG FELLOWS PULL STRING
OLDER EXAMINATIONS HAVE
TOO MUCH CONTROL.
BIG FELLOWS PULL STRING

Chicago. Ost. 26.-The national base
Dali family is likely to have a big quar-
rel ON its hands this winter. as the
American association, the biggest Of
the minor leagues, is up in arms and
threatening to withdraw from the IA
tional agreement. The club owners OF
mat league say they are deriving no
benefits from the alliance and, in fact.
are tled hand and foot by being con-
nected with organized baseball.
Chicago will be most vitality intar-
ested in the scrap if it comes off. for
II is the plan of the assosiation to nut
ball team into Chicago with grounds
on the North Side
NJ. E. CantilIon, owner of the NIinne-
apolis franchise of the American ssso-
cation, was outspOken yesterday i'm
his denunciation of the conditions
winch he claims pin his league down to
mere serfdom.
Have No Protection.
We are under protection now which
doesn't protect" said Mr.. CantilIon
With the present conditions il is ali
SOlute1y impossible for a club i'm our
league to know where il stands i'm re-
gard TO the makeup of team until the
major league magnates are ready Ia
hand us their discard players. l. for
one. think we would be a lot better off
II we cut away from this national
agreement and went out and hustled
for ourselves. Then we could get To
gether some ball clubs Independent OF
other leagues and other owners.
Half the players in our league are
really owned by major league clubs.
and nobody knows when the string viii
be pulled and a team broken up by the
recall Of those players. Men are farme.i
out to our clubs and Immediately want
the same salaries in a minor league
that they received in the big leagues
1t is impossible to meet those demands.
of course, and when We are compelled
TO reduce their pay to minor league
proportions the men naturally become
dissatisfied and very often don't give
the teams their best efforts.
Then, again, the patrons Of the
American association cities don't like
the idea of getting discarded players
all the time.
One Vote In Thirty-seVen.
Belonging to the National Associa-
ton of Minor League clubs doesn't do
us any good, for we have one vote in
thirty-seven. A class d league has Just
as much power as the American asso-
citation when it comes time to vote on
important affairs, and there is TO
chance to correct the present evils. The
association is foolish if it doesn't pull
out, and / fully expect it will be run
next season Independent of the nation
al agreement"
There is no doubt that the leading
lights i'm organized baseball expect
he art Of n So
ton toward pulling away from he fold.
President Johnson of the American
League, one of the members Of TIE ma
tional commission, was seeking to find
out yesterday where the dissatisfied
minor league magnates stand. A break
in the ranks is looked for ana means
of oAeckmaking the belligeren.s are be
ing contemplated
Chicago Looks Inviting.
More than once the association club
owners have been on the point Cf try
ing to break into Chicago with Il club,
but they seem to be more in earnest
about it this time than ever before. If
the disruption comes the St. Paul or
milwaukee, franchise will be trans
ferred TO Chicago. A park On Fuller
ton avenue west of Lincoln park. Vas
figured on at one time, and probably
the same site would be selected TINS
time.
Just how much of a fuss the assocla-
TONS withdrawal from organized lase-
ball would cause can only be conlec-
tured. 1t would make the association
an outlaw league. of course. and big
ger one than has existed at any tine
vet. The air would reek for time
with stories of contract jumping ana
outlawry. Chicago always has lookei
inviting TO the American association
magnates, and IL looks as though that
league is now ready to cut away from
organized ball and enter this territory