The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-19
|I|N|H RULE Will
HIP TA|LEhDERs
Weaker aubs win Profit by Rule
Moving Only rs
Players.
BIG JON wedding OUT
Scouts Will 1ei Able to Pick Up
NAN Good
Mn.

When the maje leagues recently
agreed to limit tn number of play
ers club can Carl from May Is to
August 90 OF each Ear to twenty-five.
they did a mighty sod piece of work.
and. perhaps witbut knowing II.
made II easier for he manager Of a
taii-end team to bud up his aggre-
cation. From May 5 to August 20,
inclusive, each big ,ague cofnbina-
ton can have TWENTY-FIVE players on
Its roster, which nunler ought to be
more than sufficient for q clubs
needs. Where the newrule Will work
well for the tail-end TENS, who were
denied the chance In tn past OF get
ting clever youngster who were
merely warming the benh for clubs
UP in front. Is that theleaders will
have to cut down their sQAds to rea-
sonable proportions, and, perforce,
turn loose promising Juvenss.
OF course, all the 76S athletes re-
served by the National ana Ameri-
can. League clubs last TALL want live
wires, but among the 35S hstimers
who have to be gotten rid q before
May 15 next, In order to comfy with
the late legislation of the m&nates,
there certainly must be fifty q more
clever performers. Should thee fifty
athletes be procured by the cluhth
| finished In the second division last
year, watch out for great pehant
pursuits, both In the Byron BarEoft
Johnson and Thomas Joseph Inch
| organizations this season. !,
Now is the time for the men Mo
do scout duty for clubs needing IA
terial to fly southwark and visit We
/ training camps of teams which hAe
surplus material to dispose of. Al
parentiy. no member of the Gum Sh&
| Brigade has thought of this ideA
which was conceived by Billy Mum
ray. the deposed manager of the Phil
adelphia Nationals.
| The idea, according to Presiden
/ Thomas j. Lynch. is an excellent one
! Says the National League executive
| ''Aii of our clubs viii have to GU
down to the legal limit OF twenty
| five PLAYERS by May Is. Some mer
who would do only bench warming
duty were there no limit to the mum.
| Der of players a team could carr,
| will have to 20. 1t is the business OF
the alert club president or manager
whose team now needs Strengthening
| to chase his scouts South to size vi
| the National and American League
| players now in Dixieland. Then
when waivers are asked on men. tns
scout can report to his employer tina
| SO and SO is not of major league cali,
Der, but that some other man is. The
club president then will not be waiv.
| ing on a man whom he knows nothine
about, except by hearsay or grab.
bling somebody on pure speculation
Murray's idea also finds favor with
Secretary Hestflar. Of the Nationa
League The only clubs in the Ma.
| tfonal League that are now anywhere
near the legal limit of TWENTY-FIVE
men are Brooklyn, Boston and Phil.
adeiphia. John McGraw. of the
| Giants, for example. is in command
OF about forty-two FASTENERS down In
Marlin. Tex. Seventeen of these viii
have to be turned LOOSE. In reality
according to hasebaM law. there viii
only be twenty-three actual perform
ers with the Giants from MAY is "a
August 20.
Managers are bound to make man,
mistakes this season In getting rid 81
their new material, as the leaders
peerless and otherwise. cannot nos.
sibiy expect to hit at a SEQ cltp in the
Discard League. In the cases Of nlay-
ers who were purchased by the Ma
tionai League clubs last fall. the
American League teams have some
right to them after all the clubs In
the Lynch organization have waived
claim on their services. In the case
of drafted PLAYERS. however. athletes
who are not wanted can he sent hack
to the minor leagues. provided ali the
National League clubs waive on them.
without asking American League
managers.
This rule. which Ii a bad. one.
probably will be changed shortly bv
the National Commission. SO that Ma
tional League clubs can have
chance to get players who are drafted
by American league clubs. And vice
versa. or. as "Rube,' Waddeli is wont
to express himself. terra firma.
The lawmakers might 20 even further
and make 1t possible for an Ameri-
can or National League club to get a
man destined to be released on whom
the other organization has no rights.
The rules of the. major leagues pro-
vide that PLAYER who has been in a
league fnr one fult soasnn shall ha-