The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-08-25
THE classification legislation in the |
National association national

u NatlOnal association natlOnal
agreement will be revised at the
annual meeting Of that organization in
Chicago next fall. The system may
not undergo radical change, but there
will be notifications that will do away
with abuses and injustices that have
arisen in the course of the develop
ment of the game, to individual minor
leagues in all sections of the country
The major leagues are interested in
the matter, because the draft price
of the player Is determined by the
rank of the minor league Of which the
club to which he belongs is a mem
Der at the time of his selection, but
the parties of the first part in the
agreement will have no part in the
new grouping of the minor leagues.
This power is delegated to the minors
by section 5 of Article 6 of the ma
tional agreement. which reads as fol-
lows: -,
The National association shall have
the classification of its leagues and
the adoption of salary for Its clubs
according to such classification and 1t
agrees to withdraw protection from
any league which Allows any Of its
clubs to exceed the salary limit pre-
scribed for leagues Of its classified
ton.
The succeeding section fixes the
price for selecting Class A player by
n major club at $1,000; II class B
player at $3.50; of Class G player at
$500 and of a player from club of
lower Gloss" at $500, The quoted
words we're manifestly employed In ex-
pectation of the creation Of classes be-
low d and are assuredly sufnclently
elastic to include the rest Of the letters
of the alphabet. However, 1t Is ap'
parent that, although the National as
ISOLATION has sole control OF the
grading of its leagues in rank, three
classes-A, B and C-must be retained
in order that the drafting rights OF the
major leagues under Section 9, Ar
ticle 6, may be exercised at the price
fixed for each of these ranks.
"Are the Tigers out of the pennant
running this year? Decidedly not"
said Manager Hughey Jennings the
other day. We've got to work hard'
or than ever before, that's all. Who
do 7 think will win IL we fail to get IN
at the finish. Well, frankly, l like the
looks of the Red Sox. The Red Sox
team has even chances with the Atm
letics of landing first In the race, de-
snite the big handicap the Connie
Macks now have on Taylor's men. AS
long as this Red Sox smash-bang hit
ting continues nothing In the world
will stop the team. Great pitching by
a remarkable pitching staff such as
the Athletics have will win pennant,
but when you have to
choose between a team that Is playing
great ball in the field and hitting FAIR
" we'll behind wonderful pitchers, and
a team that is bubbling over with con-
fdence which has resulted from
long stretch of victories Is able to
start a batting rally which means
from three to four singles
to six or eight hits with doubles and
triples scattered among them, and has
a couple of great left-handers, who sell
dom pitch three, four or five hit
games, but who never get hammered
out Of the box either, why, give me
the chaps who are hitting and who
have the confidence. 1t would be a
great thing for Boston to win the pen
nant. and IL we cannot climb In there,
why, my best wishes to Pat Donovan's
team" A
President Lynch has been closely
observing the work Of his umpires. He
IA fairly well satisfied with the way
they are performing, but is anxious to
improve the staff az much as he can.
Next year he expects to have two or
three new men Of intelligence and
good Judgment. In order to get high T!
class men for the position said the
league chief. 1T Is necessary to make
the work attractive. Intelligent men
will not stand for constant daily abuse |
on the field, and am doing my best |
to eliminate the use of bad laguage By |
players. II we can hush up the rough |
fellows 1t will be easy to get fine
clsss OF men to do the umpiring, for
II Is interesting work. think we are
makt1g progress along that line.
Every case of profane or obscene Ian
guage used to an umpire calls for a
fine or suspension. and this rule Is
he,ng rigorously enforced" Mr.. Lynch
Is very earnest In his desire to make