The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-05
MINORS WIN OUT.
National Baseball Commission
Grants Them Every Demand.
Draft Price is Raised and New
Classification Made.

Cincinnati, Jan. 5.-With the recogni-
Ition of a class in minor baseball leagues
to be known as class "A and revision
| of practically every section of the ma
tional agreement, the National baseball
commission ended its eighth annual
meeting here.
The visit of the hosts of minor league
magnates to the meeting was not in
vain, inasmuch as they were granted
everything that they requested of the
| commission. The class "A will be
ranked between the major leagues and
| the class A leagues and will be COM
posed of the International league, the
American association, and the Pacific
/ Coast league. Like the major leagues.
the class AA clubs cannot sell players
except for immediate delivery. This
rule does not bind the leagues of a
| over classification. however.
The drafting season which has here
tofore opened on September 1, will in
the future open on September IS. The
! season for purchase of players VIII
close August 20 as formerly. The first
five days of the drafting season from
Septembe-. Is to September 20. will be
given over to the major leagues exclu-
sively. Two days will then be allowed
to elapse and the class "A league clubs
will have a ten days drafting season
Then the leagues of lower classification
will have their season in the order of
their classification.
One of the principal changes in the
agreement was the price to be paid by
major league clubs for minor league
players who are drafted. 1t follows:
To class "A, 81. 800 instead of $1,000;
class A, 81. 500 instead of 81 600; class B,
81, 200 instead of $3.50; class c, $3.50 in
stead of $780, and class D $500 instead
of $500.
Only One Loss by Draft.
Glass IA league clubs are permitted
to draft from any league of a lower
classification including the class A, pro
Vided that the latter class club has not
lost player by draft to the major
leagues.
The limit of the number of players
which can be carried on the reserve list
was also revised and follows
Major league clubs. So; class IA. 80:
class A. %; class B. 26; class c, "a; no
regulation was made for the class d
From May to August 20, major
league clubs care restricted to % players |
while the restriction in the minor
leagues are.
Glass AA. 20; class A. IS; class B. Is; |
class c. a. No provision was made for
class y.
Heretofore the National Association
of Minor League Clubs paid an annual |
assessment to the national commission |
of $1,000. This was done away with
upon recommendation of President |
Johnson, of the American league and in |
the future the commission will stand /
the 0nE1Te expense OI running 1LSetI.
This is the result of the healthy re- |
ceipts from the recent worlds cham
pionsllip series. as well as the inter-
city series which were under the aus
pieces of the commission.
Cuts Minor Players Salary.
Another rule which has a bearing on
all minor league players was passed at
the request of the minors themselves.
1t holds that no major league club be
allowed to pay a player who is under 4
proba tionary- contract more than % per
cent of the salary he received from the
minor league club from which he was
claimed. In regard to this 1t was ex-
planned that the players frequently
were given a huge salary for the Is
days of probationary play with the
major leagues, only to be thrust back
into the minor and become dissatisfied
over the much smaller salary there
Hereafter all major league ball play
ars and clubs viii be prohibited from
playing exhibition games in minor
eague towns without the consent of the
home club. while the same rule applies
20 minor league players and minor