Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-07
NO WORRYING AT sMOKEHoUsE
Delay Due to Its Still Being Early
in the Season.
LIFE IN BASE BALL CIRCLES
New Rules of The Commission Are
Under Discussion.
IDEAS OF PA FREELY EXPRESSED
Talks About the Salaries, the Erect
They Will Have ANA Just What
VIII Happen When Draft
ing is Done.

Pa Rourke is serenoly awaiting the
return OF the contracts which he sent
20 twenty-eight players last Tuesday.
Up to last night not a signed contract
lad been received, but Rourse accredts
the non-appeayanco of signed contracts
- the fact that IL is still very early
and he does not think that he will get
any, of them back before the last of this
week, or the first of the next.
Things are picking up In base bah cir
cles in the city and the Stove league
is putting in some stiff verbal practice
and many new recruits are trying out
FOR various places in this sacred organ
ization.
The action of the National commission
caused much surprise and comment
around the smoke house when the an
nouncement was made that the commits
sion had granted practically every re-
quest made by the minors and then
some. Rourke was especially pleased
with the outcome of the meeting and
said: The commission gave us every
thing we asked Tor and seemed TO take
Some sock in our accusations that GER
tain major league magnates were simply
acting as brokers. and buying and draft
ing players lelA anu llShA, oiiilpiS "
sell them at an advanced figure,
Under Rules Adopted.
Under the rules adopted by the COM
mission the majors will not carry as
many players as they have in the past
and they will not do SO much buying and
drafting. Base ball in general will be
helped by the action taken by the COM
mission. The salaries will not be made
lower under the new rules, but base bali
Will be boosted and the team managers
win carry only the best men on their
lists.
with the draft prices raised the
majors will be more careful in selecting
their players, as they will not have as
good chance to get rid of them as they
have in the past.
THE ball players from Glass A and
the lower classes will be sent to the
majors only on probation and the team
which sends a man up will have the
first chance to get him back, and he
will not be credited as being a major
league player. For instance, may
send a man up to the majors whom /
have been paying a salary of $500 a
month. When he gets to the majors
he viii rece' An increase of 20 per cent
in his salar III he fails to make good,
he comes back to me at that salary
If the player makes good ne will be paid
q major league payers salary and viii
then be acclaimed a regular major
Lacquer.
Another good thing which was secured
by the minors at the meeting was the
fact that a bail player may be sold
early in the season and If the team he
is playing with needs his services he
does not have to go until after the
season, but the Glass IA is hit harder
II Class IA team sells a player to the
major leagues. that player is sold for
immediate delivery.
THE following draft prices were fixed
by the commission: The majors ana
Glass AA clubs must pay S16VO for a
Glass A player; $3.50 Tor a Glass b,
1900 for Class c, and 500 for a Class
ID man. The majors must pay s2,0VO
as a draft price for Glass AA player.