Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08
ORGANIZED BALL
HASv' I 50 MUCH.
0EFE0 LEAGUE
That's What Menke Says, and
He Cites List of Players to
Prove Statement,
BIZ Frank G. M.enke.

n T EWs YORK, April S.-ClutchinE
IN tArpm the remarks being cast
= ker and thither by organ
lied bas ball. the Federal League is
mi Gague proposition. But or
gan NsasebaIrs own little rules
give tile Federal League major
league status.
These rules show the difference be-
tween a tni1or and major league.
league THAT has to conform to a sal.
airy limit land whose players are SUBJ
iect to draft bv teams in another
league Is minor league. a league
that has no salary limit and whose
players are not subject to draft is
major league.
Therefore, the Feds stack UP as a
major league. They pay unlimited
salaries and their players are not
subject tp draft.
I T may lie recalled that early in Jam
uarx when the Feds began TO loom
largely on The baseball horizon some
OF the naagnates of the organized
majors thought that q way to combat
the Feds would be to abolish the draft
rule as applied to the Class "A
teams Ut these leagues pay unlimit
ed salsI.e sand thus lift them to the
majorN eagde classification.
For 4 time it looked as if the plan
would 30 through, but some of the
magtlates of the majors were so sure
fiat the Feds would blow up before
the 1914 season opened that they
Thought HE move a foolish one Yet,
a I the time, the majority of the mag
mates dealarad that the players of the
class "A minors were of such caliber
4t IL. 90 4
that sonic Of the best clubs in the
Class A minors were Jar better than
/ some OF The clubs in either the Amer
tican or National League.
n THEREFORE. it seems as il the or
ganized persons. who are calling
he Feds minor league outfit seem
, he foazIing a bit. The Feds, for
Ae most part, are made. up Of players
sabbed 6from either the majors or
seast( ii ts E4of Ranks win sn 81 " siSs
piectic- ~ the rest Of their players
Fetnits5l -srom the Glass "A teams,
H'tcertFln that they take even a
lliAer ranking than do the Glass AA
aas-theoSery same teams hat the
orsnisa6 EAljors some months back
dg1ed q, giving a major league
staas.
I lsFED among the "ah-star" COM
- linations of pitchers is that OF
the betroit Tigers Their sil-stars
consst Of Dauss. Dubuc, Hall. Shep-
ard. lCaYet Coveleskie, Williams.
Schutz, Mains, Reynolds, Comstock
and tSoeftier. Maybe they are stars,
but sSmebody ought to push away
the clhds that hide them
The Pttsburg Pirates also boast Of
their bll-star' pitching staff. Here
IL Is; MeQuHlen O'Toole Adams.
Hapnoa Councilman, Delhi. Duffey
and sKantlehner The last four seem
quite unfamiliar to us-perhaps be-
Gauss we didn't follow the bush
league history very closely last year.
McQtAlen was .resufretted from the
niinols last season. and Harmon
seems to have seen his,NerY besttdays
Included in the an Stars that the
PHILLIPS sge t0ting around are lineup,
Mayet Marshall, Jacobs, Gaddy and
Haislil. III the whole bunch We're
placed on the market right now its
doubtful If tfiey would Bring enough
money 10 buy one good ffrstclas
twirlef
The pirates had On their catching
staff Messrs. Gibson Coleman, Ka
fore. Brannigan and Wait, The name
Of Gibson seems quite familiar. but
we don't recall having seen the names
cf the other gentlemen in the list OF
catching stars.
AND so IL is with 4 large number of
"a the organized major league clubs.
Their catching and pitching STATS are
pretty well cluttered up with IN
~ IL.