The Washington times., 1914-02-11
WILL MAKE RULES
FOR EVERY CRISIS
Basebas Most Vital Regulations win Undergo Thorough Over
hauling as Protection for Future-Though Failing,
-. Federas Have Hepe Organized Game. =
By THOMAS KIRBY.

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-No matter
what decision is finally reached IN the
triumvirate league convention in session
here, Il can now be asserted without
equivocation that before the passing Of
another year, many Of the most vital
rifles in organized baseball will be great
ly changed to face any crisis, such as
the Federal League has offered this win.
ter.
Considering the millions involved,
some Of the props upon which the game
rests are so weak and fimsy rs to offer
little resistance should outsiders attempt
TO invade the fields over which the pres
ent leagues has such Czarlike sway.
The cocksureness of some of those who
are supposed to be ever on the alert,
caused all the trouble which the Feds
have caused.
It is within our knowledge that a
Washington man, a close follower Of the
game and one whose business affairs
compel him to travel extensively, warn
ed the powers that be in Chicago, as
carly as last October that the Federal
movement had reached such proportions
as 70 call for a defensive plan from the
organized baseball people.
Such an assertion merely drew forth
a grin rom the supposedly wise one, and
il was not until the past few weeks that
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awakened to the realization Of the i'm
portance Of the Federal movement. Had
all organized managers been cautioned
10 get their men under contract without
the slightest delay, New York would not
today be entertaining and being enter
tanned by the largest group Of baseball
i1oguts that has ever gathered at one
place.
Even though the Federal proposition
fa d-zyindlinC Gilmore naarhF1oaT1 aud
the rest of the outlaws have done z
lasting favor to organized baseball.
They have made the admitted authoH-
ties IN the game take a wider, saner
and safer view Of the general scheme
Of the game. That the bulwarks of
baseball will be strengthened in the
next twelve months an attempt made
70 find a substitute for the reserve
clause, and managers will be instructed
10 get their charges bound up as tight
as is legally possible. may now be as
serted without fear of contradiction.
Another plan will be trying to get
each municipality to draft building
regulations that will bar wooden stands
and will force the specifications for all
plants to come up TO the other fireproof-
ing laws. This would mean there would
be no. possibility to throw up hasty
stands, as the Feds have been trying to
do, and the new arrangement would re-
quiTe sush vast financial Outlays that
an independent league could not make
much Of a threat until It had enlisted
large capital. In the meantime, organ
izSd baseball would be afforded ample
opportunity to arrange it's affairs to
stop an invasion.
Arthur Irwin, scout of the New York
Yanks, is conspicuous around the Wal
dOrf. telling how he saved some of the
Chancemen when Fed fiirtations threat
ened to ALLEVIATE them from this city.
Irwin has the unique distinction of hav-
a nf-Vf
that completed its journey without a
single payday. He was leader of the
Union League club that Al Lawson
placed in Washington a few years ago
In pointing out how useless it would
be in trying to tinker with the rules
10 do away with the intentional pass.
Charley Doom, the Phillies manager,
today said that when the emergency
should arise al the pitcher would have
10 do would be to hit the batter. Doom
Joins Clark Griffith in asking that the
rule be left severaly alone.
Charles W. Murphy, the human vic
trola, is about the hotel wearing a vest
that makes a noise like tray Of dishes
falling off the Washington Monument
Mr.. Murphy is suffering from a severe
attack Of lurnbago, and, as result
-gro. ~ tht ars get a chance to
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