Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-13
NATIONAL LEAGUE ADOPTS
TWENTY-ONE PLAYER RULE
special Meeting Held Yesterday and
Number OF Important
Changes Made.
WON'T COUNT DISABLED MEN
Players May BE Transferred From
Active List II Hurt-Those Under
Suspension Are to Count -au
Owners. Agree.

NEW YORK. July 12-At a spccia1
meeting Of the National League call
ed By President Tener at the leagues
headquarters hero to-day, the rule
making the player limit twenty-one
for each club. which has remained in
allegiance since it was proposed last
December. was unanimously adop,ed.
All the club presidents were present.
NO player under suspension will be
included in the list of disabled play
crs. Tor whom other players can BIO
substituted. hut the rule has been
made sufficiently elastic 70 enable n
strength through any of its team
members being injured or rendered
useless from playing standard
through illness
a suspended player must be count
ed In the twenty-onc limit, and tho
only recourse for club in such
case Is TO appeal TO the National Com
case Of Catcher Larry Mclean. of the
New York Nationals. was discussed in
connection with this rule.
ing J tbo ing IS me new rule govern
ablcd list: "''
l. Request to have players name
: :.Jisshish , from the active 70 the
inc president of the league by tho
president employing club within for
tyofisht hours after injury occurs. and
the players disability and when and
where incurred
2 y player placed on the disabled"
list viii not he allowed 10 partIcInato
as player in "A championship game
for at least ten GO consecutive davs
including the day of his injury Dur
ing such period, however, the player
Will be allowed 10 act as coacher
3. The names OF all players certified
as disabled" shall be officially bul.
lct!ncd TO the club presidents
Pat
President Drcyfuss. OF PITTSBURGH.
brought 10 the attention Of the meet
ing ms claim on the services OF Pitch
versity OF Michigan. and now plavinr
with tho ST. Louis Americans II was
the sense o! those present however
ma, as IN" Pit,shurGh clubs case was
~ the hands OF the National Commits
sion. no action could he taken.
AftHr tho meeting Presiden, Tener
said that this wss the FIRST Of regular
which. AT his suggestion. would be
held until the end OF the pla aging sea-
son II" considered thar such sessions
were necessary for an interchange OF
ideas and the discussion OF affairs in
general for the welfare OF the league
Just as In other big business enter
prises. These meetings are 10 be call
ed BY the president. and while some
OF them may be held when the East
ern clubs are on the Western circuits
most OF them would take place in New
kept.
President Ganney announced that
the new Boston grounds would ba
ready for the inaugural game durini,
the latter part Of August. All the
clubs were requested to procure tar
paulin coverings for their diamonds in
case of rain, as IT was said that some
OF this seasons postponcments could
have been avoided had such coverings
been used.
When asked II the club owners had
discussed the Federal League or its
players at to-day'S meeting. President
Tcncr replied:
we did not. except in a very in
cidental way. We are mlndinG our
own business. and do not see WIZ
we should discuss that organization at
this time. if ever. All OF our club
presidents arc we'll satisfied with tho
season thus far The pcnnant race is
close one, and every club owner
seems to think ne has chance to
win the championship. and they arc
all happy"