New Britain herald., 1915-02-11
RADICAL CHANGES
 IN WAIVER RULE
No Monkey Business Hereafter iD
 the National League.

New York, Feb. 11.-More :legisla- ton hostile to the Giants was passed by the honorable National league magnates yesterday, when the Julius Fieischmann n-Withdrawable waiver rule was squeezed through the league bXAa two hirds vote. It needed six vq4e es to ,,pass the measure, and just Ia led. the requisite one-half dozen, as lhes Giants and Pirates voted against it.
 The new rule provides that when a club asks for waivers on g. player, such waivers cannot be withdrawn. The league further voted that any club which claims a player via the waiver route may not withdraw it's claim when the president awards a player to such a club.
 Another amendment passed to the old waiver rule was that henceforth only the club president is authorized to ask for waivers on a player or claim players. It was pointed out that heretofore managers have frequently asked waivers on players, and when other clubs refused to waive it was discovered that the manager over stepped his authority in asking for waivers.
 The entire rule on waivers was patched up, and it dealt at length with waivers on drafted players. Accord ing to the old rule, when a club sends a drafted player to another club for the waiver price, a sum of S250 was added to the waiver price. which recompensed the selling club for the fodder consumed by the young ath- lete at training headquarters. The new rule sliced off the $25O.
 Sliding Scale of Prices.
 A sliding scale of waiver prices on drafted players, running up to a maximum price of $1,50O, was adopted. The league also defined a drafted player as a player coming into the league by draft, who does not spend complete season in the major leagues Tn other words, Piez who was with the Giants all of last season, has ceased to be a drafted player, as he has been in the league an entire season.
 The inability of a club to withdraw waivers may be a hardship to a club like the Giants, and big boon to a chronic secand- division invalid. Sup pose the Giants wanted to send a player like Schupp or Piez out for seasoning Formerly they could have asked waivers, and if any clubs re- fused to waive, they could have kept the desired player on the bench rather than let him go.
 Now as soon as the Giants send out feelers on one of their youngsters, they automatically lose their title to such a player as soon as the club re- fuses to waive, and as all clubs must cut down to twenty-one players by next May 1, some twenIy-n1ne young Giants must be put through the waiver machine.
 As Jim Gaffney rightly put it: "What are we gonna do with all these young fellows? The minor leagues have enough trouble, and don't want any more players while we are not allowed to keep them.'
 Magnates Twice ill Session.
 Two sessions were held yesterday the schedule being passed at the morning session, while most of the afternoon was taken up in a discus sion of the changes to the waiver rule. The subject of the Bronx invasion was not brought up, while the request of the Class A leagues for exemption from the draft did not come before the house.
 Barney Dreyfuss' schedule calls for tho following mileage:
 C1ub Miles.