Evening star., 1916-12-15
COMISKEY HAS LITTLE CHANCE
TO TRADE SCOTT FOR CHAPMAN
Cleveland's Infelder Is Considered One of
Cleverest Players In American League
Mitchell to Manage Cubs.

stood for Tinker. The other heavy
stockholders in the Chicago club took
| decided stand against Tinker. whom
they charged with not being a man.
ager competent to ever get a team well
up in the race.
Conditions on the team will be mate
rally changed under Mitchell, who has
oetter conception of how ball players
should be treated and is sure to be
more popular with them and get their
| best efforts.
Giving up the draft of the American
association clubs, as requested by a
committee of that organization. has NOT
struck the favor of the National
League owners. and in their session
YESTERDAY the proposition was delib-
1t would be the rufnation of hasa ha1,
70 obilterate the draft. Major leapue
ciuns must have way of adyancinp
young players. without being compeIl
eu 10 purchase them all, and incident
aily II would be hardship for young
payers of promise, who would yerY
nkely be deprived of getting a real
chance in fast company.
ihe American League has not vet
.aken action in the present instance,
ana there is not much hope of it com,
plying with the request of dropping the
drafting system. 'Ae
~ course. the minor leagues of high
ciass would be greatly benefited by
being relieved of the draft but Inder
existing conditions neither Of the two
oIs ieagues Is going to make any
changes in the. rules which have a
tendency to handicap them.
During a general discussion on NAV
ing rules by the National League
moguis in New York, as to finding a
way to increase the hitting, one sug-
gestion from John B. Foster of the New
fo,,i li, tlup was to abolish the second
s eou! strike. In other words, only the
nrst pail hit by a batsman would be
| recorded against him as strike.
John Heydler, secretary of the league.
olereo the suggestion that batsmen
pc awarded first base on three balls in
stead of four. He argued that the rec
ords show that the leading batsmen
get by far the greater number of bases
on ti oaIis. and does not think that cut
cras c,ns o4wn to three balls would in
Furthermore. he believes it would
make the pitchers more careful and
would greatly help base-running, as the
p..sners w.st you'd be able to pitch few
on further discussion it was the opin-
| ION OF the league leaders that the pres
enI batting decline is largely due to
aptthe,aI sntt sn, pitching aids. such as the
| spiI Dali. the resin ball and the emery
ball. The last two have already been
eliminated, and now 1t is suggested by
the National League also to put the ban
| on the spit ball.
however. In that event, the splitter is
ruled against by the joint rules COM
mlttee, and the National League sug-
gests that two years of warning be
given pitchers, so that those using this
deilVery may have a reasonable op-
portunity of learning and experimenting
with other forms of the pitching art.
The American League revised the
world series admission prices at a
| meeting of the club owners last night
at Chicago. 1t was decided unanimous
~. at the suggestion of President Ban
Johnson. to charge only double the
| regular season price of admission.
The new scale will be SO cents for
b!eacher seats. 81 for seats in the pa
Vllion and $1.5O and 81 for seats in
| the grandstand. Box seats, however,
| will sell for So. Heretofore 81 was
usually the lowest price Of admission.
The owners also decided to enforce
the rule stopping players from writing
! newspaper articles, or permitting their
names to be used in connection with
| them.
Under former rule, the player, If
given the consent of the club owner,
could do the newspaper writing on
| world series games and other events.
but it was decided to abolish the prac-
tice.