Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-31
kEENER RIVALRY NEEDED
|IENER THINKS PLAYERS
REQUIRE NEW INCENTIVE
TNw Dirision OF World SeYie. Rcce,rt,
gro That Second
|& DiNlsior Ciubs Participate

~ DiNIstOr CUBA PNrtfctpate.
7 NEW YORK. December 3o.-presi
Kent John *. Tener. OF the Nationa
4 fAague. wants TO greater rivalry
4 Nm the part of players and clubs.
T3sHe believes there should be a ncu,
Ian put into operation which would
y Five players and clubs something more
Il 20 fight for than pennant and the
L tonor OF participating in the worlds
y Reries.
s Mr.. Teners plan. as placed before
! he National League meeting here,
hounds feasible. and, although il will
+ necessarily have 10 be sanctioned by
The American League before it can be
ball men ,hat steps will he taken to
! tdopt II.
W According 10 Nix. Tener. the plan
" can be worked out through changes
7 in the division of receipts from worlds
aeries games. He suggests. by way
OF example. that the players on the
4 winning club in the annual series be
!, given si.1o0 each. and the players on
= the losing club $1,000 each. The re-
+ maindcr OF whatever percentage of
the total receipts he agreed on for
= the players end could be distributed
8 between the players OF all teams in
I the big leagues. and the sums to
& players graduated with respect to each
= teams anish in the percentage column.
s This plan. Mr.. Tenor is confident.
" -
5 teres; among the players. Clubs in
S the second division IN both leagues
\ will eight harder to finish as strong
I. as t,.y possibly can. and the quality
of baseball served to the rams Will
:. I've proDcrtionately faster, Whlc rlNatrN
=. will Is. uppermost.
II has been pointed out that the
Brooklyn players. who received checks
for $500 each for the poor showing
the, made III tho 1915 series with the
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ball solons believe that with st'pu-
lated amount for the players the sys-
tenn will he mach iairer to every one
concerned. and that ruling OF TINS
kind VIII no; detract from the spirit oil
the teams lighting for the worla
T championship
THO need Of stimulating interest in
the major leagues is apparently al
mos; as great as IL Is III the MINORS.
for under the Tcner plan inaJor-le"6ue
players will be lighting Tor INC same
results as will the players in the Amer
lean Association and the International
League under tho plan for their inter
league series next fall.
Charles Holiday Ebbsts docs rot be
lievc that the present drafting rule is
fair to all clubs. lie would have the
rule changed - that instead &c clubs
putting in drafts for players and nam
ing the players, second division clubs
De given the privilege o. tthihE ilSl
choice OF drafted players in order that
they may be streug ,hened. t.hbcts
would give tho club which Is III last
nlacc first choice ~ drafted players.
the club in seventh second choice ana
so up the ladder. When the lead
ing club selected player the system
could be gone over again many
times as necessary.
Barney Dreyfus also has draftinE
plan, but it is u biz different from that
OF the BROOKLYN magnate. Barney
thinks that instead nf naming players,
the clubs putting in drafts should
name clubs and leagues, and In the
business OF drafting clubs should get
flrst choice of minor clubs and leagues
Instead Of naming the players as they
do now and taking chance on eei
ling or losing them. preytus points
out that in many cases where one club
needs shortstop and another an out
felder, the chances OF landing such
players would he enhanced by naming
clubs or leagues and drawing for the
privilege OF taking !irst choice II
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