The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-28
MINOR LEAGUES WILL
 OPPOSE LASKER PLAN
New Baseball Organization Says Fultz, Would Give Con trol of Both Major and Minor League Baseball
 to Men Who Do Not Know the Game

New York, Oct 2S - The minor leagues will refuse to become party to the reorganization of baseball un- der the proposed Lasker plan, unless radical changes are made in the scheme, it was learned here today. Minor league officials claim the sys- tenn provides for government without Representation and restoration of the draft, which the minors have been 1 lighting for years.
 | Several conferences have been held | in various parts of the country and it | has been informally decided to op- pose the plan unless it is altered. It | is claimed that under the Lasker sys- | tenn the minor leagues which control more players and territory and have more money invested in baseball than the majors. are literally without voice | in the proposed government of the game.
 This claim is based in part upon a portion of the resolutions adopted by the major league clubs in favor of the plan which reads:
 '.That this board of control and its chairman shall be selected by a ma jority vote of the clubs of the Ma tional League and the clubs of the American League, who shall on or before Nov. 1, 1920, have signified their acquiescence in the plan pro- ing hereby called to be held in Chi cago Nov. 8, 1920"
 According to a prominent Western minor leaguer the plan as disclosed during an informal conference be- tween a major league club president and himself requires the minors to accept a representative on the com mission already selected by the ma jors.
 President David L. Fultz of the New International League said:
 '"The Lasker plan contains the same fundamental error of government as the one upon which the national agreement rode to its fall. It provides that minor as well as major leagues shall be controlled by a. board of three men who are to be chosen solely by the major leagues; the minors may offer suggestions but the voting power rests entirely with the mai ajOrS.
 To Control Game.
 ''This board is to have complete control not only over the relations that exist between minors and ma jors but aver their internal affairs this error in plan to show why it cannot be accepted by the minor league.
 There are now over twency minor leagues in existence and normally twice that many. They employ q dozen times as many players as the majors. They plan approximately one hundred and seventy five cities while the majors play in only ten. Eight or nine of these clubs each made larger profits last season than number of major league clubs, and the aggregate capital invested in their plants exceeds that invested by the majors.
 '"The Lasker plan provides that the board is to be composed of men of national repute, in no wise finan- cial1y interested in baseball" whose salaries are to be paid from the re- ceipts of the world series. The greater the national repute'' of the men selected, the less they will know about the legislation, the customs and the traditions of the game and the pecuIiarities of the players and owners. These men, being in a strange advisors. Can there be any doubt that these advisers will be the men who select them and pay their salaries?
 ''The statement is made that ma jority of the minors are in favor of this plan. This must be taken with a grain of salt. We know of eight league presidents who are unaltera- bly, opposed, and while we do not speak with authority for all the min- ors it is safe to say that at the Kan sas City meeting they will pass a res o1ution wishing the majors every possible success in cleaning house. and p1edging their cooperation in every way except where it affects their right of self government but this right they will not surrender un- der any consideration