Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-28
MINOR LEAGUES
WANT GUARANTEES
Will Not Submit to Proposed Re
organization Under Plans
Outlined.
By Associated Press TO Every Evening

By Associated Press TO Every Evening
New York. Oct. 2S.--The minor leagues
will refuse to become party TO the re-
organization of baseball under the pro-
posed Lasker plan unless radical changes
are made in the scheme, 1t was learned
here today. Minor league officials claim
the system provides for government with
out representation and restoration OF the
draft which the minors have been hghting
for years.
Several conferences have been held in
various parts of the country and 1t has
been informally decided to oppose the
plan unless it is altered. 1t is claimed that
under the Iaskcr system 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 por-
tion of the resolutions adopted by the ma
Tor league clubs in favor of the plan which
reads:
THAT this board of control and its
chairman shall be selected by n majority
vote of the clubs of the National League
and the clubs of the American League,
who shall on or before November l, 1870,
have signifed their acQuiescence IN the
plan provided IN these resolutions at
meeting hereby called TO be held In Chl-
cago, November s, 1920.
According TO a prominent Western
minor Lacquer the plan, as disclosed during
an informal conference between major
league club president and himself. re-
Quires the minors TO accept representa-
tive on the commission already selected by
the majors.
President David /. Fultz OF the new
International League said:
The Laskcr plan contains the same
fundamental error Of government as the
ono upon which the national agreement
rode to its fall Ii provides that minor as
we'll as major leagues shall be controlled
bv a board OF three men who are to be
chosen solely by the major leagues; the
minors NAV offer suggestions, but the
voting power rests entirely with the ma
iars. This board is To have complete con-
troll. not only over the relations that exist
between minors and majors, but over
their internal affairs as well. IL is neces-
sarv only 10 point out this error IN the plan
TO show why il cannot be accepted by the
minor leagues.
.'Ther are now over 20 minor leagues In
existence and normally twice that many.
They employ a dozen times as many play
ers as the majors. They play In approx
imately l75 cities while the majors play
IN onlv ten. Eight or nine of these clubs
each made larger profits last season than
a number of the 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 nation al
repute in no wise financially interested in
haseball whose salaries are TO be paid
from the receipts 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 tradi-
tions of the game and the pecullarltles OF
the PLAYERS and owners. These men, being
In strange position, will necessarily
have TO seek advisors. Can there be any
doubt that those advisors will he the men
who select them and pay them their
sslaries7
The statement is made that ma
joritv Of the minors are In favor Of this
plan. This must be taken with q gram cf
salt. We know OF eight league presidents
who are unalterably opposed, and while
v-c 90 not speak with authority for M ,hC
minors. II Is safe to say that at the Kansas
CITY meeting they will pass a resolution
wishing the majors every possible success
IN cleaning house. and pledCing their Co
operation IN every way except where II
affects their right of self government, bur;
fhis right tney will not urrender under
Any consideration: