Arizona republican., 1920-11-10
JOHNSON INSISTS BASEBALL REMAIN IN HANDS IF MEN FOLLOWING GAME
American League President Says Lasker Plan Devised to Deceive Public-Minor Shakeup Not Evident.
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KANSAS CITY, Nov. 9.-A plea to have the National Association of Minor Leagues appoint a committee of three to meet with similar committee from the National and American leagues in an effort to avert baseball war and form a new governing body to control the game was made to the minor leaguers in convention here tonight.
 President Ban Johnson of the Amer ican league and c. w. Miller of Chi cago. attorney for the league, appeared before the minor leaguers and urged them to show no favor to either side fin the major league dispute, but asked that a committee be appointed to act in the event the National league could be persuaded to join in the proposal.
 President Johnson declared that he was fin favor of granting the minor leagues equal representation on the new national commission, sharing an equal power with American and Ma tional leagues.
 The American league executive said tho management of baseball should re- main In the hands of men who have given their lives to its development declaring they were better qualified to cleanse the sport of it's crookedness than anyone outside of the game. He declared his opposition to the Lasker plan and urged the minor leaguers to remain neutral fin the major league fight if they decided not to endorse the proposal to appoint a representative committee in an effort to bring about harmony.
 After revealing the inside story" of tho situation, which resulted in the break of the major leagues, Attorney Miller explained his opposition to the adoption of the Lasker plan. He said that the plan had It's inception in the idea that something must be done with the public" to offset the scandel revealed in the world series of 1919.
 T think the baseball loving public is as hard to bunk as the average baseball man." MT. Miller said, "and il we arc going to reorganize baseball let us reorganize 1t on a sound, sane and practical basis that win get us somewhere and not with the idea oi decefving the public into believing thai we are doing something that we arc not doing.
 The first conception of the Laskei plan is that a commission of eminent and distinguished gentlemen. wh' stand so high in the estimation of tho public that the very mention of theil names will carry with it an evidence of good faith. be selected to take
 
 think those men could come anywhere near stamping gambling out of base ball than you men who have been il the game all your lives? We thinl that the men who are to constitute thu supreme court of baseball. or at leas a majority of them, should be prac tical baseball men"
 No Action by Minors
 The minor leagues adjourned with out taking any action on the recon n1endation of the American league of fIcia9s. but the sentiment prevailed to Eirht that the Lasker plan would re Asfve no consideration from the minor at this time. August Hermann. owne of tho Cincinnati Nationals. and for nner chairman of the national commis sion. will address the minor leaguer tomorrow to explain the stand of tn proponents of the Lasler plan.
 President Johnson of the America league, in his address to the@ mino leagues, characterized A. D. Laslxer ( Chicago, sponsor of the Lasker plan fc baseball reorganization as "one wh has not shed his swaddling clothes basebalr and declared that the minor
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