The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-12
LANDS CONTROLS BASEBALL FOR
 AT LEAST z YEARS
Minor Leagues Adopt New Scale of Player and
 Salary Limits
By Associated Press

By Associated Press Chicago, January Il. - Organized
 baseball in the United States today virtually was brought under the con trol of Federal Judge Kennesaw M. the drafting committees of the Nation al Association of Minor leagues of ficially voted approval of the new na- tional agreement, already accepted by
 the two major league committees, which creates the offices of baseball commissioner with supreme powers and with Judge Lands as .tbe first incumbent. All that remains 10 put the agree
 ment into effect is the official ap-
 proval of the various leagues rep resentatives as a whole, which prob ably will be given tomorrow Base ball men tonight said the presentation of the agreement to the club owners tomorrow would be mere formality'' and that the action of the drafting committees virtually constituted for mal acceptance by all the parties con- cerned.
 MAJORS C0NCEDE DEMANDS The minor leaguers. reported a few
 
 the new agreement on the ground that it would not give them a fair deal, to- 1 day found the majors ready to con- cede the new demands made by the smaller circuits. Expressing them selves as satisfied with Judge IAandis as baseball commissioner. the minor leaguers were doubtful as to whether a man agreeable to them would be chosen when Judge Landis term ex- Ix,t~ I.x.k la tied by the proposition from the ma jors that the minors sign the agree ment for only seven years-the term of Judge Landis' contract. At the end of that time, if new commi ssioner is chosen, either a man who meets with the approval of the minors must be chosen or they may withdraw from the agreement.
 The advisory board provided in the agreement to settle baseball disputes will tccntain two minor league representatives under the new agreement, the other two
 members to be the presidents of the na- tional and the American leagues When this board is unable to settle any dis pute, the case will go before Judge Ian- dis as baseball commissioner and his de- cision will be final. The minor league representatives will be selected tomor- rcw
 hEio LURE Dhafl The minor league representatives at their meeting today, voted to restore the draft, but made reservations to the re- storaton, which does not make it com pulsory. Any league so desiring may remain out of the draft and the Amer ican association and the new Interna- tional league announced their intention o. not taking part in it. Leagues which do not take part in the general draft itpin ha tr, ft from leagues which do go in, but may draft from each other. The Pacific Coast league, the only Class IA organ ization, will take part in the draft The draft season was made from Oc- tober 15 to October 20 and the draft prices were set as follows: Class AA. $500; Class A, $4oDo Class E. B, ,5o0s Class C., si500 Class D, s1 ,0oo I The draft price of 5000 for Class AA 1 leagues was the one recently suggested l by, major league representatives. Many 1 of the minor leagues thought $7,500 should be the price.
 The minor leaguers also established a new scale of player and salary limits as | follows:
 Class AA---No salary limit; 35 players until 30 days after season opens and then 25. This gave the Class A leagues virtually the same rules as are | in effect for the major leagues. l Class A-Salary limit of s4,450; player limit of 30 for first 30 days and 20 l thereafter.
 l Class B-Salary limit of s3,20O and player limit of 20 for 30 days and 16 | thereafter.
 l Class C-SaIary limit of $2.650, and
 player limit of IS for 30 days and IA | thereafter.
 | Class D-Salary limit of $2,400 and
 player limit of 1s for 30 days and IA I thereafter.
 1 Failure to live up to these limits will
 result in fine of $100 for the first of l fense iS200 if the case is not rectified in 1 10 days. and then a fine of $500 and de- cision by the national board of control.
 The club owners decided to classify /, leagues on the basis of the last federal census instead of the school census, and under the following scale; 1 Leagues with 250,0o0 to 1000. .0oo population, Class B.
 Leagues with 10000 tho 25o,ooo population, Class c.
 Leagues under 15o,ooo population, l Class T..
 Classes A and A will remain as at present-more than 100000 popula- | ltion. The annual meeting of the as -
 sociation will be held the first Tues
 day in December hereafter and mus | take place in a city represented in the association.
 I Besides acting on the new national 1 agreement tomorrow and selecting it's advisory board members, the associa- l ton expects to take action concerning five minor league players who were alleged to have played ball on the Pacific coast this winter, with Fred McMullin, Chicago White Sox player, l indicted for alleged complicity5 in
 throwing games in the 1919 worlds