The New York herald., 1921-01-16
HITCH IN BARGAIN
FOR MARANVILLE
Magnates Separate With Moth
ing Doing-Dodgers to
Play Browns.
BY WILLIAM II. HANNA.

Rabbit Maranville is still the property
of the Boston club and will remain so
Indefinitely so far as any immediate
prospect of a deal is concerned. John
McGraw is on his way back to Cuba
and Charles Stoneham is back in New
York after the Chicago meeting. He
will head back to Cuba next Saturday,
and he reports that the various clubs
interested in n complex deal Of players
are no nearer to it than at the start.
George Grant of the Braves was not won
over by the Plttsburg offer OF players
and no headway has. been made with the
New York club There's lots of time,
though, fer a trade before the opening
Of the training season.
The champion Brooklyns will play
other American Leaguers in the South
than> the Yankees this spring. They
have Booked four games with the St.
Louis Browns. Two will be played In
Bogalusa, La. where the Brownies will
train. on March ) and 16, and two in
New Orleans on March 2s and 20.
Bert Griffith, the outfelder recently
acquired from Birmingham; Eugene
Sheridan, infielder. and Harold E. Gold
smith, pitcher. have been released by
Brooklyn to the New Orleans club.
Chafles Ebbets says that in not at
tending the meeting of the draft COM
mittees in Chicago last week he did not
shirk his duty lie was member or
the National League draft committee on
the new national agreement and with
the signing of the document by the Ma
tional League clubs in New York last
month he regarded the work of that
committee as finished. severe cold
delayed him in getting to Chicago, and
he was not sure there was to be q meet
ing of the committees there.
Mr. Ibhets is the author Of the new
form of drafting players from the minor
leagues which the majors are expected
to adopt and which in substance is as
follows:
There shall be sixteen draft Sc
lections, numbered from to 16,
which shall be awarded to the six
teen major league clubs in the follow
ing manner:
The National League and the
American League shall determine by
lot which league shall have the odd
numbered selections and which the
even numbered for season of 1921
reverse annually thereafter. The
league securing the odd numbers shall
award selection No. 1 to its eighth
place club. No. 3 to the seventh
place club, and so on up. to the lead
ing club of the league. which shall
receive selection No. 3. The league
securing the even numbers snail
award selection No. 3 to its eighth
place club, No. to the seventh place
club, and so on up to the leading
club of the league, which shall re-
ceive selection No. 16. These awards
TO be designated thirty days before
the official drafting date. in accord
ance with the standing OF each club
in its respective league at that time.
The sixteen major league clubs, rep
resented by officials of their .respec-
tive clubs at the drafting meeting.
shall. as their numbers are am
nounced in numerical order have the
right to make n free selection of one
player Cor two, If so agreed), nam
ing player. club and league, from any
minor league club. subject to draft.
When the club holding selection No
I6 has named it's draft selection. then
commence again with selection No. l.
The restriction relative to the num-
ber of players subject to draft from
a National Association club to re-
main in force precisely as now pro-
vidcd for in the National Agreement.
When a clubs list of eligible players
tincluding those drafted at the meet
ing, shall total thirty-five. then said
club or clubs shall de debarred from
further selection at said drafting
meeting. A club having announced
it's draft selection in proper order
cannot thereafter cancel its selection
or draft