The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-15
BUYING FLAGS
LATE IN SEASON
PUT UNDER BAN
Believes Rex Thomas Will
Be ReinstateN "if JUS
tice Is Done"

g.. The Associated Press.
e.HE YORK, Dec. 14-Maior
r...a baseball magnates in Joint
ss .n today iammed the brakes on
f-..-..ason sales and deals and thus
,.. sad. for a time at least, the
o.t.ry against the buying Of pen
This was accomplished by the
!. r.--..r Of rule which prevents
t.s lnsferring Of players from one
r., lib another in the major leagues
v.th.ut waiver process after June / ).
heretofore, such deals were possible
up .u August %.
Under the new regulation the
manager Of a team which by June 10
Is uUt a strong pennant contender
cannot increase the playing strength
OF his club 'xCept by purchase Of
players from minor leagues.
May Carry 40 Players.
TO offset this rule the clubs next
seasou viii be permitted 20 carry q
roster OF 40 players up to June Is
In place OF May Is and the addi-
t1nal month will enable them to
experiment and ascertain the value
OF Younger players who heretofore
have been shunted back to the min
ors unless they flashed sterling forms
|, during the first month of the pen
ntnt race.
An effort to increase the maxi
mum number of players permitted
any one club previous to June 10
from 40 to so was lost after the Ma
tigual league had voted in favor Of
Il and the American league against
N, when Commissioner Lands voted
In the negative.
However, major league clubs here
after WlI be permitted to have Is
paygrs out under option in place of
eight but the proposal TO permit a
PLAYER being held under option for
three years in place of two was de-
feated
No Nine-Gam Mention.
There was no discussion Of the
suggested return to nine games in
place Of the present seven in the
world series and no agreement was
reached between the two leagues to
s open IN the same day next season.
As the situation stands at present,
the National is down 10 begin the
: 1923 play OF Tuesday, April II, and
Il the American league on wednesday,
4 April Is. II appeared to be the gem
4 eral opinion, however, that when the
a schedule committees meet in Feb
! rulry this confusion OF opening
1 dates would be rectified. The So
called lively ball and the superabun-
dance Of home runs did not figure in
the magnates conference.
]; was also resolved that the major
! and minor league meetings for next
year should be held in Chicago the
second week Of December. Commis-
3 i0ncr Lands was empowered, in case
q Of emergency. to call for a mail vote
g on the matter, thus exploiting legis-
ll-ion The code was changed to
4 provide that on the vote of three
g quarters Of the clubs of the two
Il leagues, any proposition or legisla-
!. ton might be submitted to a mail
= vote I'm place of a joint meeting of
the two leagues, Where a joint
meeting is called the clubs that re-
spoud shall constitute a quorum, but
absent clubs may be represented by
proxy.
transforming Banned.
The so-called transforming situa-
4 ton which resulted in the suspen-
sion of 9abe Ruth and other play
efs early last season, was remed!ed
Ii oy the adoption of a rule that no
n player shall participate in eXhibi-
ton games after October 81 and that
all future contracts between play
els and clubs shall contain this pro-
vision
World series regulations came in
Tor considerable discussion and It
was provided that in future Com
missioner lands and the president,
IN or some other official of the home
N club, should decide when weather
1 and ground conditions were suit
'''0 Vow ~0 me- once came was
started, however, the right to SUI
4 spend. POSTPONE or call such game