The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-15
Former Judge Proves That He Is
Really To High Commissioner
Of Baseball.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.
Copyright, 1872, by The Argus.)

ef OF baseball, anu tuaC everyone Is
satisfied to let him be it. There
wasn't one thing he wanted done
! Thursday that the joint meeting
didn't do, and there wasn't one
thing Lands didn't want done that
was done. Furthermore there was
Just one close vote which came on
the proposition to increase the
player limit from 40 to so. The
American league voted as one for
| it. The National league voted as
one against it. Lands cast the
deciding ballot with the National
league.
Following is a recapitulation of
the work done at the joint meet
ing:
Judge Lands and the owners of
the minor league clubs got their
joint meeting to be held in Chicago
next December.
The drafting season will begin on
the day before the first world
series game.
Umpires in the world series will
receive $4,000 each. There will be
more scramble than ever for the
job.
II a club claims player on 4
waiver request in the future they
must take him unless the club ask
ing the waiver changes its mind
within 4S hours. That goes for all
of them
No players are permitted to play
Exhibition games after Oct 81, and
the contracts of the players will be
amended to read that way. Poor
guys, they got into hot water again
last fall.
! The commissioner of baseball
and the home club will tell wheth-
!er a world series game is to be
played or postponed in the future.
4 The umpires are out of it there. but
the umpires still have the power to
call a game after it has started.
In emergency and with consent
. of three-quarters of the club mem
. bers the commissioner can take a
,, mail vote ON anything he asks fer
That prevents the boys from get
ting together and fixing up a slate
in advance of a meeting.
The efforts to increase the num-
Der of players allotted to a club
5 from 40 to so went tobogganing
As. matter of fact 40 are toe
many.
Whatever clubs may respond tC
call for a joint meeting consti-
tutes a quorum. That will keep
any from remaining away even if il
, costs a lawsuit and humbled pride
to attend.
1 The Southern, New England and
E Texas leagues will get their draft
e money in one lump hereafter in.
stead Of in two installments. Loud
cheers from the bushers.
. Any player sent to the minors
) no matter what league. must be
subject to draft. Anguished growls
o from Jack Dunn and the Pacific
8 tcoast
r Otto Miller is to be manager o.
q the Atlantic club and the selection
is likely to be good because the ole
Brooklyn catcher knows 10
about baseball.
:. Washington traded Pitcher
Francis to Detroit for Infieldel
= Gagnon, which should bolster tn,
Tiger twirling staff nicely.
nj Trade Hangs Fire.
- The trade between the Chicago
- Americans and the Yankees still
= holds fire today. There was chanc,
- of course, that it might go through
& at any time, but when toda,
dawned over the snow-covere,
streets of Manhattan, Higgins an,
the White Sox management still
e were at loggerheads over the pro
e posed deal.
o Chicago wants a pitcher of yer,
high class from the Yanks. Hug
e gins is refusing to turn over one O
J. that caliber. The Sox are said t,
, have named Jones, and too, tn
o westerners are said to have men
/ toned Hoyt. No one seems to wan
a the handsome Mays.
l., A while ago all the major leagu
Il clubs waived claims on Mays ex
a cept Cincinnati. Gary Hermann
might have waived claim, but Pa
Moran manages the Reds and Pa
thinks he can give the Giants
q battle next year il he could hav
o Mays to help out and provided ais
if he could keep Mays in jovia
j. spirits. The famous underhan,
pitcher gets the blues, or some
thing akin to them. and when he i
peevish he loses games.
. OF course the general committe
II OF managers on the sidelines is per
It fectly willing to advise Higgins
They have been doing it a lot latel
= but the little fellow has mind o
+ his own and q will. too.
a There was a wild rumor agail
today that Huggins would tax
over Boley of Baltimore, but tina
e was only the broadcasting Of one O
e those yarns without which a base
e ball meeting would be simply an in
l?Iterval Of time. Higgins wants Col
r Inns and Collins wants to 70 t
II Higgins, but the latter is determ
T. ined not 70 give up any of his res
strength just to get strength in an
jother spot Furthermore, Collins
It be it remembered. is no sprin,
+ chicken. He has not q thousan
e years more to play before he be
gins going hack.
le When the little group OF majo
. league leaders got together som
4 tune agO and had 4 conferences an,