Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-12-15
TANNED
ON LATE SEASON
PLAYERS SALES
Transfer of Baseball Stars
Cannot Be Made, Without
Waiver, After June ID,
Club Owners Decide

New York, Dec. 14.--Major
league baseball masnates IN JOINT
session today iammed the brakes
on late season sales and deals and
TINS checked, for a time at least,
the cutlery against tho buying OF
remnants" This was accomplish
ed by the passing of a rule which
prevents the transferring OF play
ers from one club to another i'll the
major leagues without waiver pro-
cess after June 10.
Heretofore, such deals We're pos
sible up to August l. Under the
new regulation the manager of a
team after June is cannot in
crease the playing strength of his
club except by purchase of players
from the minor leagues.
To offset this rule, the clubs
next season will be permitted to
carry a roster Of forty players up
to June is in place of May Is and
the additional month will enable
them to experiment and ascertain
the value of younger players who
heretofore have been shunted
back to the minors unless they
flashed sterling form during the
first month of the pennant race.
An effort to increase the maximum
number of players permitted any
one club previous to June Is from
forty to fifty was lost after the
National league had voted in favor
Of it and the American against it,
when Commissioner lands voted
in the negative. However, major
league clubs hereafter will be per-
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held under option for three years.
in place of two was defeated.
OUTSTANDING Changes
These were the outstanding
changes in the code governing the
regulation of the National and
American leagues from the stand-|
point of the fan. Several other
changes were made but they per-
tanned to the technical and legis-
lative side of the game.
There was no discussion of the
suggested return to nine games in
place of the present seven in the
worlds series and no agreement
was reached between the two
leagues to open upon the same day
next season.
As the situation stands at pres
ent, the National is to begin on
Tuesday, April II and the Ameri-
can league on Wednesday, April
10. 1t appeared to be the general
opinion, however, that when the
schedule committee meets in Feb
ruary this confusion of opening
dates may be redrafted
1t was decided that the drafting
rules should be amended to per-
init the drafting season to COM
mence the first day of the worlds
series each year and that the draft !
meeting shall be held in the city,
where the first worlds series gameI
is played.
1t was also resolved that the
major and minor league meetingsl
for next year should be held in
Chicago the second week in De-
cember.
The so-called transforming sit
uation, which resulted in the sus-
pension of Babe Ruth and other
players early last season, was rem |
edied by the adoption of rule
that no player shall participate in !
exhibition games after October 31l
and that all future contracts be-
tween players and clubs shall con-
tain this provision.
World series regulations came in /
Tor considerable discussion andl
it was provided that in the future
Commissioner lands and the
president, or some other official
of the home club, should decide
when weather and ground condi-
tons were suitable for a game.
Once the game was started, how
ever. the right to suspend, post
pone or call such game would rest
entirely with the umpires.
Compensation TO Umplres
The compensation to umpires I'M
such world series games was
changed from percentage Of the
players share to a flat sum of
$4,000 each per series. Last fall.
under the percentage plan, the
umpires received bout 81, 500 each.
A proposal advanced through
the National Minor League asso-
citation by the Eastern, Southern
and Texas leagues that the draft
price be increased from $4,000 to
$4,000, was defeatd but 1t was de-
cided that hereafter a club secur-
ing a player by draft should pay
Immediately and in full the draft
price in place of the SO per cent
now stipulated.
The gambling evil in baseball
was discussed and betting and
pools were denounced. The CO.
operation Of all clubs. public Of
ficials and spectators was urged
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