Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-15
JOINT SESSION RULES AGAINST
 LATE SEASON BASEBALL TRADES

New York, Dec s14-MaJor league baseball magnates in joint session today jammed the brakes on late season sa!es and deals and thus checked, for time at least, the outcry against the buying of pennants."
 This was accomplished by the passing of a rule which prevents the transferring of players from one club to another in the major leagues without waiver pro- cess aft6r June IS. Heretofore, ouch deals were possible up to August 1. Un- der the new regulation a team cannot increase it's strength except by purchase from minor leagues after June Is.
 To offset this rule the clubs next sea son will be permitted to carry roster of forty players, up to June Is, in place of May 15, and the additional month will enable them to experiment and as certain 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 from forty to fifty | was lost after the National league had voted in favor of it and the American against it, when Commissioner Landis voted in the negative. However, major league clubs hereafter will be permitted to have fifteen payers out under option l for three years in place of two was de- feated.
 | There was no discussion of the sug- | gested return to nine games in place of i the present seven in the world series and no agreement was reached between I the two leagues to open upon the same ! day next season. As the situation stands | at present, the National is down to be- 1 gin the 1923 play on Tuesday, April IT, and the American league on Wednesday
 April 1S It appeared to be the genera! l opinion. however, that when the sched- ule committees meet in February thlS confusion of opening dates would be rec tified. The so-called lively ball and the super abundance of home runs did not figure in the magnates' conference, ae- cording tO official announcement. It was decided that the drafting rules should be amended to permit the draft | ing season to commence the first day
 of the world series each year and that
 the draft meeting shall be held in the city where the first world series game IS played. The waiver rules were changed provide that a. club asking waivers on a player and then withdrawing. such waiver request must do so within 4S \ hours after not5.e of claim, OF -oTdelt right to such player. -
 
 and minors league meetings fo. next year should be held in Chicago the sec
 ond week of December.
 The so-caIled transforming situation
 which resulted in the suspension of Babf
 Ruth and other players early last sea
 son. was remedied blythe adoption ot :, the rule that no player shall participate in exhibition games after October 31 ant that all future contracts between play CTS and clubs shall contain this provi
 sion. World series regulations came in fol , considerable discussion and it was pro vided that in future Commissioner Ian dis and the president, or some other of ficial of the home club, should decid
 when weather end ground conditions
 were suitable for game. Once the gam , is started, however, the right to suspend
 postpone or call such game would res i, i entirely with the umpires. ssi The compensation to umpires in worl series games was changed from a per '. centage of the players share to a fla sum of $2,00O each per series. Last fal
 under the percentage plan, the umpire a a received about S1 800 each. The sum fc . umpiring in city series was fixed 2
 $500.
 A proposal advanced through the m | l nor league association by the Easter Ii Southern and Texas leagues that u
 draft price be increased from S4,0O0
 B, 900 was defeated, but it was decide
 that hereafter club securing a pla : CT by draft should pay immediately al T. in full, the drafs price in place of u l. fifty per cent now stipulated. le The gambling evil was discussed al IS betting and pools were denounced. IT l. cooperation of all clubs, public officia y and spectators was urged in order
 stamp it out. The cub owners unar
 mously approved Commissioner Land l1 plan to distribute the gate receipts l. the second game of the 1922 world j W ries among charity associations, but l. definite announcement was made as oe the organizations which would be ber a fitted.