San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25
What to Do With Rockies
Under Draft Arrangement
Becomes Problem.
SOME JUST HANG ON
And the Youngsters Enjoy
a Long Vacation With
out Interference.
Nv GEORGE CHADWICK


we do with tnem?'
Some of the major league owners
are in the South where their managers
can reach them personally. Others
are in the North receiving frantic
kilograms and letters. All are being
bombarded with the question OF what
is to ba done with surplus players. be-
cause it will be recalled thar the major
leaguers adopted resolution that no
players should be sent TO the non
draft minors unless they were subject
to draft in 1923.
The majors may think they are pay
ing off a score because some of the
minor leagues refused TO accept the
draft, but they are paying cash for
the chance and are likely TO pay
a higher price before they get through.
The owners who are in the South
wish they were home. They feel they
are too far from the center of things
in view of the rumors that have
reached them that this club and that
club is breaking over the agreement.
What are we TO do they ask.
"if these rules are TO be violated by
the stronger clubs?'
Refer the violators 10 Judge
Landis." suggests some one.
Judge Has Hands Full.
That is obviously the thing 10 do,
but gossip from the South seems to
say that the judge has his hands so
full Of the transgressions of the
wicked that it won't do TO refer any
thing TO him. He has become so weary
of telling some of the owners what he
thinks of them that his vocabulary is
depleted.
All this does not help tie situation
regarding the young players. The
majors can retain them until June
10. but they do not want to. They
were loaded up with lemons in the
fall of 1922. Their scouts took on
players who are not fit for the minors,
to say nothing If the majors.
Some managers have wired back that
it is absolutely folly TO hang onto some
of the men who have been sent TO
them TO enjoy spring vacations. Scouts
took kids out Of colleges who ought
to have been left there or put into a
minor league club for two years to
come. There are half-baked youngsters
from the sand lots and players who
know little or nothing Of the right
way TO play ball who seem TO have a
good turn for some minor league
owner. or because they did not know
ball players when they saw them. The
latter appears as a good reason.
One manager has sent word TO his
owner that he has six men who never
will be fit TO play who are living
high at the expense of the manage
ment. Managers don't know whether
to make ARA syements to place players
who show they might make go OF
it with a minor league or TO hang
onto them until June Is. These play
ers should be sent out. They need
work il they are to go on and they
can't get it with the major league
clubs for the managers already have
their material lined up. These men
can't break into the regular lineup.
They are in the way and they don't
get regular practice or coaching be-
cause the manager cant spare the time
for them.
Get Rid Of 1t.
The best thing some If the major
clubs oan do is to get rid Of some
of the young talent. 1t will save
money in the long run. The trouble
is. some of the owners have no con-
fidence in their managers TO do that
sort of thing. On one major league
club there are four bosses and the
manager is the fifth. 1t is n happy
family, for all four talk confiientially
to the players and the manager talks
to the four owners and the players
talk to him. That club is said TO have
five players who ought TO be sent
home but the owners don't want TO do
it for. fear they will overlook some
thing.
With all the scouting that has been
done and with all the Dragging about
new players. it is safe to say that
when the season begins there will be
comparatively few changes in the line
up of most clubs except those which
were announced last fall. OF course,
in the case of players who have been
bought at big price there will be
changes. In the meantime, the rockies
are having a merry spring. They have
not had such a picnic since the ma ors
got out of the Federal League mess.