San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-24
Pacific Coast League Known
to Hanker After Major
Rating.
MAY EVOLVE FROM FUSS
Severance Of Dealings With
Majors May Bring
This About.
BY JOHN b. FOSTER.

Copyright 1928. b. The san Antonio Light
New York, Jan. 2I.-All this pitter
patter and talk, not to mention a
modicum OF strife and dissension, over
the draft agreement and the optional
ARRANGEMENT by which latter the
majors will not farm out players I'M
less the minor league clubs TO which
they are sent agree to let them be
drafted back to the majors under GER
tain conditions. recalls the dream for
three great leagues and a grand ma
tional championship series at the end
of the season.
This has been dreamed by the pro
grcssives and imaginative ones in base
ball many times. For the ultimate
| good of baseball it would be one OF
the best things that could happen II
! there could be n complete rearrange-
ment and realignment by which there
would be an Eastern League, 4 Middle
| Western League and a Pacific Coast
| League. the three organizations to have
the same standing toward each other
rs the American and National Leagues
now have.
It would be thoroughly feasible to
arrange for the Grand National cham.
| pionship series at the close of the
three leagues regular playing schedules
| And there would be more reality Il
the phase Worlds Champions" wher
applied to the final winner in such Q
three-cornered scrap.
Coast Has Tive Big Cities.
The Pacific Coast League has two
| cities. San Francisco and Los An
gelCs, that are both bigger than Gin
cinnati One OF the reasons why thu
president Of that league has fought So
strcnuOUsly against the new draft rul
ing adopted at this winters joint meet
ing, is. as he puts it, that the fan
I of those cities have as much right Il
witness star performers as have tn
fans of Cincinnati. Therefore, his al
= gument continues, why should tn
Pacific Coast thus be discriminate
; against. Perhaps the present dissen
sion may develop into n movement tina
, will bring the three major league dream
true.
The non-comBatant element in tn
= National Association Of Minor Leagu
Clubs is hoping that everything wi
come out all right, but there is anOthe
faction which doesn't hope for anything
having had the experience previOusl
| of having such hopes only TO hav
them killed later.
Can Draft Only Eight.
, So much has been spoken about tn
draft in baseball that it is not untim'
~ to call attention 20 the fact tha
+, only eight players can be drafted fro
! each Glass IA league if they conser
J TO the draft. That isn't the point il
G volved with them. though. II the
I have one smashing good player, the
! know 10 q certainty that he will
\ drafted, and for that reason they wi
Z have 10 make the best terms they ca
0 get which many times isn't much.
d is also certain that the minors beley
!. that the major league clubs so arrange
= the drafts that they got all Of Il
!, best
d If you raise a Ty Cobb you can
d keep him." said an international Leagl
magnate TO the writer recently. That
our argument. Take it or leave it,
n Whatever club takes Bolcy fro
:. Baltimore will also take over the pa
r ment of $4,000 salary and prObab
d the purchaser viii have to increa
p that $4,000. II the Boston American
/. wish 10 do business with Dunn tn,
|. | will find his backbone is pretty sti
p on the Boley question. and Chance W
have to dig deep. Dunn says there
Y no law in his league or any 9th
. that can make him let BOley go f
d a penny less than the Baltimore own
Il thinks his player is worth. And that
:. that