Evening star., 1926-12-10
lands IS BACKED
I. BY MINOR LEAGUES
Commissioner Promises tG
Deal Impartially in
Their Disputes.

A SHEVILLE, n. c.. December
" 10 (P).-Affairs of the Nation
| N al Association of Professiona
4 \ Base Ball Leagues were turn
ed over to President Mike II
| Sexton and Secretary John II. Farrell
when the annual meeting adjourned
| Wednesday night till the first Tues
| day in December next. at Dallas.
After the meeting OF the national
| association, the board of arbitration
disposed of a number Of cases.
w. II. klepper. onetime president
of the Portland club of the Pacific
Coast League. suspended four years
ago for life. was ordered restored to
good standing January /. a. NJ. Jack
son. president of the Salisbury C1ub
of the Eastern Shore League, was
suspended from all connection with
organized base bah for one year for
making side agreements not included
in the official contracts Of players on
his club.
The twenty-ffth annual convention
Of the minor leaguerS ShoWFu the
largest attendance in the history of
the national association, ofi1clais SAID
Judge Lands Endorsed.
Commissioner *. NJ. Lands was In
dorsed for reelection without cur
tailment of authority and his ad-
ministration praised. Lands said that
IL reelected, he would continue to deal
in1partiallv with club owners ana play
ers with an eye to the welfare oL the
nublic to which base ball owes lis eX-
istence. ,.,,,,
oaI ravt Summer as they will not be
normitted TO work at their profession
furinp the Winter. Minor league
nIavers will not be allowed to pay
ha ca hall after October 81 each year
The minor leagues will join IN
movement to erect memorlal W
Christy Mathewson at Saranac Lake
n Y. A percentage of receipts from
e,an,as in All leagues will be set aside
for the Mathewson Memorial fund.
Would Evade Draft.
An effort by several leagues VINO
wish to escape the provisions or the
draft resulted In appointment or
committee to appear before the att
visory council and seek authority to
place before the major leagues a pro
Dosal to give leagues Wishing eXemp-
tion from the draft another chance.
No action was taken to set aside
funds to assist 81 movement by the as
sociation Of professional base ball play
ers of America for the establishment
of home for sick or INDECENT players.
There was a disposition among the
club owners to wait for more enthusl-
astic participation by the active ball
players in the cause.
Many trades of players were made
as the club presidents and managers
gathered. A growing demand among
base ball fans for new faces prompted
some of the deals in the opinion OF
close followers of the game. After
plaver has worn one uniform for sew
eral seasons IL he is not an outstand-
ing star, they say, the spectators in
the stands grow tired looking at him
and he is traded. sometimes for a per-
former of less ability.
Action of the National Association
convention at Asheville yesterday con
cerning a proposition to amend the
present draft agreement between the
minors and ma jors aroused the ire o
President Clark Griffith of the Ma
tionals.
II propose to submit a resolution a.
the coming big league meetings pro
viding that the minors either accept
the draft or get out of organized base
bal H." said the Washington head. No
halfway measures would be toler-
ated.'