Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-29
BUSH TOWNS TIRED
OF CASTOFF VETS
Big-Time MoguIs in Too Deep
to Let Go Control at Source
of Talent.
By JOHN B. FOSTER.


~ NOE more the time has come
for proposals toward any rad
ical departure in the system
~ of base ball government-the
time of the Winter base ball
meetings. There seems to be among
minor league base ball fans a still
latent ranking against the parading
Of Worn-out major league players on
minor league teams. ANY remedy for
this lies In bringing it up at the minor
and major league meetings. 1t is
scarcely likely that the majors will pro-
pose any departure from the present
system Of control Of ball players in the
minors.
For the first time in many years the
annual Winter meeting of the National
League will be held at another hotel in
New York than the famed old Waldorf
Astoria, which is being torn down to
make way for a great Office edifice.
Meet at Commodore.
This year the National League moguls
will meet at the Hotel Commodore,
often a hosiery for base ball leaders,
on December 10. The American League,
1t IS likely. will also meet in New York,
either on December 10 or IL. while the
annual joint, meeting of both leagues
will take place on December Is, with
Commissioner KeneSaw Mountain Lam
dis presiding.
The National League has no i'm
portant business to be considered. Like
the American League, it is awaiting the
results Of the National Association meet
ing of minor leagues in Chattanooga.
II the minors should adopt something
that would need major league consider
alton attention will be given to it, first
at the separate major league meetings
and then at the joint session.
The major league control of ball
players in the minors has been expand
ed to such an extent by the major
organizations that the latter realize
they are involved too deeply to lessen
this control. The overhead that is be-
ing carried to maintain minor league
schools for major players, who cannot
be used during a certain season, is con-
cededly tremendous, yet the majors
have gone so far that they do not see
how they can withdraw from present
arrangements without a loss to them
selves and their chances for putting
Championship teams before their public.
The present method by which some
minor league clubs continue to refill
their teams with major players, some
of them of long service and some with
out service, is the drawback that seems
TO prevent any readJustment OF present
conditions.
Want New Faces.
'The minors take over old players at
high salaries to manage their clubs and
those managers take their old ball play
ing friends to help them out" said a
prominent major league man. THE
fans in the minor leagues resent the
fact that they must pay to watch old
ball players after their time of eficient
service Is over, believing that they
should be given new faces to look at
and younger players to watch. 1t is
my belief that any community, minor
league or major league, becomes more
attached to base ball as it observes a
younger element attaining skill on it's
ball park Mathewson was a great
pitcher. He became a New York idol
because he started as youth at the
Polo Grounds here and became better
and better as the years passed on.
Babe Ruth was a ball player before
he went from Boston to New York, but
the best part of his splendid career
was demonstrated before the fans Of
New York City and he became their
batting idol as Matty was their pitch
ing idol"