The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-14
LANDS RELIEVES ON TWO RULES
 ABOUT PLAYERS
Agrees to Amendment to Save Minor Leagues;
 To Protect Players
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY

01 OEVUOE MAN1A6G1
 United Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 Belleair, Flaa Feb. 14-(UP)-All the shootin' is over. The old gray haired judge who rules as baseball czar and Larry MacPhail were walk ing arm in arm down the green carpeted corridors of the rambling Belleview-Biltmore Hotel. It was Good morning, Judge" and Top of the morning to you, Sam," when Commissioner Landis and Sam Breadon of the Cardinals and others has ended in a temporary truce.
 The farm system is going on much as before, Commissioner Landis has agreed to a new amendment to cover protection of the players interests and all is quite once more along the baseball front.
 After a four-hour meeting yester- day of Commissioner Landis, the two league presidents, five major league officials, and Judge w. G. Bramham, president of the minor leagues, they all came to an amicable agreement about the manipulation of ball play CTS. Landis agreed to suspend the two contested paragraphs in his 2 point bulletin of January IS pending the subsequent passage of new amendment drawn up at yesterdays session.
 Rec0nsidered
 Warnings about what would hap pen to baseball If Landis enforced those two paragraphs caused the or Jedge to reconsider his severe inter- prepations last month and listen to the pleas of the club owners. It was conservatively estimated that if Landis had not relented at least ten minor leagues out of Al would have collapsed.
 The new amendment, which will be submitted to mail vote of the major and minor leagues, will offer the player the protection he insist ed he must have If the farm systems continued to operate, according tc Landis.
 'This new amendment removes 9s per cent of the commissioners ob- jections to working agreements and farm clubs" said his Secretary Les lie O'Connor. "The commissioner Is satisfied that this rule will take care of the player and prevent him from heign mishandled."
 The main effect of the rule will be to take away the incentive to keep a ball player tied up under options and various other ways in chain store system for 8 long period of time. If, and when, the new amend ment is passed, it means that if the New York Yankees sign a ball play CT and send him to minor league club, they automatically lose one years option, and then they can only keep him under option in the minors three mure years. After that they have to bring him to the Tanks and then can option him two more years.
 Under the old conditions, which Commissioner Landis objected to SC bitterly, it was possible to extend the periods which player could be kept under control for an unlimited time through working agreements anG ownership of lower clubs.
 The amendment doesn't mean g thing as far as outstanding bal players who are headed for the ma jors are concerned. It's main effect will be on players who are destined to stay in the minors.
 The five club officials who attend. ed the meeting lost their battle tt have Commissioner Landis suspend his rule which prevents a majol league club from signing 8 player for an affiliated minor league clut and then reacquiring him later.