Clipping:Vagueness about the new reserve system
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| Date | Wednesday, October 28, 1885 |
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| Text | [reviewing the new National Agreement] The change in the clause referring to reservations of players is important, in that it confers upon each body party to the agreement greater power over its own clubs, and assists to better control of the players. This section, however, and the section relating to negotiations for released players are in a condition to require special legislation to give them significance and effect. The language is not at all clear and may give rise to complications which may disturb the harmony now existing. The idea is to enable each organization to control and retain the players now under contract therewith, in order to shut off the ruinous competition which has been the main cause of the excessively large salaries, and also to enable the League and Association to retain within their fold those players they have nurtured and reared. But exactly how this is to be done is not well defined. Upon the face it would appear that a released player is not free to go where he will, but is subject to the offers of the other clubs in the organization of which he was a member. Should three or four clubs compete for his services, how is the preference to be settled? By the player's option? Suppose a player should await the legal limit for signing and refuse to serve in any of the bidding clubs with a view to going into another association, what shall be done with him? Is he free to must he, against his will, sign with a club in his association? And if so with what clubs, supposing offers equal? These are some of the questions that will arise for solution. A system of bidding by clubs, the excess over the salary limit to go into the general fund, is spoken of, but the agreement is silent on this point. It s quite clear that this matter will require the early attention of the Arbitration Committee, which is, we believe, endowed with ample powers for the practical application of every section of the new agreement. Indeed, the committee has been given extraordinary powers, and now becomes an important court of appeals, with almost arbitrary control in some cases, notably in their power to punish violations of the new National Agreement. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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