Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1915 — DEADWOOD COSTS $200,000 [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEADWOOD COSTS $200,000

Secretary Foster of Now York Giants Discusses New Rule Limiting " Clubs to 21 Players. A most excellent reason for the new tale limiting all ball clubs to 21 player* is given by Secretary Foster of the Giants in the statement that the deadwood last season cost the two leagues more than 8200,000. “Personally, I think a limit of 25 would have been better,** said Foster, “because it would give the managers a chance to make arrangements for the future, but there are very good reasons for the new limit "As you know,” he declared, “very few clubs ever use more than twenty players for actual playing purposes. The rest, therefore, are carried either as prospective youngsters looking for experience or veterans too old to be of

actual service, but who* have been kept largely through regret at having to let them go. * “You can estimate that no less than fifty of these veterans were carried last year when they were of absolutely no use to the clubs. It was merely burning up $200,000 for the sake of sentiment, and some of the weaker dubs felt that they could not stand it. A saving of that amount of money to organized baseball means a whole lot when we realize how many ether pur* poses it can serve in the rather procarious times.”

Secretary Foster of New York Giants.