Clipping:Caylor on the reserve; proposed arbitration board

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Date	Wednesday, July 27, 1887
Text	[from Caylor's column] The National Agreement and its fundamental principle, the reserve rule are absolutely vital to the profession's interests—players as well as clubs. Both must be preserved, but both should be guarded and protected, so that equal rights may come therefrom to the club and the player. My plan would be an executive committee of three well known and fair-minded trusted men, who have had years of experience in base ball affairs. Such men, for instance, as Sage, of buffalo; Mills, of New York, and Kramer, of Cincinnati. Or take the two presidents of the League and Association and let them choose a third. I would go still further and trust it all to one man as arbitrator—a man whom all known to be of impeachable [sic] integrity and entirely fair-minded. Of such I could name a half score, such as A. G. Mills, of New York; Louis Kramer, of Cincinnati; Will Jackson, of Louisville' John J. O'Neil, of St. Louis; George W. Howe, of Cleveland; John B. Sage, of Buffalo; Captain Allen, of Providence; Georges Wright, of Boston. If it were a one man power the remedy could be sought and obtained most readily. Now what power should this board of arbitration have? First, it should settle any differences between a club and a player reserved in point of salary. I would trust such a power, if well chosen, to be wholly fair and see that no injustice was done the player, and that no “extortion” was practiced on the club. Let every player have the right of appeal to this board when laid off or suspended without pay, with the provision that he must prove the injustice of his punishment or pay the costs of a hearing.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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