St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-22
Cleveland Admitted to Uncon-
ditional Membership in the
National League.
His Exeelleney Nick Young,
Spalding's Right Bower, Re-
Elected President.
Detroit and Toledo Secure
Membership in the Inter-
national League.
Paddy Mcdonald, Of Ashland,
Anxious to Meet Dominick
MeCaffrey.


Special 10 the Globe.
New YORK, Nov. 21.-The convention
of the National Base Ball league was
called to order at noon to-day. After
the report of the board of directors had
been read and accepted, the Cleveland
base ball club was, by a unanimous
vote, admitted to unconditional men,
berShip in the league. Proposed amend
mentS to the constitution were dis
cussed, but 10 action was taken. n. E.
Young, of Washington, was reelected
president of the league, and the follow
ing board of directors chosen: J. It.
Brush, w. A. Nimick, j. B. Day. w. T.
Hewitt. Board of arbitration: N. e.
Young, j. B. Day, John |. Rogers.
Schedule committee: John B. Day, w.
F. Hewitt, j. T. Brush. Tue conven-
ton will meet again tomorrow morn
ing. Ned Hanlon, the Detroit
captain and center fielder, has
signed a contract to play with
the Pittsburg club next season.
The petition of Catcher Sullivan, of the
indianapolis club, to have fine of $3.50
refunded which was imposed OH him
last July. was denied. Charges which
the Chicago club had made against the
Giants were laid over. J. d. Robinson
and George w. Morse, as delegates
club, were unanimously elected. The
DetroitS are nearly all spoken for.
The joint committee on rules was in
session until midnight last night. The
changes of rules effected by the COM
mittee were the chief topics of discus
sion this morning, and they were gen
orally commended except the rejection
of the high and low ball system. With
regard to scoring, the unanimous opin-
ion is that it would be good thing to
do away with the error column and
substitute therefor sacrifice hits. The
statement that the Washington club
would endeavor to secure Ward was
given its quietuS by President Hewitt,
of that club, who positively denied
that his club was an aSpirant for the
SERVICES OF WARD.
''The BOstons want him." said Mr..
him, but $4,000 IS" Here Mr..
Hewitt gave long. low whistle, which
plainly intimated that Mr.. Ward came
too high for the senators. The board
of directors of the league met at $50,
and approved of all matters pertaining
to the official presentation of the pen
nant to the New York club. They also
audited the accounts of last seasons
games, and passed upon the average of
the world championship games. At
noon the convention went into ses-
sion, with Mr.. Young in the
chair. The question Of reduc-
ing the number of championship
games will be considered. AS near as
can be ascertained the number of games
each club will be required to play next
season will be 12G. The newspaper rep
resentativeS have drawn up a protest
against the action of the joint commit
tee on rules in eliminating the error
column from the score card. They ask
the convention to prevail OH the com
mittee to reconsider its action. In their
protest the newspaper men assert that
the error column has been the feature
of the scoring rules; that it enables the
public to see at glance the number of
misplays, and that the column is essen
tial to the correct reporting Of ball
game.