Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-13
THE LEAGUE M0GULS.
Great Interest in Their Baseball
Meeting at New York To-Day.
QUESTIONS TO BE DISCUSSED.
An Interesting Race for the Grand Prize
Norris rark Entries.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF TIE DAY
rsrrc1AI TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. ,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcHl
New YORK, June 12-Considerable in.
terest is being centered in the meeting OF
the baseball magnates which takes place
here tomorrow. Several magnates are in
town, and every club in the League will be
represented at the meeting. The prime
movers of the meeting are Won der Abe,
Won der Horst and AL Reach The official.
of the New York club are also very eager
for the meeting. The two Wonders, OF
course, want their teams strengthened, and
Philadelphia wants the privilege of the %
cent admission plan.
Wants the Double Season Abolished.
The New York club wants to have the
"double season" abolished, and SO do the
Boston Triumvirs There is likely to be a
lively discussion on this point There are
also rumors afoat to the effect that there is
a strong desire among some of the old
Leagne magnates to make this the last of the
lo-clGb method, and, if this feeling crops
out qt 5he meeting, it is hard to tell how
matters sill end. 1t is a fact that the best
of feeling does not prevail among the mag
mates, and II Is understood that the Boston
officials are particularly anxious to have the
12-club plan done away with. President
Brine, of the Brooklyn Club, is saying verv
little, but it is surmised that he has prom
ised to aid the old Association leaders in
their plans 1t is also apparent that he was
to be considered a friend of both factions.
There have been several little confer
ences here among magnates during the last
few davs. One by one the head men Of the
League came to town to talk over the situ-
alton and to arrange the best plans possible
to parcel out some of the superfuous strong
PLAYERS What decision these men came to
is not vet known, but they agreed that the
clubs that had more players than they
really needed should turn the unnecessary
ones over to the Committee on Players, and
that these men should be assigned to new
teams.
They Don't All Agree About 1t.
All of the magnates did not agree to this
plan and some of them NAV make serious
objection to it, but eventually they will all
have to submit to some such scheme for the
mutual benefit of all concerned, as the ma
iority of the clubs are in favor of it. This
was the opinion of those who conferred to-
gether this week. As thev could not pro-
pose a plan agreeable to all the clubs as is
usually the case in the baseball fraternity,
several of them got together and compared
notes, and gradually they whipped the ma
iority into line. In few weeks, in accord
ance with the scheme, Baltimore, Washing
ton, Louisville, st. Louis and New York
will get several men, of whom they are in
need.
New York wants q catcher and an out
fielder. They can, in exchange, afford to
give pitcher and an infelder Washing
ton is in search of third baseman and a
strong pitcher, but has nothing to give in
return. St Louis needs to be strengthened
at several points, more particularly in the
''boI," although Getzein and Gleason now
seem to be filling the bill. Louisville is
also after several strong players.
To meet these requirements, the Bostons
and the Brooklyns seem to be the only
clubs that can afford to come to the rescue,
and every club in the country, probably,
with the exception of Chicago. is after the
men these clubs can release. Several
clubs have bid for Stovey, Lowe and bat
terry. Of the Brooklyns. Stein, Terry and
Kennedy will be released, and probably by
a little coa1ing one of the three catchers
could be secured.