The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-15
BALL MAGNATES MEET
ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE
TwELvE-CLUB LEAGUE.
Change I'm Form of Release Contracts
baltimore Awarded the Pennant
The New Association.

NEW YORK, Nov. 4-The twentieth
annual convention of the National Baseball
League opened at the Fifth-avenue Hotel
to-day. The reappointment of Mick"
Young president, treasurer and secre-
tary Of the League was confirmed, and the
meeting then took up the consideration of
the rules. AS the afternoon wore on it was
very generally conceded, even by those
who had expressed approval of the new
ISOLATION, that its prospects of establish
ment are very slight. One prominent
Brooklyn man said: IF 1t is to be formed,
which are the four clubs to be dropped
from the League? None of them will vol
unfairly withdraw. If they do not, they
must be bought. and that is extremely un-
likely. Then there is the question Of cap,
ital. The "A .nerican Association would re-
quire at least 900 to start with. y
ground at a moderate estimate will co.,
$4,000 or $4,000, and don't see. after the
experience of the brotherhood in 1890,
where 1t is to come from. The American
Association will not have half the advant-
ages of the b. Jtherhood. The brotherhood
raised the cry of monopoly; they charged
the League with being capitalists, and said
that 1t was a case of capital against labor:
that the players were forced to play where
they did not wish, and made other COM
plants. They received great sympathy
from the public. and they took away many
Of the best League players. but after a
short time these men wanted to come back
again, and the days Of the brotherhood
were few. The players know how their
bread is buttered."
The convention remained in session from
2 o'clock to 5 o'clock, when President
Young officially announced what the pro-
ceedings had been. In speaking of his re-
election as secretary and manager, he said
it was the twenty-seventh time he had
been reelected. An appeal of Washington
against st. Louis as to the disposal of the
gate money received at Bennington and
Cincinnati was, after hearing. laid on the
table. The revision of the constitution or
the League was taken up, and occupied
the remainder OF the session. Tne only
changes were in section 26, in which the
existing proviso was struck out and the
following substituted:
..The ten days release provided for In
the seventeenth paragraph of the League
form of contract shall be taken to run from
the time of notice thereo, received by the
promulgate the same TO all club members.
At the expiration of the said ten days the
player released shall be eligible 10 con-
tract with the releasing CLUB or any other
club members"
Heretofore any club that wanted to re-
lease man before July had ten days in
which he could resign, but now the club
must release him after that time.
Section 45. providing that every club shall
play at least twelve games with each other
club, and providing that in case of an un-
finished game that the deciding game must
be played on the same grounds as the un-
finished game was played on was amended
to allow of its being played on the ground
of the other club, should there be no open
date on the ground Of the club where the
unfinished game was played. The question
of the division of the receipts was then
taken up and will not be concluded until
tomorrow, when the convention will meet
at 10 o'clock.
The directors meeting this morning was
OF very short duration. Having received
President Youngs report for the past sea-
son and awarded the pennant TO Baltimore.
subject to the approval of the League, IL
adjourned.