Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-26
MINORS GAVE UP THE FIGHT
L sser Magnates Find No Profit in Kicking
Against the Prioks.
AMENDMENTS IN THs PLAYING RULtS
More strict on Players Using Profanc
or Indecent LnnEunHc-rInSing
Schedule OF IS00 Adopted
"Opens April 4.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25,-The regular spriny
meeting, or what is generally termed tn,
| schedule meeting of the National Base Bal
eng e, was hni he'd Ton gat The re threat.
made yesterday by members of minor league.
| became esJ vindlctive today. owing to tn,
action OF the magnates yesterday In adopting
new national agreement. Yesterday tbs
representatives Of the minor leagues held a
meeting. which was called rather hurricdl,
! to Offset any action by the majors" but
/ in this they were frustrated by the new
| agreement. A meeting of the minor leagues
was held this morning, and all their repre-.
! sentatives, with one exception. were pres
ent They finally made up their minds, after
considerable discussion, that theirs was a lost
! cause.
The magnates and their friends watched
| every movement of the lesser league repre-.
sentatives throughout the morning, and IL
was not until II o'clock that the regular
| national league was reconvened. When the
| big fellows had gone into session to discuss
| the schedule for 1896, and the revision of the
| playing rules. the minor men got together in
another ROOM but after a couple of hours de-
| liberation they failed to agree on concerted
action, and issued the following notice:
The presidents of the minor leagues will
hotel Washington, on March l6. to COM
plete their organization. and to discuss mat
ters calculated to advance their best inter
ests.
Close questioning failed to elicit any
definite statement in regard to the outcome
of the new agreement from the representa-
tives OF the minor leagues
The principal matter for the consideration
Of the National league members today was
the adoption of the schedule for the coming
md thn of ,,la r,,la
Amendments to the playing rules occupied
the attention of the magnates until o'clock
when an adjournment was taken for the pur
pose of presenting silver dinner service
from the league to President and Secretary
NJ E. Young of Washington, in recognition
of his twenty-five years Management of base
ball matters.
A few minutes later the league was again
convened and the schedule of 1896 was
adopted. The base ball season will open on
April 1, with Boston playing at Philadelphia,
Brooklyn at Baltimore, New York at Wash
ington, Pittsburg at Cincinnati, Cleveland
at st. Louis, and Chicago at Louisville.
The changes of the rules made today re-
fer to the discipline and imposing of fines on
players. Much more arbitrary powers have
been given to umpires for immediate punish
ment of refractory players. The umpire
shall remove from the game and the field
any player guilty of indecent or vulgar Ian
guage or conduct and in addition thereto
the player shall be fined the sum of S25.
The umpire is authorized to impose fine
of not less than $5, nor more than $40 on the
captain. coacher or any player OF the con-
testing teams failing to remain within the
bounds of his position as defined in the rules.
This. however, shall not deprive the captain
of either team from appealing t9 the umpire
upon a question involving an Interpretation
of the rules. When the umpire orders
player from the field, he shall also insist upon
the player going from the grounds and sus-
pending the game until this order is obeyed.
Secretary Young said the members OF the
national league have instructed him to give
all the effects of the late chief umpire Harry
Wright, which related to base ball to K r..
Stagg, to be placed in his custody at the
new Chicago university, and all the effects
relating to cricket to ID. S. Newhall, German
town, Pa.