The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-14
BIG LEAGUE WRAAGLE
EIGHT-CLUB CIRCUIT SCHEME IS
ABANDONED FOR ONE OF
TEN CLUBS
CITIES TO BE DROPPED

Cleveland and Louisville Have Prob
ably Seen Their Last Games of Na-
tiOnaI League Baseball - Andrew
Freedman, of New York, Makes
StipulatiOns for Peace That Are
Anything but Modest.
NEW YORK, Dec 13.-The meeting Of
the National League Of Professional
Baseball Clubs was continued today and
the league representatives will probably
be In session until Saturday. Innumer-
able perplexing questions have come up
Tor settlement, and even after the close Of
the six-hour session today 1t was an
nounced that nothing had been done. The
Wrlgley matter, however, came up before
the board of directors, Messrs. Hart,
Robson, Roach, Soden, Wagner and
Young, and it was learned. from what
seems to be an authoritative source,
| that it is the intention of the board to
impose fine of $1,000 on the Brooklyn
Baltimore syndicate.
In the course of the Investigation today
into the Wrigley matter President p
! L. Powers, of the Eastern league; Fred
Knowles, representing the New York
club; John M Ward, counsel for the
Brooklyn club and Charles Ebbetts, pres
| fdent of that organization, were summon
| ed before the board.
As the board of directors is prcticaI-
! ly the same as the board of ar
bitration, which yesterday decided
against the protest of the Syracuse club
regarding the taking of Wrigley by the
| New York club, 1t was presumed that the
action of the board of directors, which
is final, would be similar to that taken by
the board of arbitration. The only ques-
| ton which remained in doubt was in re-
spect to a fine, and although no official
| statement was given out that a fine had
| been imposed, 1t is believed that that
| action was taken.
Another matter under discussion today
was that brought up by the Boston club
| in asking that the Brooklyn-LouisvilIe
managers be punished for transferring a
| postponed game from Louisville without
first getting the consent of other members
of the league The game in question was
to have been played in Louisville on the
last Western trip of the Brooklyn club,
but, owing to wet grounds, it was trans
ferred to Brooklyn and played there on
Aug. II. Both Presidents Pulliam, of
Louisville, and Ebbetts, Of Brooklyn,
were summoned before the board. 1t
was at first determined to fine both clubs
$1,000, but later the fines We're rescinded.
TEN-CLUB CIRCUIT.
Rumors about trades were numerous
and persistent today. 1t was said that all
Of off
given up, but it is said that the season
would open up with ten clubs in harness,
Cleveland and Louisville being the two
clubs 1t was proposed to drop.
The election Of Harry Pulliam as secre-
tary Of the newly-organized Pittsburg
club today gives color to the report that
| Louisville, at least, has seen its last year
| in the big league
deal was completed today by which
| Clingman and Dexter, two Of the Louis
| Vile players, were sold to Chicago.
Buck Ewing, the late manager of the
! Cincinnati club, came here today to dis
! cuss the New York situation and admit
| ted that he was negotiating with Andrew
| Freedman, of the New York club. He
says Mr.. Freedman told him he could
come to New York and have anything he
wanted if the league was cut down to
eight clubs.
The Ptttsburg Baseball club held a
meeting today in Jersey City, at which
the following elections took place: Ber-
nard Dreyfuss, president; p. L. Auten,
! vice president; w. w. Kerr, treasurer;
| Harry Pulliam, secretary. The election
! of Pulliam to the secretarysh4p is re-
| garded as significant He, it was sup
| posed, would be the next president Of
! the Louisville club in case that city was
not taken out of the league circuit. Drey-
| fuss, last year, was the president of the
| Louisville club.
The Louisville club completed a deal
today by which they sell Dexter and
| Clingman to Chicago.
FREEDMAN IS MODEST.
! It is said today that Mr.. Freedman has
| laid down the following conditions prece-
! dent to q peace with the hostile clubs:
"a return of the $1,000 fine in the
! Holmes case; a return of the $500 in the
! New York-Brooklyn forfeited game; IA
| vorable legislation in the Wrigley case;
payment by the league of the rent for
Manhattan field the dismissal of Nick
Young as president Of the league; the
free choice Of certain players, and the
appointment of Adrian c. Arson as SUI
perintendent of umpires."