The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-15
Players Protective Association Re-
buned and Ban Johnson's Organi-
ration Virtually Defied.
CHIEF zIMMER NOT PLEASED
SAYS THERE WILL BE ANOTHER
STORY IN A FEW DAYS.
st. Paul. Minneapolis and Kansas City
Awarded to Western League
40 Games Next Season.


NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE National
League magnates have completed their an
nual winter meeting. BY midnight the ma
jority of the lawmakers of the national
game had left New York for their homes.
While the magnates spent five days try
ing to straighten out matters, their success
has been far from 1attering. The chaos
that existed in baseball before the annual
winter session was begun still exists The
chances of another baseball war are just
as good as they were on Monday last. The
olive branch has been held out neither to
the Players Protective Association nor
Ban Johnsons American League. Instead,
defiance has been offered.
To-day's session was another long drawn
out affair. The magnates went into confer
ence at noon and were closeted for five
hours. There were present w. W. Kerr. p.
]. Auten and Barney Dreyfus. of Pittsburg;
A. II. Soden, ]. S. Billings and w. H.
Conant, Boston: f. A. Abel, Charles Eb-
belts and Edward Hanlon, of Brooklyn;
Andrew Freedman. New York; A. j. Reach
and Col. John 1. Rogers, Philadelphia; f.
De Haas Robson and Stanley Robson, st.
Louis; James Hart, Chicago, and John T.
Brush, Cincinnati. During the meeting the
magnates reached these conclusions:
To turn down the Players Protective
Association fatty, by refusing the players
a rehearing of their demands.
Decided upon l4O-game schedule for next
year
Decided that the schedule would be so ar
ranged that the Eastern clubs will finish
the season in the West next year.
Passed resolution by which umpires
shall be scheduled equally among the
cities, each umpire officiating at the same
number of games in each city.
Ratified an agreement by which no club
shall carry more than sixteen players dur
ing the season, after May 10.
Awarded the franchises of ST. Paul. Min
neapolis and Kansas City TO the Western
League.
This. in a nutshell, covers the work ac-
complished by the magnates during their
five days session, as given out by Presi-
dent Young. More was done, but for the
purpose of keeping il secret the meetings
at which the additional work was done
were purely informal Such was the in
formation given to the newspaper men
from all over the country who have been in
attendance at the session.
THE "TURN-DOWN" RESOLUTION.
The resolution turning down the play
ers' organization is as follows:
Resolved, That inasmuch as the three
requests made orally by Attorney Taylor
have been so merged in and confused with
a large number of other and radical
proposed changes in our players contracts,
which also affect the national agreement.
1t is impossible to intelligently differen-
tiate them and that the adoption of such
proposed amendments would not only be
prejudicial to individual interest, but
would, we believe be destructive 10 or
ganized baseball"
waited at the hotel all day for an answer
to their request for another hearing. the
magnates did not deign to notice them Of
ncially until just before they adjourned.
When the answer was brought to thinner,
Griffith and Jennings, the players COM
mittee, the effect was disappointing. They
had confidently expected another hearing.
In speaking of the result of the finding OF
the magnates, Chief thinner, of the play
crs' committee, said: This is not the
end of the matter. The Leagues refusal
to do anything for us will be brought be-
fore the association and action will be de-
cided upon. There is no backing down
with US Our demands are fair, and witn
right on our side the public will support
us. Wait and see what happens. There
may be another story in few days
The schedule and umpire questions were
first taken I'D at to-day's session of the
magnates. 1t was decided again to have
140-game schedule. each team playing
twenty games with the others. The
son will open April Is and close Oct. 6.
On Decoration day and Labor day and
June IL, Boston holiday, the Western
teams will play i'm the East.
The question of the double umpire sys-
tenn will go over until the spring meeting.
Ii Is understood that q majority of the
magnates favor il, but decided to wait I'M
til all the .)plications of prospective UNI
pires have been filed.
In the future the schedule of games will
be so arranged that one year the Eastern
T, clubs will finish in the West and the next
year the Western clubs will wind up the
season in the East. AS soon the League
had adjourned the new national board of
arbitration. went into session and listened
to the application of t. j. Hickey, George
Tebeau and c. j. Beall, representing the
Western League. They asked for the ter
ritory recently abandoned by the American
League, viz, St Paul, Minneapolis and
Kansas City They also asked TO be placed
in Glass A, which puts them on a footing
with the Eastern League The Western
League will now be composed of eight
cities. Besides the ones awarded tonight,
the circuit will include st. Joseph, Denver.
Des Moines, Sioux City or Pueblo and
Omaha.
1t was stated tonight that Harry Pull
liam had resigned as secretary of the Pitts
burg club. There was considerable talk
about the hotel during the day to the eff
feet that the circuit committee was dis
GUESSING plans for the formation of a new
league, to be run in connection with the
national body. in case that Johnson de-
clared war. Harry Pulliam, who is to be
dropped from Pittsburg, is said to be after
the Louisville team, as is Watkins The
circuit committee, it is said. looks with
favor on Puiiam's claim. The Wagners
have been present at the meeting for the
past three days. They. il is said, are
anxious TO secure their old franchise in
Washington.
1t was intimated that in case there was
a war the National League would retaliate
by promptly invading Johnson's Western
territory. An attempt was made to get
several of the magnates to discuss the mat
ter but they refused point blank to COM
nit themselves. One or two OF them threw
out mysterious hints relative 10 locating
clubs in Johnson's Western circuits
Talk of Rusie's Release.