Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-27
SEVERE ON The AMERICAN
National Leagu. hsgnstes Want Monopoly
Of Association Players.
ARE READY TO SIGN ON These TERMS
Report TO this Eject IL Current mt
Present Meeting in New York
-Impires Make Applica-
ton,

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-For nearly seven
hours today the committee appointed by
the National league to hear the demands
OF the Players association had President
Charles thinner Of that organization before
the committee in the Fifth Avenue hotel
1t was announced that no definite action
had been taken and that another confer
ence would be held
After the conference, thinner said he
thought that he could state nearly every
thing asked for would be granted He said
there was but one hitch. but declined to
name IT, He said a proposition has been
submitted to him but he did not care to
act on It,, although empowered to do so,
until getting the opinion of the other play
ers. He said he had teegraphed to Clark
Griffith and Hugh Jennings. the other mem
bers OF the players committee, and until
they answered he could say nothing When
he got their replies another conference
would be held with the leagues committee.
II was said tonight that the hitch came
about over the proposition OF the players
to submit all disagreements to an arbitra-
tion committee. The magnates are said to
oppose 1t as impracticable. They maintain
that the appointment of a separate arSitra
tion committee for every grievance from
player would mean nothing but COM
mittees at work all the time
Ready to Tie Up.
A report was current that the magnates
had agreed to accept the players demands,
provided the latter agreed not to sign with
any organization not playing under the
National agreement. This. IL is claimed,
would be almost death blow to the Ameri-
can league.
The magnates get into session at O'Clock
tonight There were present President
Young, A. II. SOden W. II. Conant and W.
j. Billings of Boston, Colonel Rogers and
A. j. Reach, Philadelphia Charles Eb-
bits and Edward Hanlon, Brooklyn An
drew Freedman, New York; Barney Drey-
fus, Pttsburg; James Hart, Chicago John
T. Brush. CiDcinnati Frank DeIIaas Rob-
ison. st. Louis
Charles Strobel and William Meyers. rep
resenting the Interstate league are here
to protest against the Western league for
alleged grabbing" OF players from its
clubs. They complain against Kansas City.
81. Paul and Minneapolis particularly.
Fort Wayne will ask the National board
to compel Cincinnati to pay $780, the draft
ing price. for William Bergin. The Gin
cinnati club drafted Bergin, and, 1t is al
legeu decltned TO make payment
Some OF the applicants for places as UNI
pres are Billy Nash. Bug" Holiday, Tim
Hurst, Hank ODay. Connolly. Emslie and
Mcdonald. Tom Lynch has not applied, but
will probably be rendered a place. There
are thirty applicants in all.
Players stick to League.
That the National league had imposed a
war measure" upon the players in return
for concessions was confirmed later in the
evening, when President thinner of the
players association signed the following
agreement and sent 1t to the magnates
"As president of the Protective Associa-
tion OF Base Ball Players. and as its au-
thorized representative. l hereby agree in
return for the concessions granted by the
National League and American Association
OF Base Ball Clubs this 26th day of Feb
ruary, 1901, that all National league and
Eastern league players who may sign Amer
lean league contracts will be suspended
pending action by the Players Protective
association as a body"
This agreement means that the PLAYERS
will stick to the league in its fight with
Ban Johnson, although the American lea que
agrees to make every concession asked for
by the players months ago. 1t was the
only way that the players could get conces-
sions from the magnates OF the parent
league.