The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-15
PEACE MEETING TODAY
BASEBALL MAGNATES TO AS-
 SEMBLE IN CHICAGO.
Big Associations May Get Together and Charlie Frank May Be Left outside-Matter of
 Protection.

A baseball meeting in Chicago today has a peculiar interest to lovers of the na- tional game in Montgomery and all over the South.
 It is a renewal of the peace conference between the American Association and the National Association, the Southern League being a member of the latter and getting protection from 1t, while Franks league has been promised protection by the American Association.
 If the American Association goes into the National organization today, it looks like an end of Franks chances for pro- tection.
 Speaking of the meeting today. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal of yester- day days:
 President W. M. Kavanaugh of the Southern League will attend the baseball meeting to be held tomorrow in Chicago. at which representatives of the National association will confer with members of the American Association. The result of tomorrow's conference will be of interest to Southern fans and especially to the people who have practically launched a new organization, which will likely clash with clubs already organized in six cities of the South.
 ''The object of the National Association Is to protect the interests of minor leagues. The organization was started last year and recently celebrated it's first birthday by settling the noted St. Vrain case and attending to all other business except effecting an afflliation with the American Association, which was about the only independent minor league last year that was not party to the National Associations protective agreement. At tomorrow's conference the National Association will make every effort to mass the minors under one banner in order to protect clubs from the contract jumping hsll player. Another motive which will prompt the National Associa- tion to accept almost any peace terms offered by the American Association is the Inf fha Southern organ ization which will invade the field already coupled by the Southern League, client of the National Association.
 President Kayanauyh will attend the conference and will doubtless urge any concession to be made that will band the minors together. The merging of the minors would leave the new Southern or ganiZation minus everything but finan- cial aid and it is not thought that finan- cial aid of Croesus-like proportions would survive battle with such a powerful op- ponent pitted against it as the National Association Of Minor League Clubs.
 'In connection with the merging of the minors tomorrow The Cincinnati Enquirer prints story which may be regarded as a reliable forecast of the result.
 Thomas Jefferson Hickey, the leader of the American Association forces, who took his charge safely through as bitter a war as was ever waged in Balloon. has re- turned to Chicago after his recent swing arc ound Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. It
  revoluticnists have had their eye on Thomas Jefferson and would like to have himtake command of their forces in the fight against the Southern Association.
 "Colonel Hickey isn't talking much these days. He has his optics upon the big batch of bread which will be baked and broken at the coming smoke talk in Chicago. The leaven of peace is. working, and he Is not doing anything to spoil things for the cook.
 'The Southerners in revolt, however are praying for continued warfare, for the hope of the ultimate success of the Mem phis-Frank faction lies in the failure of the peace conference. There is little chance, however, for Colonel Hickey aligning himself with the opponents of the Southern Association. While he was in Cincinnati that gentleman declared himself when he said:
 Even if he was right in his conten- ton Charley Frank was wrong. He was a member of the National Association, and. as such, was pledged to maintain it's laws. No one man in baseball is big enough to defy all baseball authority, and even if he felt that he was the victim of a judgment that was unfair, it was fool ish for Memphis to try and override the authority of the majority
 That opinion does not look as if there was any immediate prospect of the Amer ican Association and the new Southern putting on Damon and Pythias Up To Date. The old Southern. by the way, wants either Billy Joyce or The Breiten- stein to manage the club that will get the franchise at Memphis"