Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-10
THE DIAMOND.
National League Shows the
 White Feather.

Extended the Season to Prevent Games With American League-De-
 feat By the Rival League Was a Hard Dose to Swallow Contract
 Jumpers to Be Blacklisted
 There will be no more inter-lea que
 series for the championship of the world. Boston. of the American league, will doubtless hold that title for some time If ever the National
 league showed the white feather it did
 yesterday, when it greed to extend its
 season two weeks longer. phis on it's
 face looked innocent enough, but when considered in conjunction with the at
 tempt of Garry Hermann of Cincin-
 natl to have the number of games re- duced so that there could be einter-
 league games all along the line, it is significant. Barney Dreyfuss was si- lent when asked why he had allowed
 the league to take such action. He would not confess that he was afraid
 to attempt again to wrest the cham pionship honors from Boston, but there
 were others who said he was behind the movement so that he could use it as
 an excuse. The nlagnates evidently
 realized that the American league had won large amount of prestige by the
 success of the Bostons over the Pitts
 blIrgs. the Clevelands over the Gincin- natis and the Philadelphia and St Louis Americans over the Nationals in those cities. They also felt that the refusal of the New York Nationals to accept the sportsmanlil1e challenge of the New York Americans, even to play for char tty. had acted as boomerang So. rather than face such an embarra ssing state of affairs another year, it was de cided to cut it all out, thereby avoiding n fair test of the strength of the two leagues in point of playing.
 The second days session of the mag mates was called to order at o'clock yesterday afternoon. The first busi ness of the day was the election of q board of directors and committees for the ensuing year. The men elected are All. Soden. chairman James A. Hart, John T. Brush and Barney Drey- fuss. Committee on rules. James A. Hart. Max Fleischman. Ed Hanlon
 Schedule committee. Barney Dreyfuss, James A. Hart and Charles Ebbetts V measures to punish contract Jumpers. President Pulliam was instructed to vote at the next meeting of the na- tional commission for a rule declarin; Ineligible. any player who shall yiolaf or jump" a contract operating under the new national agreement. The
 word ineligible really means SblaclSr list- for Hart of Chicago after the meeting adjourned declared that such a player would be debarred from play ing for life. The league also adopted rule which prevents any club in the National from trading players with an American league club without ths unanimous consent of the other Na- tionaI clubs.
 Manager McGraw has not as vel made any deals for new men, although he is said to have offered cash bonus tO Cincinnati for Seymour. He will have all Of the old men back when the bell rings at the Polo grounds next sea son Warmer and George Davis were at the hotel during the afternoon
 Som ebody revived the yarn that Davis and Fielder Jones would refuse to play ball with the Chicago Americans next year and would hold John T. Brush to the personal contracts they signed with him last spring. The na- tional commission has decided already that Davis and Jones must play with the Chicago Americans or get out%of fhe business. The public cannot be tolifed into the belief tlrat these men really belong to the New York Nation aIg any more than did EIherfeld of the New York Americans, whose case was effectiveIy thrown out of the supreme court last summer It would seem to he up to Brush to fight Davis and IcneS on The salary question and to ad-