Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-11
Base Ball Commission Aired
the Taylor Case.
ACTION POSTPONED
JOHNSON FIGHTS CONCESSIONS TO
THE MINOR LEAGUES.
Cause of Cookers Stumbling - Tigers
Schedule-Golf at Pinehurst-
New Orleans Races.

After a twenty -hve-minute session of the
national base ball commission at Aurora
Ind last night President Hermann OF the
national commission decided that In the
.absence of President Hart he would post
pona action in the demand by President
Comiskey of the Chicago White Sox that the
charges made by President Hart of the
Chicago Nationals be investigated. until
come future date. The trial will be held in
Chicago and Hart will be appraised of the
date and summoned to appear.
President Johnson opened the case for
Comiskey by reading signed statement
made by President Hart in which the lat
ter vaguely limited at crookednesS. Tnls was
followed by statement from Comiskey re-
spending to Hart and mentioning the name
of Pitcher Taylor as the player who was
the object of Harris insinuations MT
Johnson declared that 1t the duty OF
The commission to preserve the integrity
of the game and that when it was assailed
either by the act of a player or the innuendo
of "A magnate. it is the mission of the COM
mission to punish the offender.
Mr.. Johnson called attention to the dras-
tic treatment of Pitcher Phyle. who for de-
Claring the games of the Southern League
had been fixed was permanently suspended
by that organization. Phyle appealed 1t TO
the national board. which sustained the &C
ton of the league. and Phyle is now ineli-
gible to play with any club a party to the
national agreement.
Although he did not say So MIR. Johnson
was prepared to prove that Mr.. Hart had
been guilty of circulating just such reports
had Phyle. He could not see the diff
ference and the fact that Mr.. Hart is a
magnate rather Increases the enormity of
his offeuse. President ComiSkey was then
called He repeated the conversation he
had with Messrs. Bancroft and milford.
Then Johnson sprung thlrteen-inch gun
by calling Mr.. Bancroft.
If you work for me-" said Mr. Hermann,
tell the truth"
Bancroft's Strong Statement.
"Banny' then told the conversation he
lad with Hart in which the latter told him
that "Comiskey had got to Taylor and Of
fered that as the reason he would not play
series of games for the Chicago cham
piorship with the White Sox. Chairman
Hermann then gave 1t out fiat that in his
belief Taylor was a crook and intimated
that he knew of relations which he had
with a Pittsburg saloon keeper named Nc
Coimick and another man named Deneen.
which were decidedly shady. Hermann
thought that President Johnson had made
mistake in not furnishing more substan-
tial evidence to the board
MIR. Johnson replied that he had been
animated by a feeling of consideration for
Mr.. Hermann; that as his associate on the
commission he did not want to do anything
that might embarrass him. but wanted
lllfl 10 UdIul6 the case as MS pest JuQR-
ment suggested Furthermore, Johnson
said that Hart had declared that he could
rot get square deal so long as he, John
son, was on the commission.
Then Mr.. Hermann announced his de-
cision to fix date for Harris trial.
Minor League Question.
For sixteen hours and more the national
commission was deadlocked over the draft
ing system and there were stages of the
game when it looked as though considera-
hle friction would develop even IL 1t did not
result in a rupture of the sacred national
agreement itself The representatives of
the minors wanted to bunch the drafting
price for Class A and fix 1t at 1880: Glass
B, 81 90; Class C. $3.50; Glass d. $500; Glass
E. $500. and SO on down the line. In add-
ton not more than one player could be
drafted from any one Glass A club.
President Johnson would not consider
this. although he was perfectly willing to
improve the condition of the minors. With
that end in view he made counter propo-
sltion, which would. he declared, accom-
plish much that the minors desired and
would more effectually do away with the
perniciouS practice of covering up'-that
ia. club of the major leagues drafting a
player with no idea of using that player
itself. but simply as a means to return him
TO the club from which he was originally
drafted. Both the major and minors
agreed that this practice is the bane of
professional base rail- and were unit in
their desire to suppress it,