Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-16
The Season Begins April
Z and Ends Oct. I.
NATIONAL League Will Make e.
fort to Stamp Out Rowdyism.
Good Feeling Prevails at Meeting in New
Yolk.-I54 Game Schedule.

New York. Dec. ID With the settle
nlent of the draft question to the Salts
faction of the minor leaguers and with
"A recommendation declaring more
strongly in favor Of clean baseball, the
meeting of the National League came
TO 4 close Thursday.
The president of the league is vested
with absolute power in dealing win
managers and disOrderly players, and IL
is evident from the tone Of the resoiu-
tionS passed on the subject That the
national organiZa ton is determined 10
stamp out al forms Of rOWdylSm III the
game.
1t was further stipulated that the
president has the right to designate the
amount Of the fine for an Onense, which
is i radical departure from the man
,iatory rule of last year, which maze
the fire SO no matter what the oftense
There was a long session at the
Victoria Hotel, after the board OF
directors met, and the afternoon
period was taken up with consid-
cring the question of the draft diff
Guilty The National AsSocia zion of
Minor Leagues met at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel tocay, too, but its bust
ness WAS taken up mostly with await
ing the direction Of the joint committee
on the new scale of drafting.
The new board of direo tors was made
up of a. II. Solen of Boston. William j.
Shettsinc of Philadelphia. Charles w.
Murphy of Chicago, Barney Dreyfuss
of PittSburg and charles II. Ebbets of
Brooklyn. This board held its meeting
merely for the purpose of organization.
and soon after it gathered the meeting
of the other delegates began.
The business was soon over. 1t WAS
announced that a schedule of 1J4 games
was favored by the leagu" This is the
same number rs WAS played last year.
The playing season is to begin April
Il ani end on oct. :. President Pull
liam was appointed to be the represent
tativc Of the National League in the
committee Of the two major leagues on
schedule making. The post season Sc
;.irs was discussed and it was the sense
of the meeting that the championship
series WAS an excellent thing. The
Spauling baseball WIS adopted us the
official league ball fer the neNt six
years. The next meeting of the league
in +, bruary will be for the purpose of
The meeting Of the minor icISutrS
was somewhat delayed by the absence
of President Bancroft +. Johnson Of
the American League. who came into
the Fifth Avenue Hotel about 1 O'Clock.
1t went into conference with August
Hermann of Cincinnati. the Represent
ativc of the National League and
committee, composed OF W. Il. Watkins
burn. ana -. II. SlivcIy. the latter the
president Of the Western Association,
To settle on the demands Of the minors
for the new draft. II WAS announced
that II had been decided that hereafter
each club should be liable To the draft
Of hut one man.
I'll" scale of prices for the single
player vas then arranged 50 as to read:
Class y. $1,000: Class T.. $50; Class g,
500 .,nd Class ID, $500. This now claSsi-
hcati"n was cmincntly satisfactory t"
the minor clubs. 1t was not announced
whether this grading would act in the
ease of players sold out, 50 that the
major league clubs might in some in
stances Ia compelled to take the i'll
f,rinr players left after such sales had
been put through. I:y this plan the
clubs could call in players sold in
this way. after the regulation draft had
been made. and suffer only = little by
il. The general impression was that the
draft covered all the players of a club
from the best to the worst. There was
very little discussion of the Pulliam
affair. the general impression being
that his election was really never a
matter of doubt.