Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-12
Busy Week for MagnateS in
New York City.
MAY BE LIVELY MEETING
Blacklisting of Players and New Rules
the Important Moves.
SCHEDULES TO BE ADOPTED
Gold Racquet Championship to Be
Puayed Today-Stewards' Action
W&rns Turfnaen.

The national commission and the schedule
and rules committees OF the American ana
National leagues meet In New York this
week. and although the surface indications
are for a quiet, uneventful gathering, those
ON the inside look for radical proceedings
from the younger organization.
The national commission. consisting OK
Presidents Johnson and Pulliam and Mag
nate Hermann. will have several prooiehi.
TO straighten out In the way of beiiigereh'
OUTLAW players and fight over the Sc
bring case can be looked for
Center Fielder Sebring, while playing
with Cincinnati last season. was gwen per
mission by President Hermann 10 go "
yvilliaur,port and remain there TOT the re
matnder of the season on account Oh 'he u
ress of the players wife Previous 10 gram
ing this permission the magnate trleo u
brighten the player into returning 20 IN
cinnati by placing his name on the piacAhs'
Cor nlsvinp with the Willismsport team, d
member OF the OUTLAW Tri-State League.
This proceeding failed to frighten SeoriHe'
and for fear of losing such vaIuape 80
set President Hermann turned apou, az
gave him permission to play with W aiiaiii'
port. ,,,,.,,,,st,, naturally
incensed President Johnson. VINO mas a.
ways been a stickler for standing res,dent
rules after once adopted, ana fresIuee
Hartmann at last realized that ne hao ilia ,
a had move He then concluded 10 Ine e.,
the best of a poor bargain by inciuains a.
bring in a group of players traced 70 te
Chiceso club President Hermann douot-
Is.s Concluded that he had been playing the
novice in base ball politics long enough anu III
elected President Murphy OF the |lA''e'
Nationals to hold the bag. 5o
Mr., Murphy Immediately after the t.aoe
NJ players had been concluded hurried u
ViiIiamsport and endeavored 10 set
bring TO sign with his ciup LOT inns 80
hui was unsuccessful, and then ne also
took a turn about and gave the player PEI
mission to manage the outlaw team ~ To-
the coming season. This was the situatLoii
about a month ago, ana Presioen -, ' n1tar.
son may have been prevanea upon " 49,
Iool, the little technicality, as II related en-
tlrely to National League CLUBS put win VII.
the asst two weeks Sebring has been VIII
ing and dickerGg with American League
DtSvers and Is reported to have persuaded
Utility Player Bob Cnglaub to desert the
Boston club. ,a
With organizations working under one
agreement the last offense OF Seprins mas
q yarv serious look and 1t Is a foregone
conclusion that President Johnson VII! not
sit idly by and see player commit haa
kari in the American League, although
he aDparently can do as he pieases with
the National magnates. In an interview
in Chicago last week President Johnson
was evidently hot under the coiar' as
he remarked to the reporter that ne was
determined to find out what the hauoha'
agreement was for.
Presidents johnson and Pullam are salu
70 be very much in accord at present III ING
matter OF dignifying the two major organi-
cations and should the latter take siues
with the former the chances are that MT
Sebring will be lost to Chicago for all time
and that this player will have plenty OF
time TO devote to the development of the
williamsport team personally ana the Iri-
State League collectively.
New Rules Probable.
Next in importance to the national COM
mission Is the rules committee, and here
again the National League may be given
a Jolt in a most unexpected quarter. The
American League has the brains. the money
and the players. and the magnates of that
organization have about come TO the con-
clusIon that they have been playing second
fiddle to the National League long enough
The long list of 200 hitters' In the
National League last season was a great
big advertisement for that organization.
and then on top OF that came the world
series, wherein the New York Giants won
the championship
President Pulliam has enough business
sense to know the value OF this prestige.
and from the unanimous sentiment ex-
pressed in the National League papers
there has doubtless been tipping" off
OF the writer's 10 work for the maintenance
Graw and several other prominent players
in the National League have expressed
themselves as opposed to the foul strike
rule, but to read the western papers favor
ing the older organization, there has not
developed the least opposition to the OBJ
noxious amendment President Puiliam
and his partners maintain rightly that there
has been plenty of hitting In their organi-
zatton, and. like the National League OF
all times. they care nothing for anybody
else. Go over the list of twirlers in IT,
National League and see how difficult IL is
TO pick out eight first-class pitchers. or
one to club. Then do the same with the
American League pitching staff, and Il VII
be found that each team has at least two.
and some three, twlrlers OF the ''top-n1tch'
caliber.
Ing this week, the American League dele
gates will do everything possible to win the
National League representatives over to
their way OF thinking. but should their
arguments prove fruitless they can be de-
pended upon TO cut loose and go II alone.
Mr.. Noyes suggestion of making the rule
three balls and three strikes. or Mr..
Grthith's idea OF calling all foul flies
over the grand stand or TO the out
field fouls Instead OF strikes. will probably
be adopted. and the patrons of the Ameri-
can League next season will see the free
batting for which they have been calling
the past three years. There will not be
the least hard feeling over the changes-the
National League can go Its way and the
American League take up tne new IDEAS
alone When the two organizations clash
next fall the worlds championship series
one set OF rules can be used in the National
League grounds and another at the home
of the American League team. The differ
ence In the rules Will be observed In this
case alone and the umpires need not have
any difficulty In correctly interpreting the
different readings.
The Weeks Program.
The New York Sun yesterday said: This
will be busy week in the base ball world.
Tomorrow all the leading magnates will be-
gin TO drop into town. as the annual sched-
ule meetings OF the American and National
leagues will convene on Wednesday. Presi-
dents Johnson and Pulliam have Grated
the playing schedules. which viii probably
he adopted without material alts.at'las Ca
Tuesday the national commission. the nigh
est coart in pasy ball, will convene 20 con-
slider the cases of several players who have
been blacklisted. together with other minor
affairs that must be adjusted. but accord
ing to 7 resident Pulliam. there will not be
Joint meeting OF the two rules committees
on that day. Pulliam says the National
League committee will not hold a session
until after tho regular meeting Of The