The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-24
PHYLE REINSTATED IN MEMPHIS CLUB Reach Ball is Adopted for Five
 Years SCHEDULE MEETING TODAY Southern League Decides on Renewal of Exclusive Contract With the
 Western Union to Run
 Wires Into Park.
SCHEDULE MEETING TODAY

New Orleans, February 23.-tSpecial)-
 The Southern league today reinstated Bill
 Phyle, and Memphis, who had him on its reserve list has another good third base
 man. The moguls adopted the Reach ball
 on a five-year contract, and decided on
 some slight changes to the schedule, only
 one of which will affect Birmingham. The
 Schedule will be adopted tomorrow, also
 a new constitution, which is different
 from the old one only by being made up
 to date and giving the president authority
 to enforce salary limit rule. The meet
 ing was unusually harmonious, Mont
 gomery and Birmingham taking a lead ing part in the deliberations.
 President w. M Kavanaugh presided
 with A. Clark Miller as secretary. The
 delegates present were:
 J. F. Dickinson and W. A. Smith, At
 lanta R. H. Baugh and Harry Vaughan, Birmingham; H. c. Rather Little Rock;
 J. F. Coleman, T. F. McOllogh and
 Charles Babb. Memphis; E. P. Amerine
 and W. W. Screws, Jr., Montgomery L..
 L. Stern, A J. Heineman and Charles
 Frank, New Orleans; M. J. Finn, Nash
 vile; Robert J. Gilks, Shreveport.
 President Kavanaugh reported his at
 tendance at the National association of
 minors and at the board meetings and
 the admission of this league to the na-
 tional agreement. He said under their
 rulings the Southern league .was privi- legged to make its own salary limit.
 Baseball manufacturers were allowed to ad6 lpapr h-
 sequently adopted the Reach ball with a five-year contract
 Must Bear Union Label. A delegation of printers addressed the
 meeting and the league decided to require
 that ony tickets bearing the union label
 shall be used at the parks of the league.
 A renewal of the exclusive contract to
 the Western Union to operate wires into the various parks was ordered, with the condition that no tickers are to be used and no information furnished to matinees
 at home when the club is at home. When the club is abroad and a matinee is given in the home town no tickers are allowed. W. B. Phyle, yho was expelled from the Southern league on complaint of the
 Memphis club in 1903 for making deroga- tory remarks about Charles Frank, then manager of Memphis, made application | for reinstatement in a letter in which he | apologized for the language attributed to | him. On motion of MT. Coleman of the | Memphis club seconded by MT. Amerine | of Montgomery, and Mir Smith of At | lanta, Phye was reinstated by a vote 1 of to 2, New Orleans and Little Rock l being recorded in the negative. Presi- l dent Kayanaugh stated that Phyle is ! now the property of the Memphis club provided he was on their reserve list in | 1903
 An executive meeting of the committee 1 on schedule will be held at 80 tomor- | row A number of protests have been | made against some of the dates of the l tentative schedule which has been pre- | pared, but 1t Is expected that revision l by the committee will bring about har- | monious agreement among all the mem- l bers of the league. President Kavanaugh l stated that all the clubs would open on
 the same date. April 12, Shreveport open l ing at Memphis and Little Rock at New | Orleans.
 EIsey on First Base. | Vaughan will have Elsey on first base, | the settlement having been practically agreed upon today by him and Finn. | Niles will play in Philadelphia instead of | St. Louis, as the Athletics will not give l him up. Wilson Matthews, South Allan | tic umpire, will officiate in exhibition 1 games in Birmingham
 l Rrilce Hayes has been training here aud