The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-07
HOT time EXPECTED
At . BUsHER :" MEET
Minor League Baseball Confer
ence May Resemble American
Association Meeting.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Chicago, Jan. 6.-Chicago will en-
terrain more baseball club owners and
moguls next: week than the town ever
held at :one time before, and probably
more than ever got together on any
previous occasion anywhere. The Ma
tional association of professional base
ball clubs will hold its meeting here
beginning Tuesday, and every one of
the 1913 clubs which belong to the asso-
citation will have one or more repre-
sentatives present. Many of the
leagues will have practically all of
their club owners and officers here, and
the estimated attendance at the session
is placed at 500.
Important legislation that will effect
organized baseball in every city in the
country will hold the interest Of all
/ the magnates from the American asso-
citation down to the bushiest of the
;; bush league. A large number Of the
minor leagues have planned to hold
+ their own business or schedule meet
| ings here at the same time, so that
!. their clubs only might be in attend
ance at the big conclave of the Ma
/ tional association. -
| M ay Last Week.
The session of the magnates is likely
;: to consume nearly the entire week, as
, the entire fabric of minor leaguedom
will practically be readjusted and put
| on a better working basis. One Of the
! most important features of the meet
ing will be the decision reached On the
draft proposition. Whatever decision
is reached at the meeting, committee
will be appointed to go to Cincinnati
! Thursday and confer with the national
commission before it is incorporated
, in baseball law. It is reasonably Ger
tain that new draft price of 1000
for players from class A leagues will
become law and the major leagues
allowed to draft but one man from
the teams in that class.
The first rally Of the big association
wall be the meeting tomorrow of its
committee to revise the constitution
D. M. Shively, president Of the West
ern association, is chairman Of the
committee, and will convene the Other
members of the committee at the
Annex this afternoon to draw up con
stitution which will be practically new
as some radical changes will be, made il
the association accepts the new instru
ment. -.
Glass A Ambitious. :"....
Chief among the alterations in tn
revised constitution will be the claus
giving the class A equal voting powe
with all the remaining clubs. That i
/ right the class A men have long beel
fighting for, as they claim their large
interests cannot be fully protecte
while the smaller leagues are Above
I to continuously outvote them in tn
4 association meetings. There may be
B fight in the meeting between the elias
4 A people and the classes B and D, owe
I dividing the voting power equally be
tween the teams of the first class an
4 the "bush leaguers,'' as the smalle
Z leagues are termed. ..,....,---.,
Altho the election Of officers is sal
/ to be cut and dried affair, with P: Z
Powers put back into the presidenc
and u. H. Farrell re elected secretary
I nothing is; certain when the mino
leagues lock horns, and it is freely pre-
dicted that. Powers will have the fgl
of his life in landing the presidency
The eastern league is strongly oppose
to him, and if that organization is abb
to enlist enough allies there will b
trouble ahead for him. Mr.. Farrell
administration has satisfied the minor
I Presidents to Vote. Il.
I In most cases the presidents of. tn
various leagues will hold the votin
powers for their organizations, but
a few instances the proxies of certai
leagues will be. in the hands of partie
I outside the league. The fight f
1 places on the board of arbitration
| likely to produce some lively tits b
/ tween the leagues. There being Sc
eral club owners who want to represe1
their leagues On the national board,
i few internal strifes will not surpri.
\ anybody, and some warm tits al
1 anticipated.