The Washington herald., 1907-12-11
TRADES HANG FIRE
Many National League Play
erS Still Oh Market.
PUILIAM MAKES HIS REPORT
Recommends that Sale of IEtOxi-
eants i'm Grand stands he Stopped
and Goes ON Record Against seven
inning Games and Unnecessary
DoubIeheaGers-GOs of Meeting.

New York. Dec 1O-The National
League baseball delegates began their an
nual meeting in the Waldorf to-day. but
there was not much doing but talk In
what the public is most interested, that
being deals FOR players
| Half a dozen Of the clubs acknowledged
they could use certain players who are
mentioned as likely to make a change of
base, but on all sides was an air Of abso-
Lutte difiidence when ii came to ap-
preaching a fellow magnate and talking
/ business. Therefore the fate OF half a
dozen good players who might ind more
/ congenial births elsewhere is still in
doubt.
Those present when President Pulliam
called the meeting 10 order were John
Heydler. secretary; George Doyey. Bos-
ton; Charles Ebbetts and Charles Ebbetts.
jr., and Henry Medicus, Brooklyn; Charles
W. Murphy. Chicago; August Hermann,
and Max Fleischmann, Cincinnati; W H..
Shettsline, and d. L. Reeves Philadel-
phia: Stanley Robinson. St Louis; John
T. Brush and Fred Knowles. New York !,
Barney Dreyfuss and W. II. Locke, Pitts
burg. The board of directors. consisting
Of Dreyfass. Ebbetts. Hermann. Murphy,
and Dovey, previously had met and re-
ceived various reports.
Many Giants Removed.
There was report on players re-
Emoved from games for kicking or sus-
pended. and there We're fewer OF both
than ever before in the five years of the
Pulliam regime. New York had the dis
tinction of having the most removals
twenty y-five-while there were two New
Workers suspended. The other cases OF
discipline We're apportioned as follows:
Brooklyn. eleven removals and two sus-
pensions; Boston, ten removals and two
suspensions; Chicago. twelve removals
and four suspensions; Philadelphia.
eighteen removals and five suspensions;
Cincinnati, twelve removals and one sus-
pension: Pittsburg. eleven removals and
one suspension: st Louis, thirteen re-
m0valS and one suspension.
President Puriam's report embodied a
number of recommendations. which will
be acted on Tomorrow. One was against
the sale Of liquids in bottles in ball parks.
and against the sale OF intoxicants I'm
the grandstands. Another asked Tor legis-
lation against artificial doubleheaders
and seven-inning games. except when
weather conditions make the latter neces-
sary. Pulliam asked that il be made
compulsory to play doublehesders on
certain dates; that is. that the playing
of them be taken out Of the hands of the
home club.
Another suggestion was THAI when
waivers are asked for they cannot be re-
called. The presidents report showed
that dressing quarters FOR visiting teams
are not satisfactory in four cities. New
York. Brooklyn. Chicago. and Pittsburg
Secretary Locke of Pittsburg. said the
report that Hans Wagner had retired
from baseball OH account of rheumatism
or some similar afiliction was not taken
seriously by his club. He said the great
German would be on hand as usual when
the bell rings next spring. He also said
there was no chance for any other club
10 get Tommy Leach. Cincinnati has had
a longing eye on Leach. hut he being
eliminated. George Stallings Is said 10
he a possibility for the position The
Brooklyn club would like to get Tommy
Sheehan. the Pittsburg third baseman.
and Patsy Donovan said to-day he cqNd
PhiIIies Wast Tenney.
Fred Tenney is stin al large. so 10
speak. Among others who would take the
crack first baseman is the Philadelphia
club Joe Kelley came up from Baltimore
and he and Dovey, Of Boston, will get
together some time The two are agreed
on salary. but there is a difference re-
e-ar5fre, tho rario1 Of .o,.ract L I-clto,-
goes TO Boston to manage he would like
to take Dan McGann along to play first
base and let New York have Tenney in
exchange.
Arthur Irwin has a scheme which he
viii submit to the magnates to illuminate
parks by searchIights and play games at
night Willie Keeler visited in the cor
ridor of the hotel and when informed
that Ban Johnson had q scheme TO shift
Official scorers from city TO city. re-
marked:
They don't need any scorers, the way
I've been hitting
President Murphy will give banquet
tomorrow night in honor Of winning the
pennant
Another visitor was j. r. Heisman,
president of the Atlanta club. He is a
football coach at Georgia Tech also. and
has a new idea for scoring football games
1t is to the effect that a system De de-
vised SO that team should get credit
in the score when it reaches the five
yard line. the ten-yard line, and so on.
The scheme is based on that principal.
so that in case Of tie score the team
that did the better playing should get
credit for doing ii.
a telegram was received from friends
of Tommy Mccarthy. now living in Bos-
ton, booming him as a candidate for the
Cincinnati management