The Washington herald., 1907-10-29
MINORS ARE PACIFIC.
No Talk of War at Annual
Baseball Meeting.
PAT POWERS IS REELECTED
Impression that Ned HanIOH Was 10
Become President Is Speedily
mOusly Chosen to Continue at the
Head OF the Eastern League.

New York, Oct. 2S.-This is minor league
week In New York. and the corridors Of
two hotels to-day were filed with base
ball men.
/ The Eastern League held its annual
meeting at the Victoria, while at the
/ Fifth Avenue the National Board. Of the
National Association. the latter body be
ing the combined minor leaguers. met
prior 10 the annual meeting Of the Ma
tonal Association, which begins to-mor-
row.
Some interesting developments are hint
&c at as likely 20 take place before the
/ business Of the week is over involving
relations between the minor and major
| leagues. the majors being the Nationa!
and American leagues.
Report has had it that the American
Association is becoming belligerent and
threatening to break away from the M
tionaI agreement but the American As
ISOLATION representatives had not arrived
in town to-day. and the talk Of the other
minor league people was quite pacific in
its nature
Any impression that Ned Hanlon was
/ 10 succeed P. T. Powers as president Of
,he Eastern League was speedily wiped
out. for Powers was unanimously re-
elected president Of the organization.
which has just come through a prosper
/ Gus season under his administration.
Eastern League men present to-day
were as follows: President Powers. Law
renee Solomon, John Lyle, J. J. NcCaf-
fiery and Joe Kelley. of Toronto; Ed.
Hanlon and Moses Frank. Baltimore;
Fred Asher, Montreal; a. c. BUckenber-
ger. Arthur Seitz and c. T. Chaplin.
Rochester; ". ". Burnham, Newark.
Eugene T. Kinkhead and Walter O'Mea-
IA, Jersey City; Hugh Duffy and A. c.
Doe, Providence; A. H. Potter and Jacob
Stein, Buffalo,
Pennant TO Toronto.
The board of directors awarded the
pennant to Toronto and a new board
OF directors was elected, composed Of
President Powers and the Montreal. Jer-
| sey City, Newark and Providence clubs.
In relation to the case Of Pitcher Nc
Donald. drafted by Newark from Erie.
Pa, the Eastern League passed an ad-
dition &c the drafting rule, the same to
| be added TO the National Association
rules. that any player released by any
National Association club within the
period Of thirty days prior to the close
Of the current playing season shall in
every sense become a free agent and can
sign with any National Association club,
excepting the club that shall have re-
leased him."
Mcdonald was drafted by Newark in
the regulation time, but it was found
that he was not on the reserve list Of
/ the Erie club. The new clause is to pre-
vent a player being released by GER
tain club and then going back 20 that
club and escaping draft Mcdonald is now
or the rolls of the Washington club.
The National Board of the National
Association is composed Of T H. Muir
name of the New England League; NJ
II. Sexton. of the Three I League. ]. H
OROurke, Connecticut League; J. H
Farrell Secretary Of the National AssO-
citation; John O'Brien. American Associ-
alton; d. NJ Shively, Western League;
". M. Kavanaugh, Southern League, and
J. c. Ewing, Pacific League. Ewing is
the president of the Pacific League and
takes the place on the Board of its for
mer president, Eugene F. Bert
The National Board TOOK UP the case
of Martin Walsh, the pitcher bought by
the Chicago Nationals from the Danville.
(Va.) club, and decided that Danville was
entitled to the purchase money paid to
him. There was dispute between Dan
vile and Lynchburg over the player
Walsh is a brother Of Ed. Walsh, the
Chicago Americans pitcher.
Mcclure Good Enough.
Joe Kelley. who was drafted by the Bos-
ton Nationals, again took occasion 10 say
that he would be in Toronto as man.
ager next season President Taylor and
Secretary McBreen, of the Boston Amer
leans were on hand, and declared their
club was not looking for manager.
We have q good one in Jim Mcclure"
they said, and We are going to keep
him.
Secretary Barnard. of the Cleveland
club was another major Lacquer who took
an interest In the proceedings.
The American Association representa-
tives are expected tomorrow, but the
general opinion among baseball men is
that they are not in earnest about going
il alone If they are not allowed to put a
club in Chicago. and do other things that
they would like to do Maybe they are
talking war so they will get some con-