Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-10
LEAGUE MEETING
Flag for 1908 is Formally Awarded to
Chicago Club.
ALL OFFICERS ARE REELECTED
President PuIlinm in Hts Report
Makes Number of Recommended
lions which VIII BE Con-
sidered Today.


NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-Formal awarding
Of the championship of 1908 to the Chicago
club. reelection Of its present officers and
directors and the reading of the annual
report OF it's president, Harry c. Pulnam,
were the matters that occupied the Ma
tional League Of Professional Base Ball
clubs for the greater part Of the session
yesterday at the waldorf-Astoria, whore
club owners met-to open their annual
meeting.
Interest centers In the recommendations
made by President Pulliam in his report,
one of which was regarded as OF consid-
cradle Importance, as II II were adopted
1t would, II is believed. have the effect of
preventing many disputes and misunder-
standings over the playing off of post
poned games. Mr.. Pulliam's recommenda-
ton on this point was. that the fixing of
dates for playing off postponed games be
made arbitrary by rule. instead Of as now.
at the discretion Of the home club. Thus,
under the new rule a postponed game
would have to be played off on the first
day Of the next series between the two
clubs, on the grounds where the postpone
ment occurred.
Change in Ground Rules.
The presidents report also suggested that
the ground rules Of the worlds champion
ship series be adopted as the official
ground rules of the National league, so
that the foul line should be 25 feet in
length and the roped-off space back OF
the foul line twenty-five feet away from
that line throughout its length.
Statistics of the presidents report
showed that there had been ninety-four
removals from games. sixteen suspensions
md aIght fiyae fnrasad NJ nnnalt3az ar
various teams during the last season,
divided as follows:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS removals, three sus-
pensions and one fine.
Br~ooklyn-Ffve removals and two suspen-
sions.
Cincinnati-Three removals and two sus-
pensions.
pCticago-Ten removals ard three suspen-
New York-Twenty-two removals, three
suspensions and one fine.
Observation-Disclosures removals. four
Suspt nsions and one fine.
Pittsburg-six removals, one suspension
and two fines.
st. Louis-Nine removals and one fine.
The recommendation presented in Presi-
dent Pulliam's report will be taken up to-
morrow morning.
The election of officers and directors,
which was by unanimous vote, resulted as
follows:
President-Harry c. Pulliam.
Secretary-Treasurer-John A. Heydler
Board OF Directors-Barney Dreyfuss.
Charles II. Ebbetts, August Hermann,
Charles W. Murphy and George II. Dewey.
Would shorten Drafting Season.
An important piece of work performed
was the acceptance of the national COM
missions recommendation that the period
Of the drafting season Off major leagues
should be curtailed to extend only from
September l to 10 of each year, instead
of .as now to October /. If, as is expected,
the American league in its meeting tomor-
row accepts the same recommendation, 1t
will then become a part of the national
agreement and the Eastern league-Ameri-
can association combination will have
gained one of the points for which IT is
contending before the national commission.
National Commission Meets Today.
The league agreed to take a recess until
2 O'Clock tomorrow. At the same time the
American league meeting will be in ses-
sion in the Hotel wolcott. Preceding
these two meetings will come an adjourned
session OF the national commission. which
is scheduled to open at 10 o'clock tomorrow
at President Pulliam's office in the st.
James building.
The National league clubs were repre-
scented at today's meeting by George B.
Dovey for Boston, Charles H.. Ebbetts.
Henry w. Medicus and Charles H. Eb-
belts. jr., for Brooklyn. Charles W. Murphy
for Chicago. August Hermann and Max
Freshman for Cincinnati. William ].
shettsleine. D. l. Reeves. E. Hyneman.
Andrew Stevenson and James Potter for
Philadelphia, Barney Dreyfus for Pittsburg
and NJ. Stanley Robinson for St. Louis.
| New York was not reDraaantad