The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-12-16
DEADLOCK T|CHTENS
IN NATIONAL
MAGi1ATES STILL TALKING. aur
COMPROMISE CANDIDATE
SEEMS SOLUTION.

League of Professional Baseball c,nb-
is sfiil talking. The American 1ea.u.
! met today. transacted its business with
1 dispatch and adjourned until next year
but the senior organization dead
1 locked over the selection of a prc.i-
dent. talked for two hours and then
/ adjourned until 1880 O'Clock ton,or-
/ row. The club owners got as far as
I the election of officers. but no further
and the situation with regard to the
National league presidency remains
unchanged. John NJ. Ward commands
| four votes. John \. Heydler. present
incumbent, commands three votes and
one club owner, Robson of St Louis
refuses to say for whom he will vote
Although ii is predicted that he will
vote for Heydler. there seems to be no
weakening in the ranks of the men
/. against Heydler.
With this situation at hand Barney
Dreyfuss has consulted attorneys TO
ascertain what will happen in case
, ward receives four votes and Heyllcr
three, with Robson declining to vote.
He was told that. under the laws of
this state. the four votes would not
elect Ward. all of which seems to in
dictate that the National league has q
big powWow ahead of il before a de-
cision In reached. In some ways it
looks like compromise candidate.
who may or may not be Ned Hanlon,
former owner of the Baltimore club.
New Club Admitted.
With the presidential situation un-
decided the National league magnates.
of necessity. confined themselves to
routine matters today. Horace toge,.
representing the new owners of the
Philadelphia club. was admitted to the
meeting. many clubowners were not
satisfied with his statement that
Charles W. Murphy. of Chicago and
Charles p. Taft of Cincinnati. are not
the new purchasers. They are seek
ing more information along this line.
The new club was admitted to men,
bership, however. and Fogel named the
officers, himself as president; Frank
b. Elliott, vice president; Morris
Schcck. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. and l.
Schwartz and W. Conway. directors.
The claim of the New York club
owners against the Philadelphia club
for damages sustained when Phila-
delphia forfeited a game at the polo
grounds on October 4, was referred to
the new owners. as was William j.
Murray's claim against the old Phila-
deiphia corporation to carry out it's
two-year contract with him. Presi-
dent Hcydler announced that Players
Moren. Doolan and Knabe, fined for
their conduct in the game on October
1, had not paid their fines and would
be ineligible to play in the National
league until these We're paid.
The committee appointed in Louis
Vile last August to arrange for the
erection of q monument over the grave
of Harry Pulliam. former president of
the National league. reported that ac-
ton of this kind was unnecessary as
Mr.. Pulliam's family had erected a
monument. The league decided to be-
stow lump sum. not specified. ON an
invalid sister of the late preside and
To give her the interest on $1,000 in
her lifetime. Heydler submitted his
annual report in which he deplored
the protests of games. He argued that
club owners should show the same con-
sideration to umpires that they do to
players who lose games. The be-
hayior of the players on the diamond
last season was better than ever be-
fore. says Heydler. Receipts of Ma
tional clubs last season were 100 per
cent more than i'm 1908. the first year
in which the National and American
league worked in harmony.
American League Doines.
The American meeting recommended
the adoption of schedule of Isl
games for next season. Joe cantillon.
former manager of the Washington
club. was exonerated of charge of
disloyalty to. the league. The club
owners passed up the question of
wearing spikes to President johnson
and Charles Comiskey. with power 10
act for the league. Charles Sommers
of Cleveland was unanimously elected
vice president of the league. The next
meeting will be held in Chicago in
February. The Boston National league
club Internationally released Catcher
Al Shaw. and the st. Louis Americans
will release Second Baseman Williams
TO Minneapolis If they can get
waivers on him. Williams is destined
to manage the ST Joseph club il it
gets Western league franchise next
season. The Cincinnati club sold
Catcher Frank Roth to Minneapolis
and Third Baseman Doian and Pitcher
Lower to Denver. The Baseball
Writers Association of America re-
elected all officers.