Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-16

| New York, Dec 15.-The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs | is still talking. The American league | met today. transacted it's business with despatch and adjourned until | next year; but the senior organization 1 deadlocked over the selection of g | president talked for two hours and adjourned until 11.30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The club owners got as far as the election of officers but no far ther, and the situation with regard co the National league presidency re- mains unchanged.
 John M. Ward commands four votes and John A. Heydler, the present in- cumbent, commands three. One club owner-Robison Of St. Louis-refuscS to say for whom he will vote although 1t is predicted that he will vote for Heydler. Dreyfuss of Pittsburg says Robison has told him he will never vote for Ward. but he is not pledged to Heydler.
 May Have to Compromise.
 Wit hthis situation presented, Drey- fuss consulted legal talent to asear- tain what will happen should Ward receive four votes and Heydlsr three, with Robison declining to vote. He was told that under the lawslof this state the four votes would not elect Ward, all of which seems to indicate that the National league has consider able of a powwow ahead of 1t before decision is reached In some ways it looks like a compromise candidate, wbo may or may not be Ned Hanlon, own CT of the Baltimore club.
 Want More Light About Philadelphia.
 With the presidential situar;on uI- decided, the National league magnate5 of necessity confined themselves to routine matters today. Horace Fo- gel. representing the new and mys- terious owners of the Philadelphia club. was admitted to the meeting, hut many of the club owners were not sat- isfied with his statement that Charles w. Murphy of Chicago and Charles F. Taft of Cincinnati are not the new purchasers. They are seeking more light. The new club was admitted to membership, however. and Fogel named the officers as being hilnsele as president, Frank B. Eldott vice presi- dent, Morris Scheck secretary-treas IT, CT, and I. Schwartz and w. Conway directors,
 The committee appointed in Louis- vile last August to arrange for the erection of monument over the grave of the late Harry Pulliam, former pres
 
 that action of this kind was unnec- cessary in that MT. Pulliam's family had erected a monument. The league decided to bestow lump sum nos spe- cified Gon an invalid sister of the late president, and to give her the interest on $5,O0O a year during her lifetime.
 Presidents Annual Report.
 MT. Heydler submitted his annual report. in which he called attention and deplored the frequency of protests over games. He argued that club own. CTS should show the same considera- ton to the umpires that they do to players who lose games.
 The behavior of the players on the diamond during last season was better than ever before, Heydler said, and the New York club. for the first time in seven years, did not have one man suspended during the playing season.
 Most Prosperous Season.
 Figures submitted in the report shcw that the receipts of the National league clubs last season were just loo per cent. more than in 1903, the first year in which National and American leagues worked in harmony.
 The junior leagues at their meeting