Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-16
NATIONAL LEAGUE
BRINGING END TO
WINTER BASEBALL
Senior Major Managers Finish.
ing Up Business Of Annual
Meeting in New Yok Today.
Nothing but Routine Business
Expected to Be Done.
WI HAT routine business which re-
w mains to be transacted by the

wv HAT routine business which re-
w mains to be transacted by the
National League magnates Is
expected to be cleared up today. The
American League lovefest is over. Ban
Johnson has been appointed. as usual.
to draw up the American League
schedule. and President Tom Lynch ap-
pointed a committee OF John Heydler,
Barney Dreyfuss and himself to do the
National Leagues work in this direc-
ton.
There was a wrangle in the National
about the umpires. and the Philadel-
phia Club. protested that KLEIN was
partial, but no action was taken in
the matter. The sensation Of h day
was the dropping of Charley Ebbets
from the schedule committee. of the Ma
tional League. He has been q regular
on this committee for twenty years.
That Willie Keller will probably play
with the Toronto club next year is the
latest. Joe Kelley and Willie are old
pals, having played with the Champion
Orioles.
Joe Crisp, the former Tiger backstop.
who became the property of the st.
Louis club by the Spade addelI-C Crisp
deal, was awarded a nice little Christ
mas package by the National Commits
sion yesterday. Crisp met with an In
jury while playing for Newark last
year and when he went to the Browns
he again was hurt. st. Louis refused
to pay his salary for the rest of the
season during which Joe was compelled
to remain idle. and q complaint from
Joe to the National Commission fol-
lowed. The former Tigers claim was
sustained.
Charlie Carr, manager of the Maps,
Tigers and Indianapolis, has hooked up
with the Utica club. He will manage
the team and cover first base.
Jimmy McAleer. manager of the
Washington club. was mentioned as a
possible purchaser OF the st. Louis
Browns. but Mac says that he is salts
fed with Washington.
Ban johnson has again been chosen
to draw up the American League
schedule.
John T. Brush sent a letter Of condo.
lence yesterday to p. T. overs.
The National Commission will meet
again in Cincinnati on January 8.
Friends Of Bob Bescher and the FAM
in general will be delighted to learr
that the crack outfelder of the Reds
will be able to play ball again next sea.
son. 1t was feared that the injuries he
received in New York last fall would
permanently injure his chances of play
ing again.
Joe Kelley says that John Camel put
one over on him when he got pitcher
Dessau with Chubby Manster last fall
from Brooklyn. Dessau was with Bal
timore before being plucked by Brook.
Ign.
George Stallings has secured Pitcher
Frank Corrigan from the st. Louis Ma.
tional League club.
Camel has booked exhibition games
with Billy Smiths Chattanooga team
for April 4 and 8.
James McGraw. ex-secretary of the
Buffalo club, has not yet hooked up.
He says that he has had offers, but has
not taken any definite steps.
Frank McTague. the new Newark
secretary, will become actively en-
gagged in his new role on January 3.
The announcement of McTague's APP
pointnent was made in yesterdays
Evening STAR.
Despite persistent rumors to the
E%contrary, Joe McGinnity said that
Larry SchIahy will be with Newark
next year, and Joe ought to know,
There was a rumor current yesterday
to the effect that Larry and Charley
Dooley had purchased the Troy club OF
the New York State League. Those
who are supposed to know say that the
Troy club Is a goldbrick.
|. Fielder A. Jones when shown a New
York dispatch stating that he might
become manager of the st. Louis
American League team, said last night,
Nothing to 1t; there is no such pos
sibility. Every time there is a change
Of management or change in owner
ship of the ST. Louis team this same
story. hobs up.
"When 1 made the statement a few
months ago that / was in the market
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