Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-13

WIrH the presidential question
w settled SO speedily, it is ex-
pected that the Eastern League
magnates will wind up their meeting
today. What little business which re-
manned to be transacted could easily
have been crowded into two hours and
then the Eastern leaguers will go to
the Hotel Breslin to mix in with the
National League managers, moguls
and magnates.
Edward Grant Barrow, manager of
the Montreal Club last year. was elect
ed to the presidency of the Eastern
League at the annual c%onclave held in
the Victoria Hotel, New York, yester-
day. The election of President Ed
ward G. Barrow, former Montreal
manager, was not without political
maneuYers.
The Barrow faction called a secret
meeting shortly after noon, when the
big meeting was scheduled to be held,
and when the Powers supporters from
Jersey City, Providence and Rochester
refused to attend-or were not asked
to attend, as some of them declared
the other five clubs representatives
gave out a statement that Barrow had
been elected. That was a death blow
to P. T. Powers.
Powers Furious.
He fumed and fretted about and de-
clared that the meeting was illegal,
but he saw in a poment which way
the wind was blowing by that straw
vote, and the meeting he called at 2
o'clock was but a verification of his
fears. He dfd his best to make a
graceful retirement, and then issued
a statement that he had never intend
ed to be a candidate, but several of
the Eastern League managers and
magnates declared that he had, not
withstanding his statement to the con-
trary, approached them and asked
them for votes.
Joe Kelley said after the meeting
that Powers had r~eproached him for
not holding McCafferty's Toronto vote
for him. Kelley laughed and said that
Powers's hint about Joe controlling
McCafferty was an ~insinuation on Nc
Cafferty's ability to act for himself.
All Cut and Dried.
Though Barrow denied 1t, there was
a paper sigped by the presidents of
the Newark, Buffalo, Baltimore, To-
ronto and Montreal clubs in Barrow's
possession. showing that they would
support him. so that the election was
really cut and dried before the mag
mates ever convened. When the first
meeting was held a note was sent to
Powers in the corridor. asking him to
attend, but he refused. When the
afternoon session was called at 2:15
o'clock Barrow was nominated by
Jacob Stein, of Buffalo, and Charles T.
Chaplin, of Rochester, presented Pow
ers's name Barrow won by a score
of 5-3 and Powers resigned and with
drew from the meeting.
Having cleared up the presidential
question, the Eastern leaguers decided
on O schedule to be of the same length
as that of last year., 154 games, and
the season will be opened on April 20
with the Western clubs playing in h
East. the same as has been the custom
n other years.
The schedule meeting will be held in
Baltimore on February 6 through Jack
Dunn's effort, and when this was put
through the Oriole leader was as happy
IS a 2-year-old boy on a Christmas
morning. Jack, it developed, had been
working in this direction for some time.
Joe McGinnity, looking after the in
~terests of the Newark Club, was a
busy man. Henry Clay Smith, McGin-
nity's partner, failed to put in an ap-
pearance. Smith telegraphed today
that he would reach New York this
morning.
The Tiger leader said tina. he had
received more than fifty applications
for the position of secretary, but that
nothing would be done until he heard
from Mr.. Smith on the matter.
Il have been talking with several OF
the managers" continued Toe, with
the object of securing a couple of
pitchers from the major leagues and
a third-sacker. OF course, I cannot