Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-12
Ed. c. BARROW
NEW LEADER Of
EASTERN LEAGUE
DepOsed President Powers Not
Present at Meeting and
May Fight.
IFrom a star correspondsnt.1 !

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Edward @
Barrow. of Toronto was elected presi.
dent of the Eastern League of Base
ball Clubs at the annual meeting oi
the league held here today Five votes
were cast for Mr.. Barrow by the rep.
resentatives of that number of clubs
who attended the meeting. Three clubs
were not represented, nor did Presi-
dent P. T. Powers enter the meeting
and 1t is understood he will protest the
election.
The five league members who at
tended the meeting and voted for Bar.
row for president were Vice President
Stein. of Buffalo; Presidents McCaffer.
ty, of Toronto; Jack Dunn, of Balti.
more: Joseph McGinnity, of Newark
and Lichtenstein, of Montreal 1t was
after l O'Clock when these men got
together and decided that it was time
to call the meeting to order for the
election of a successor in the league
presidency of p. T. Powers, whose tern
was expiring The meeting had beer
called for noon, but President Powers
had announced that he did not Intend
to call the members together until
p M.
Powers Deciiaes TO Attend.
The meeting was behind closed doors
but it was understood that in this
three or four minutes they We're in ses
sion President Dunn nominated Mr.
Barrow for the presidency and tha'
no opposition developing ballot wa,
cast for Barrow and he was declared
elected. A messenger was sent for Mr.
IrNrxA Ia1tf he tN afAt- H.
meeting room. Deputations also wer,
sent to secure the presence of Presi
dents O'Mara, of Jersey City; Chaplin
of Rochester, and Crowley, of Provi
dence. None of these gentlemen, how
ever, would consent to attend the meet
ing. An adjournment of the session
was taken until 2:30 o'clock.
The FIVE members claim that theil
action was entirely legal, as 1t was wei
over an hour after the time for th'
meeting mentioned in the call wher
they got together for business under
the call of the Vice-President It wa:
learned that on their first request thai
President Powers attend the session
they were met with a fat refusal, bu
that on their second call he walked
up to the meeting room, stood in the
doorway, shook his fist at the assem-
bled members and threatened to stoI
Sunday baseball playing if they wen
ahead with their program.
Joe McGinnity Talks.
President Joe McGinnity, of New.
ark, after the meeting indicated thai
this declaration from Mr.. Powers might
not have been altogether unexpected
as Powers came to him the other day
asked him where he stood and wher
McGinnity replied, you know where
stand; I'm against you,' Powers inti-
mated that it might not be a difficult
matter to shut off Sunday baseball in
the New Jersey cities represented il
the Eastern league.
Those who expected President 2. T
Powers, of the Eastern League, to
make an announcement OF lI- position
in regard to the presidency of the East
ern League, were disappointed, for Mr.
Powers shortly after noon declared that
he would define his position in the
meeting-room during the session, which
is secret.
Mr.. Powers was about the corridors
early, but he failed to make known pub
licly what his plans were. He refused
to give out statement as to where he
stood as to the presidency, telling al
who asked him that they would know
when the meeting was over. 1t Is
understood that the anti-Powers fac
ton had q conference last night in the
Continental Hotel Newark, planning
a line of action. Who participated in
that conference it was impossible to
find out. Whatever decision they ar
rived at they are keeping to them
selves
At 1920 o'clock the magnates had
not gone into session, 1t was expected
though, that the men would get to-
gether before many minutes. All the
magnates were on hand at that time,
but 1t was very difficult to get an ink
ling of their plans from them. They
had conducted open warfare on Presi-
dent Powers so long only to lose out,
that they are going quietly about their
work this year.
Charles T. Chaplin, president of the
Rochester Club, who is a Powers man
from the word go was on hand with
his usual support of the Marathon
promoter. "If Powers runs he'll get
our vote" he said. Chaplin would not
commit himself to the choice of a man
in case Powers refused to run. All he
would say was that the man who
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