The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-16
FIELDER JONES ID
 BE BROWN MANAGER
Deal for Sale of St. Louis Club
 Is About Complete
NO EXPENSE IS SPARED
New Owners of Browns Are Said to Re Ready to Put in a Winning Team No Matter What the Cost
 May Be

New York, December 15.-Ben Ad- kins. water commissioner of St. Louis, Mo-; Mark Ewing and his brother. com posing the St. Louis stock brokerage firm of Ewing Brothers, and Messrs. Hall and Hodgen, prominently identi- fled with St. Louis interests, are the principals In the syndicate which prob ably will purchase the controlling in terest in the St. Louis American league baseball club from Robert Lee Hedges. Adkins engineered the deal and 1t was through him that the offer was made to Hedges.
 A special committee representing the American league and consisting of President Ban Johnson of the league; President Charles A. Comiskey of the Chicago club, and President Frank J. Farrell of the New York club, will go to St. Louis within a week to ascer- tain the standing of the new candidates for membership, financially and other wise If 1t is satisfactory Hedges will be authorized to sell and the new own CTS will be taken into full fellowship of the league.
 Incidental to the probable change in the ownership it was said at the an- nual meeting of the league. which came to an end today, that Fielder Jones would become the manager of the club. Jones is now operating a fruit farm in Oregon and last year refused to play for Chicago because the money offered was not sufficient. Hedges said today that the syndicate which will probably take over his holdings proposed to put in a winning team-that iss first di- vision team-at any cost.
 Plant Worth $5OO,0O0
 It is understood here that Hedges values his American league franchise at a quarter of a million dollars and his grounds, plant" etc, at enough more to bring the total consideration up to a little more than s500,000. Even with a losing team it has been said that the St Louis Americans have con sistently earned a net profit averaging $30,000 a year.
 The American league finished its bus mess promptly today and dispersed, but the National league meeting will con tinue tomorrow.
 The purchase of the Boston Nationals probably will be consummated by Sat urday. Part payment has already been made by ". Hepburn Russell and his associate, l.. C. Page, the millionaire Boston publisher, but the agreement was that Harris should retain owner ship of the club until after the present league meeting. AS soon as the meet {. h0 cIttl xsrilJ If4y change hands.
 MT. Russell said positively that Fred Penney will manage the team next season and will play first base if his legs permit He added that there will be four or five changes in the per sonnel of the team.
 Must Develop Men
 No club will sell a good player at any price," said Mir. Russell, therefore We must develop our own. We will first de- vote our energies and capital toward giving Boston a winning team and then we will consider the building of a new home. Until we have winning team the old grounds will be good enough"
 Besides approving the retention of the present classification of the Eastern and Three I leagues the National league to- day decided to call the umpires into New York to have their eyes examined.
 President Charles H. Ebbetts of Brook lyn who has been the most active mem- Der of the schedule committee for many years lost that distinction today. The league appointed President Thomas J. Lynch of the league, President Barney Dreyfuss of Pittsburg and Secretary and Treasurer John A. Heydler of the league as the schedule committee. They will meet with President Johnson of the American league late in January and ar range the schedule for the two leagues.
 Hermann Reimbursed
 President Garry Hermann of C1ncin- natl was reimbursed for chairman of the national commission.
 The national commission at Its final ses- sion today made the following decisions
 Reinstatement refused to Player Doe scher, who jumped his contract with Cin- cinnati, and who was twice before rein stated after jumping from Brooklyn.
 Andy Coakley was informed that the commission would decide his case against the Ckicago Nationals if he would with draw his case from the courts. He re- fused.
 In the cases of Elmira, which tried to keep the Philadelphia Americans from al afting O'Neal, and Jacksonville, which tried to keep Pittsburg from drafting Player Smith, the original drafts were certified. o'Neal goes to Philadelphia and Smith to Pittsburg, and the draft money goes to the fund of the National association instead of to Elmira and Jacksonville.
 The commission will meet in Cincinnati on January 8.
 Scranton traded Jack Hayes, outfielder, to Altoona for Pitcher Upp. Scranton