The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-16
BAUGH ON THE SCENE
 NSAN ANTONIO, TEX. Birmingham Leader Dicker- ing for Next Year
 BARONs GET BAKER
Andrews Refusese Offer of Elliott and Marcan for Carmichael and Covaleskie-Keupper Goes
 to The Billikens
By HUGH w. ROBERTS (suOrting Editor The Age-Herald)

With over 50 leagues repreSehteu tuo National Association of Professional Base- ball clubs opened its first session this morning.
 | The Southern league is represented by President Kavanaugh, R. H. Baugh of Birmingham, Frank P. Collins of Mem phis, C. S. Collson of Mobile, w. c. Hirsig and William Schwartz of Nash vile, William Stickney and Johnnie Dobbs of Montgomery and O.. B. An drews of Chattanooga.
 l The National league is represented by Charles w. Murphy of Chicago, Horace Fogel of Philadelphia. Charles Ebbetts of Brooklyn, Secretary w. H. Locke of Pittsburg and Roger Bresnahan of St. 1 Louis E. s. Barnard, secretary of the | Cleveland club, is the only representa- tive of the American league present. Louis H. Eilbroner and Larry Sutton, scouts, respectively for Cincinnati and 1 Brooklyn, and c. D. White and A. j.. | Clungeon, agents for Spaulding and
 Reach, are present in the capacity, they
 state of necessary evils. There are half a dozen visiting newspaper men also on the scene.
 As concerns the Southern league par l ticularly the most interesting matter in
 the air is the often repeated effort of
 the American association and Eastern league those Siamese biscuit, to declass the major of the south. When it is con-
 sidered, however, that President Kava-
 naugh actually dominates the convention,
 one feels safe in predicting that the eff | 1f
 amount to nothing.
 Southern leaguers are preparing to trade several men whose faces are fla
 miiar to Dixie fans. Chattanooga this
 morning disposed of Lejeune to Grand Rapids for S650 A deal has practically
 been concluded whereby Pitcher Keupper
 will go from Nashville to Montgomery
 Birmingham is anxious to trade Elliott
 Marcan, Mcbride and McGilvray for men
 as good as they, but so far no sue | cess has been attaine6e
 Horace Fogel of Philadelphia has prom
 ised Birmingham the use of Pitcher Ba-
 ker, whom Molesworth has been anxious
 to acquire, but was given little encour- | agement in reference to Catcher Car ter.
 President Baugh is on deal of Catch
 CT Lemon of the San Antonio club. It is not improbable furthermore, that 3ir- mngham will secure Pitcher Carmichael from Chattanooga President Andrews this evening turned down President
 Baugh's offer of Elliott and Marcan for Carmichael and Covaleskie.
 Three southern cities have invited the | +a cit in
 cities are Chattanooga, Nashville and
 Mobile.
 | The chances are. however, that Hot Springs or Milwaukee will get the de-
 cision The people of Texas have shown
 the visitors every consideration and it
 has been determined by the members of
 the association never again to meet out
 of minor league territory.
 San Antonio Tex, November 15.-Pres- ident William Kavanaugh of the South
 ern league brought about the first debate in the 1911 convention of the National | Association of Professional Baseball
 Leagues today when he proposed that the
 national agreement be revised and Class A be established so as to allow present | Class A leagues the same privileges as to drafting from minor league clubs en- joyed by the major leagues. The sug-
 gestion of MT. Kavanaugh that a rules | committee be named finally carried.
 The jurisdiction of the proposed com
 mittee was principally the point at is-
 sue It was tentatively agreed that the | committee can act only on the proposed
 changes in the agreement rules among
 the minor leagues J. Cal Ewing of the
 board of arbitration; c. F. Moll, president of the Wisconsin, Illinois league; President Tvs n; ;oIro of fIn league; President Tim Murnane of the New England league; President T. M Chivington of the American association,
 and President Sexton of the association
 will compose the committee.
 The association held it's first business session this afternoon. Thirty-tWo minor leagues were represented at the opening session, which was devoted principally to the reading of the report of Secre- tary John H. Farrell and the suggestion
 of MT. Kavanaugh.
 The report of Secretary John H. Far rel, presented today, gave the following: | Forty-seven organizations, embracing l 332 cities and towns of America and Can
 ada qualified for membership in 1911; | players contracts to the number of 10,527 | were received, recorded and promulgated; terms accepted to the number of 1868 | were examined and promulgated; option | all agreements approved were 175: exer- cised. i51 players suspended numbered l 919 and players reinstated 30S: players drafted by the National league. II: by
 the American league, 5S; by the National | associa tion, 12S; total amounts of drafts. s1S9 $50; amount paid for release by pur- | chase, s15S.000; total amount received
 through the secretary's office for draft | eG players, optional agreement players and those released by purchase, s362,000. - During the ten years of the National Association $2 ,150 had been handled in deals in players.
 l An auditing committee was appointed, 1 composed of President C. F. Carpenter of the Tr-State league, President Henry | Sievers of the Nebraska State league and | Pre- sident H. E. Castel of the Three 1 league. | Although having no official standing in l the convention a number of major league | representatives attended the session of | the Minor Leagues organization. The dei- | egation, which included Charles H. Eb- I betts president of the Brooklyn club; | Horace s. Fosle. president of the Phia- delphia Natonals; Charles F. Murphy, president of the Chicago Nationals; Will | liam H. Locke, secretary of the Pittsburg | Nationals; F. s. Barnard, vice president
 of the Cleveland club, and Roger P. Bres- nahan. manager of the St. Louis Nation ais. is declared to be the largest that 1 has ever attended a meeting of the Ma l tional association.
 The first of a series of deals to crop out was the outright purchase by Pres l ident William Grayson of Louisville from | the Brooklyn club of Al Burch, an out | fielder The price was not made public. l A number of other deals are pending. ! | Manager Roger Bresnahan of the st.