The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-13
big LEAGUES
I, FINAL MEETINGS
ON THIS WEEK
Nationals Meet in New York
and Americans in Chicago
Both Leagues Will Start Sea-
son April II

During this week the National and
Aemrican League magnates will hold
the centre of the stage for Few
days They will see their own Shad-
ows and then retire for the season,
leaving the places in the limelight to
the players. The National League
while the American League, at the
same time, will be ins session in Chi
cago. Both leagues will adopt play
ing schedules for the coming season.
At the Chicago meeting there will be
no fight over dates. President Ban
johnson attends to all those matters
for the club owners.
In the National League meeting
there may be a mixup. President
Lynch, Secretary Heydler and Presi-
dent Barney Dreyflss of the Pittsburg
club comprise the Schedule Commit
tee. Their work has been completed
and is ready to be submitted to the
magnates. President Charles H. Eb-
bets of the Brooklyn club. who was
tee by President Lynch, announced
after the December meeting that the
committee must frame good sched-
ule, fair and equal for all the clubs.
When the Brooklyn man gets to pick
ing at the dates he may stir up one
pensable at National League meetings.
During the winter there has been
much discussion in regard to chang
ing the playing rules. Suggestions of
all kinds have been made and freely
talked over. Many players have put
themselves on record as being op-
posed to any changes in the code.
President Ban Johnson takes the
same view and recently settled the
question for all hands by saying:
1.-The playing rules are all right,
and they will not be changed. The
American League has no rules COM
mittee and 1 will not appoint any,
because I don't see any necessity for
doing So.
That announcement must be taken
as final, because any tinkering of the
rules must, according to the National
agreement, be done by joint COM
mittee OF the National and American
Leagues.
The American League may take up
an important proposition recently
made by President Charles Comiskey
of the Chicago White Sox. Like
Johnson as the biggest man in base
ball at the present time and thinks
that Ban should be rewarded for hav-
ing made the American League the
powerful organization 1t is today.
Comiskeys scheme is to declare John
an equal basis with the club owners
themselves. This means that each
cub owner will have to give up one
ninth of his profits each year. John
son gets salary of $4,000 a year at
present and if he is declared in on
the percentage basis he is liable to
get four times that amount for his
annual stipend.
johnson evidently agrees with Char
| ley Ebbets that baseball is in its in
fancy" He said recently:
/ Baseball is going to grow for
ginning to see the game expand !
want to see it grow in every other
league as well as in the American,
but above all I want to see it grow.
The game deserves all the patronage
1t is getting and more, too. AS long
as we can keep it clean and free from
all suspicion on the part of the pub
lie we. are going to get more friends
every year 1t is the only sport left
for the American people at present;
and the people are showing their ap-
probation of the efforts of those in
charge of the game to keep it as it
should be,
1.-The victory of the Athletics over
the Cubs last fall will help the game
in both leagues more than anything
else could have done. Of course am
glad the American League now holds
the championship of the world, but
that is not what makes me feel so
highly gratified. The good of the
game is always above everything else
in my estimation