The Sentinel=record., 1911-09-01
BASE BALL
 FIGHT WARM
WAR BETWEEN AMERICAN ASSo- CATION AND NATL. COM. IS
 AGAIN IN EVIDENCE.
Looks Like Serious Rupture in High Baseball Ranks and May Mean New American As
 sociation.

Cincinnati. Aug 3l.--In finding as plain as 1t is firm, the National Base gball Commission today not only re- jected every demand made upon it lby the American Association, but went farther in standing that if the Ameri- can Association decided not to oper- ate under the rules of organized base ball, that teams would be placed lin every city on the circuit. While no mention of a league to do battle with the American Association was made, yet it was implied to an extent that could not be misunderstood.
 The American Association is given luntil September 10 to answer the commission and upon this answer Will hinge the question that now stands out paramount in the minds of base ball-will there be a baseball war;"
 In it's finding the National Commis. sion took particular pains to place the brunt of the worry on the should srs of the American Association and it is now up to this body as to whe- ther there will be war.
 President Thomas Chivington said:
 q intend to call meeting of the American Association in the very near future and until this matter IS taken up by my league, l cannot say what will happen"
 Immediately after passing on the demands of the American Association the commission took up the requests lof the Eastern League. While the petitions were not made public, il is said the only one of any import Ianca is plea that the drafting sys tenn for class A clubs be eliminated ientirely and that straight purchas- ling system be instituted The com. mission wiTT consider these demands further and may not ba able to act Iupon them at this meeting.
 The annual drafting process will take place tomorrow. Among those here today were
 w. M. Hirsig. Nashville. and Ar thur Irwin and Mike Finn of Little Rock.
 The commission also handed down several minor decisions.
 In it's findings in regard to tIhe Am erican Associations case, the Ma tlonal Commission declares the con. sessions can be granted only { in case the National agreement is amended in several particulars and It will recommend "tnat the radical and revolutionary reQuest' of the associa- ton be rejected. The decision re- hearses the demands of the American Association, which "has been as- sertive to the point of aggregessive- mess. It shows that in 1909 class was created fer the American Asso- citation, the Eastern League and the Pacific League through special base | ball legislation. In March of the same year this legislation was re- |scinded when the American Associa- tion and the Eastern League refused to formally ratify it.
 The decision takes up the demands Iof the American Association in de- tail and answers each of the fol ing order:
 T: That all leagues and clubs In organized baseball shall respect all contracts, reservations and territorial
 rights of the American Association and that the latter shall likewise re- spect all contracts, reservations anu Territorial rights of all leagues In or. ganized baseball.
 Each of these rights Is fully en- ljoyed by every league under protection and no league not in organized base ball should receive special privileges of this character.
 "2: That in lieu of the one man draft by the major leagues from the American Association, the American Association shall permit the major leagues to select one player from each of the American Association clubs at price of $5.O0O such selection to be made on or before July l of ach year, but the player so selected shall be permitted to finish the season with the dub from which ne is chosen.
 The drafting privilege cannot be abridged without infringing on the right of a player to advance in his pro ression. The number of players sub