The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-13
WAR BETWEEN
TWO LEAGUES
As RESULT of Scandal Connected
With the World Series, the Ma
lors Are About Ready
to Clash.
RESOLUTION
CUTTING
Action Of National Commission In
Failing to Back up Ban Johnson
Hurt the American
League.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l /
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Garry Her
mann has refused to pick UP the gaun-
let thrown down by Ban Johnson and
there will be no baseball war if the
strategy and coolheaded business .
judgment of the chairman Of the Ma
tional commission can prevent 1t. The
betting early today was that Hermann
would be equal to the job.
While a baseball war makes good
sport page reading at this season of
the year, the fact that it would prove
a costly luxury to the men who are
making big fortunes out of the game
is not overlooked by the real powers
in the sport and the fiery resolutions
of the American league adopted yes
terday are generally regarded as a
harmless midwinter diversion. That
Garry Hermann was not frightened
by the DOGGY" was shown last night
when, with the resolutions showed in
to his hands as he sat down to the
banquet given the baseball writer's by
the athletic manager at the Aston, he
arose to the occasion and in speech
declared that 1T took two sides to
make fight and that he intended to
use all of his influence to prevent his
National league colleagues from be-
coming the second party to conflict.
/ Without any equivocation or quib-
bling Hermann declared that both as
member of the National commission
and as National league club owner he
stood for the most thorough investiga-
tion of the causes that led to the dis
agreement between the two leagues
and that he was strong for fixing the
blame for the New York ticket scam
dal-the casus belli in the present sit
uation-where it belongs regardless of
how high UP the guilty person was 10
Gated.
| Herrmanns speech was enthusiast
tically received by all the American
4 league magnates and served to com.
pletely disarm the postmaster, Ban
johnson, for the time being.
4 While there is every probability that
! the war talk will continue for sever
4 al months-until real baseball news
4 again becomes available the wise
/ heads figure that the monetary inter
est of the magnates themselves, who
know the actual cost of baseball
war, will in the end serve to insure
i against an actual break between the
major organizations.
Few believed that the Nationa
league would suffer to pass unnoticed
!, the cutting resolution adopted yester
day by the American league, which de
clared it would observe its obligations
4 to the National Baseball commission
and the National agreement. but tina
if would have no further dealings will
the National league except so far a.
may be requisite for the safeguard
ing of It's territorial and player
rights"
Wants Sole Charge Of Tickets.
The bitterest sting of the resolr
ton, however, was the paragraph
which declared the American leagu
would not permit any of it's teams t
enter into a worlds series compel
tion with q National league pennan
winner in the future unless the Amer
lean league was accorded sole charg
of the sale of tickets to games playe
on its grounds, with the understand
ing that it would not assume respoI
nf "a
ness end of the games played on tn
National league grounds.
A COPY of these resolutions was ser
to President Lynch of the Nations
league and fiery action was expected
; The action of the National commits
4 sion in failing to back up Presider
: Johnson of the American league in hi
5 demand for a thorough probe of tn
: ticket scandal in the recent world
i series, is solely responsible for tn
8 trouble. The National commission :
i, baseball's supreme COURTS compose
5 of the president of the National ar
: American leagues and of Gerry He
b mann president of the Cincinna
team and therefore National leagr
partisan. Thus far the American
p outvoted two to one in the commi
e sion.
y See Insult From Murphy.
:. johnson has been particularly insis
ent that he could prove that the tic
cts to games in New York found the
way into the hands of spectators.
this, he declares, he has not receive
the support of President Lynch al
{ Hermann, but has met their refus
4 to cooperate.
. 1t was this refusal on the part
). the National league members of Il