Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-10

A stormy two-hour session too
place at the annual meeting of the Tri-
State League at Harrisburg yesterday.
Altoona and Lancaster are anxious to
dispose Of their franchises and were
given until February l to sell out.
It is rumored that Allentown bust
ness men will take over the Lancaster
franchise.
There was a lamentable lack of en-
thuslasm. President Charles Carpen-
ter was late in arriving and left inn
mediately after the meeting. The Tri-
State League has been losing prestige
ever since 1t came into the fold of or
ganized. baseball, and it is predicted
that within a year a practically new
circuit will have been formed.
Contrary to expectations no attempt
was made to lower the salary limit at
present, SITS a month.
Harry Wolverton, the former Tiger
leader, Is IN New York completing the
final arrangements Of the Yanks' train
ing trip. Harry states hat the regu-
lars will spend about five weeks in
Atlanta, Ca, going into training on
March 4. The pitchers and catchers
will probably start out a week earlier
and boil out at Hot Springs, Ark.
A technicality that is of interest to
ball players was brought up in the case
of Infielder r. B.. Wagner, the Cornell
star who signed with the Yanks and
had a clause attached that he could
not be released to a minor league dur
fy1o Tho ounn oF 1911 The Maui vnrL
Club sent him to Jersey City, but he
refused to play there and he was then
turned over to Rochester, but never re-
ported. The New York Club claimed
hat Magner was not released during
the season Of 1911, showing only the
release to Rochester, which does not
go into effect until 1912. and the Ma
tional Commission decided tina Wagner
has no cause OF complaint, deciding
against his request to become a free
agent. If Magner is wise he will now
the commission how the New
York Club double-crossed him and the
decision may be reversed. He was
awarded s66 for back salary, and the
New York Club was fined $50 for fail
ing to file his contract with President
Ban Johnson.
Every member of the worlds cham
pion Athletics has been presented with
a solid gold diamond studded watch
fob, beautifully engraved, as a token
of the National Commissions esteem.
President j. J. McCaffrey, of the
Toronto Club, is in Baltimore, holding
a confab with Joe Kelley. The Maple
Leafs VIII nave more players on the
Southern training trip to Macon, Ga,
than any other team In the Inter-
national League. Last year the Leafs
were twenty-three strong. This spring
they will be eve more numerous.
The Macon Club Is sorry tha 1t
closed with Toronto so early giving the
Leafs the privilege of training there.
Cincinnati wanted to. work out there,
and a major league team is always a
better attraction than a minor league
club.
Billy Clymer, manager of the Wilkes
barre Club, is the 'Jawn Camel" of
the New York State League. He has
won three penrants in a row Now the
other magnates want to adopt a rule
that no team can have more than six
players on its roster who have played
for one year or more In a higher or
gani2ation.
Fiv men who played baseball OF the
Chicago Nationals before the war broke
out with the invading American League
in 1901 are now managers. They are
Harry Wolverton. Clark Griffith, Jim
my Callahan, Frank Chance and Bill
Dahlen.
pots" Miller has been ordered TO re-