Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-07
BY J. ED GRLLo.

1t required hardly two hours for the
American League to settle all its bust
ness at the annual meeting in Chicago
Yesterday. There was the usual dispatch
displayed i'll disposing of matters up for
consideration, and thee was not the
slightest evidence of friction.
In December the National League will
hold its meeting in New York. 1t is
, safe guess that it will require the old
league at least q week to dispose of its
affairs while there is sure to be all sorts
of arguments and disa greementS over one
hing or another.
Though the National has had a spien-
did example set for it by it's younger
rival in the matter of displaying har-
mony and cal business tact, it has never
. benefited thereby, and continues to have
it's wrangies and delays at every gather
ing it holds.
American League club owners are too
busy attending to the affairs Of their re-
spective clubs to waste a lot of time in
base ball politics.
The farming out to Atlanta of BIZ
Morley, the infielder, comes as surprise,
for it was supposed that Griffith would
retain him for utility purposes for
next season. The letting out of Morley
leaves the team with three infielders, any
one of whom can fill the utility position.
In addition to Joe Gedeon, Griffith has
Holland and SmithAtwo Atlanta recruits
on his reserve list, and he evidently has
q good line on their ability. or he would
not have been apt to dispose of Morley
. before giving him another trial in the
spring.
If it is true that the Federal League
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contain reserve clause it has dug its
own grave before it IS IN real action.
| 1t is the reserve rule which has made
organized base ball possible. But for 1t
the game would never have prospered as
| it has, for the very good reason that If
the players were free to go where they
pleased at the end of a season the clubs
representing the largest cities would have
all the stars. because they could better
afford to pay big salaries than their
smaller rivals. The result would be Il
one sided circuit and lack of interest.
| The Federal League may figure that It
will not have any real stars fo. which
! there with be u demand in fast company
| and there will undoubtedly be All agree
| meIt among the teams not to meddie With
each others players. Such q pact would
virtually take the place Of the reserve
clause, but If II is the intention 10 make
| all players free agents al the end OF q
| season the leaSue's career Is sure to be
short lived
! Just where some OF these base ball
!, trade runlors emana-e from would be in
I, terestiIg TO know, but the prize of this
!; years crop comes from Chicago and is
/. TO the effect that a deal is on which vii!
! give Joe Jackson to the White Sox and
send Ping Bodie to the Maps. Nothing
/, that has ever been suggested III the way
of base bail swap could possibly be
more absurd than this. II IS Z. knoWn
/, fact that Bodie has been hanging on TO
III i'll ,x.tft 4 Co Id ..5r.,
| Of his teeth lie is Il fair hitter, 10 be
/ sure, but that just about lets him out.
! Callahan, o. course would make the
deal suggested. but while the Cleveland
management may have faults It is not
likely that It would lend Itself to deal
which would take the greatest hitter of
the age away from their team.
That the American League would OPP
pose the movement to abolish the world S
series was to be expected after President