Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-07
DOESN'T CONSIDER
The FEDS AT ALL
American League Winds Up
Annual Business Maintain
ing Standpat Attitude.
NO CHANGES IN OFFICERS
Disposed to Reduce Price of Seats at
Worlds Series and to Cut the
Player Limit.

Chicago, Nov. Without changing
its standpat attitude toward the Fed
eral league and without even chang
ing the personnel of its own organiza-
ton, the American league concluded
its annual meeting yesterday with the
discussion of several matters design
ed to benefit the sport without taking
definite action on any OF them.
Frank J. Farrell continued to be the
representative of the New York Yam
KEGS throughout the meeting. and, so
far as could be ascertained. big Bill"
Devery remained a silent partner in
the ownership of the Gotham club.
Whether he will be retained as a part
ner so silent he never VIII be heard
from again. or whether the deal for
the transfer of Devery's stock in the
New York club was not ripe for pub
lie consumption at this time was not
disclosed by the club owners.
Secret Action Possible.
The American league has had the
reputation in the past of washing its
unclean linen without stopping traffic
on the boulevards. and may have done
it again in the case. SO far as known
there was no disposition to separate
Frank Farrell from the New York club
If he desires to stick, which apparent
ly he does.
BY many it is believed the New
York American league club is one of
the means by which a settlement of
the baseball war is to be brought
about by permitting the Wards of Fed
eral league fame to transfer their eX-
uberance from Brooklyn to Manhattan
borough through the purchase of De-
very's stock in the Yankees. No sub
sanitation of this rumor could be had,
and in fact it was specifically denied
all the way down the line.
Constructively the club owners dis
cussed the advisability of reducing the
tariff at future worlds series games
from the present exalted scale of seat
prices to one close to the regular
prices for a championship season. 1t
was found to be the sentiment of the
league that too much coin is evolved
out of the big post season event, and
it is proposed to remedy this by cut
ting the seat prices to those prevail
ing during the regular season.
Before any change of this kind can
National league clubs to agree and the
national commission to sanction the
move. There seems to be no doubt,
however, that the other interested
parties will agree to the change.
Would Cut Player Limit.
AS a step toward getting back to
sanity in the matter of operating ex-
penses the club owners discussed the
of reducing the limit on
the number of players to be carried by
each club during the season from %
to 20. Definite action in the matter
was deferred until the spring meeting
out of Difference to the National
league, which may want to have some
thing to say in the matter.
This year the existing limit of 25
players has been disregarded utterly
by both major leagues on account of
the readiness of the Federal league
to pick up discards as fast as made
by the majors. This move to curtail
expenses next season indicates the
American league club owners antici-
pate there won't be any Federal league
TO bother them in 1915