Evening journal., 1914-07-25
BASEBALL MEN TIRED
OF CONTINUOUS WAR
Peace Between Fighting Fac
tionS Seen in the
Distance
WILL CARE FOR
THE FEDERALS


4 between organized baseball and its play
err, and between the teams under the
protection Of the national agreement
and the Federal League are going to
end Is matter that fans in most every
locality are discussing. The trouble has
continued with more or less activity on
both sides since The beginning OF the
4 playing season last spring. There have
oeeu suits and counter suits and many
fortunes have been spent BY both sides
IA an effort at supremacy. Both sides
are about the same place they were
+ when the friction began.
There is little doubt that organized
/ baseball and the Federals are both sick
and tired Of the disturbance. The Fed
erals would welcome admission to the
/ charmed circle OF the national agree
ment, but they will insist upon "com-
4 ing in" as third major league, 1t is
/ limited that organized baseball would be
/ perfectly willing to call it quits and
1 take the Gilmore contingent in, but
there IS objection Co placing the stamp
Of the majors upon the "Feds.n Base
4 ball writer's differ as TO the situation
and the prospects, but Fred Lieb, of the
/ New York Press conservative in
everything pertaining to his essays on
i the national game, predicts early peace.
/ His arguments follow
Despite tie fact that the baseball sky
i is still black with ominous war clouds,
/ little rays Of peaceful sunbeams are
slowly and silently piercing through
4 riffs in the clouds. There is still a lot
Of war talk fomenting from both hostile
camps. but it is chiefly bombast and
harmless prattle. The truth of the mat.
ter is that both sides are mighty sick
OF the present strife and are willing to
listen to any reasonable peace treaty.
One O. B. maguate, who has been hit
very hard by the Federal war, tipped
the writer off that peace was near.
/ Things cannot 50 on this way" he
said, "and when the 1915 races start,
everything will be on a sound basis
again The Federal League will be
/ changed a great deal by that time, but
most OF It's people viii be taken care
Of"
My informant would not say whether
the Federal League win be taken in
with full mGjor league privileges, but it
Is safe 20 pIAlict the Feds viii not con.
sent to peace under any other condition
Some stories have been circulated To the
effect that the International League
would absorb the Brooklyn, Pittsburgh,
Baltimore and Buffalo Feds, the Ameri.
can Association would take the clubs in
indianapolis and Kansas City and the
Chicago and ST. Louis Federals would
consolidate with the National League
club in those cities.
However, there is not the slightest
likelihood Of anything like that going
through The war cry of the Federal
League has been third major league,
with all that major league means" and
men like the Wards will not be absorbed
( by any minor league. AS to Baltimore,
1t is q dead issue as far as minor league
ball is concerned
The writer has recently heard more
about the Feds placing a team in the
| Bronx next season. but such move
will be made only in the event that the
war goes on. In spite of denials. the
rumor will not down that j. j. McCaf-
frey, Of the Toronto Internationals, is
dickering with the Feds.
McCaffrey is practically keeping the
| international League this season. "a he
has the only team in the Barrow league
which is doing any business. Toronto is
! by far the best minor league city in
America, and its attendances compare
favorably with those in Washington,
Cincinnati. Detroit and Cleveland. The
fans up there have an idea the town is
/ ripe for major league ball and would
50 strong over Federal team.
The Federal Leagues entry into To-
ronto probably will be of a peaceful ma
ture. They probably viii buy the To-
ronto franchise from McCaifrey and the
international League and McCaffrey,
with his part Of the purchase money.
will buy out the Kansas CITY Or iii
Louis Federal franchise. Such an ar-
rangement would only 60 through in
the event that peace Is declared. Ii the
war goes on, as Ban johnson saws Il
will 70 the bitter end, the Feds may not
be So considerate in their invasion Of
Toronto as TO pay real money for
coming in.