Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
ABOLITION OF DRAFT.
ISSTILL IN THE AIR
National Commission POstpOnes
Its MISUNDERSTANDING
Accomplished.
BARROW LEAGUE HOPEFUL

Although representatives of organ
lied baseball were in New York in
numbers yesterday to consider ways
and means of offsetting Federal
League opposition, there was little
evidence of serious consideration of
the question by the assembled mag
mates. Governor Tener, of Pennsyl-
vania. president of the National
League, presided at a brief session of
that major organization, at which
representative of all the clubs We're
present, but so far as could be learned
no action was taken. The meeting
adjourned until today
No meeting of the commission was
held, however. Governor Tener and
President August Hermann, of the
Cincinnati club, were on hand at the
appointed place, but Ban Johnson,
president of the American League,
the third member of the commission,
was unaccountably absent. President
E. G. Barrow, of the International
League; Presidents Stein. of the Buff
falo club, and Fogarty, of Jersey City,
and Managers Dunn, of Baltimore,
and Kelly, of Toronto, waited for
hours in order to be heard at the
meeting of the commission. 1t was
fnal4y announced that the commits
f'lOi HoulO Ilpl lilStl lGSl hight, pOSL-
ponement having been made until to-
day.
Various rumors were in circulation
as to the probable action to be taken.
That something radical was likely to
result from the conclave of the mag
mates was a general belief. Leading
men of organized baseball have de-
clared only recently that the Federal
League would not last through the
Tho IIndarPI1rranf
of talk about the headquarters of the
National, American and International
League representatives here to take
part in the supposed council of war
Indicated that the magnates were in
reality much worried about the in
roads made by the new organization
on the established leagues.
That out of war peace might be
evolved was enc persistent report. The
peace plan contemplated involved sat-
isfylng in one move the demands of
the American Association and Inter-
national League, which wish to be
raised to the major league status by
the establishment of the draft, and
composing the opposition of the Fed
erals by taking them into the ranks
Of organized baseball. The coalition
of Federal and International League
clubs in Baltimore and Buffalo, and
The. provision of a place for the
Waroa of Brooklyn, by admitting
that city to- the International League
circuit, were moves included in the
plans reported to be under considera-
ton. Similar moves, with the Amer1-
can Association as the building point,
were declared to be in contemplation
to solve the difficulties surrounding
consolidation in the Western terri
tory.
Dissatisfaction among international
League magnates with existing condi-
lions was strongly in evidence. Man
ager Dunn, of Baltimore, whom the
opposition of the Federals has driven
to a desire to transfer his franchise,
said he was anxious to get away on
the midnight train for Baltimore, and
3 that he would not wait later than
Sunday to decide what he would do
in reference to acceptance of offers
which had been made to him for the
sale of half dozen of his players,
for whom President Comiskey, of
Chicago, would pay S60,OO0, or the
transfer OF the Baltimore franchise to
Richmond, Va, for a similar sum,
Dunn to retain fifty-one per cent. OF
the clubs shares. Dunn will ask the
commission to waive the draft rule,
and should this be done similar ap-
plications are expected from the
American Association and Pacific
Coast League. He ana others DeneNe
a major league status would help in
combating Federal League opposi-
ton in such cities as Baltimore and
Buffalo.
Secretary John a. Heydler, of the
National League, would not admit
that any of these matters had been
discussed during the meeting of the
National League today, and none of
the others present during the session
would talk of the subjects that were
considered.