New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-08
Lively Row at Interna-
tional Meeting Over
Circuit Changes.
EBBETS WANTS TO
SELL NEWARK CLUB
Barrow Urges Cut in Playing
Squad and Schedule for
Coming Season.
By HEYWOOD BROUN.

The international League is Of ma
yor calibre when IL comes 70 squabbles,
and its magnates showed such ability
TO row az the opening Of the leagues
annual meeting in the Hotel Imperial
yesterday that the question of circuit
changes was put in the hands OF a
committee. The men who will take up
the reorganization problem are Joseph
J. Lanin, owner Of the Providence
team; Charles II. Ebbets, the Newark
mocul; c. T. Chaplin, Of Rochester;
Jack Dunn, Of Baltimore and Edward
, q. Barrow, president Of the lnterna-
tional League.
Although final decision IS still
B pending, enough opposition has devel-
7 oped 70 make IL highly improbable that
any international League team will be
placed in Brooklyn.
Mr. Barrow stated that the general
& opinion of the meeting was that sec
ond team at Ebhets Field would not
! be a paying proposition. This leaves
Syracuse and Richmond as the leading
; candidates for the franchises OF the
Jersey City and Baltimore clubs.
Two Cities Clamor for Teams.
Nicholas Valentine and George D.
Meehan, representing the Syracuse
/ Chamber of Commerce, were on hand
to boost their city, and came armed
with plans Of q new concrete, postless
j grandstand TO house the crowds which
will turn cut II Syracuse gets an In
ternational League team.
w. S. Bradley came 20 push the
claims Of Richmond The plan most
favored Is to allow the Syracuse in
terests to buy a half interest in the
Jersey City holdings of Thomas A..
Fogarty and William s. Devery, and 70
allow the Richmond men TO get like
interest in the Baltimore club stock,
held By Jack Dunn and c. II. Knapp.
No date has been set for a decision by
the committee on circuit changes.
There is a strong possibility that the
Newark club may change hands.
Charles II. Ebbets declared that he was
satisfied the presidency of the Superbas
gave him all the work he needed, and
that if he could get his price he would
be glad 10 sell Newark. Arthur Irwin,
the demon scout of the Yankees, has
made a proposition to Mr.. Ebbets for
the club, but the two men are believed
TO be a couple of hundred thousand
dollars removed from an agreement on
price. The price set by Mr.. Ebbets is
larger than the one named by Mr..
Irwin.
The board of directors went into ses-
sion Just before the meeting of the
league, and without dissenting vote
the directors awarded the International
League pennant for the season of 1914
TO the Providence club. This took
load off the mind Of Joseph J. Lannin,
who owns the team.
Then the league went into session
and the fighting became general. One
- g ~ MOI ha nj n
the limit of players which a team may
carry. Mr.. Barrow has recommended
that the club owners keep down TO sew
enteen men. This would be a radical
cut, as most of the teams carried
twenty-five players through the greater
part of last season. II is probable that
either nineteen or twenty will be set
tied upon in compromise. The presi-
dent of the league also ordered the
strictest economy and retrenchment all
along the line, and no one had any OBJ
lection 70 that.
The playing season was also under
discussion, and there was much senti-
ment in favor of later start and an
earlier closing. The recommendation
of Barrow was 14O games, instead Of
154, as in previous seasons.
Criticism for Dunn.
Jack Dunn, who dismantled q pace
setting team In mid-season by selling
his stars, received much criticism from
fellow-owners, who declared that his
policy had been detrimental TO the
league Dunn maintained that no other
course had been left open TO him, on
account of the poor support which had
been awarded to his winning team.
The men at the meeting were S. f
Hchtenhein, Montreal; ]. J. McCaffrey
Toronto; Jacob J. Stein, Buffalo; c. 7
Chaplin, Rochester; J. Dunn and c. II
Knapp, Baltimore; Joseph j. Lannin
". Donovan and Steve Flanagan, Prov
idence; Thomas A. Fogarty and Will
lam s. Devery, Jersey City; Charles H
Ebbets and Henry Medicus, Newark
The meeting will be resumed this morn
ing.
John NsIbout who pitched for Jer