Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
TEN DAYS BEFORE
LEAGUE DECISION
Johnson Says Fate of New
major" Will Be Set
tied Soon.
OPPOSITION FROM WEST

The baseball atmosphere, disturbed
yesterday by announcement that the
magnates of the organized game had
about decided to launch a third major
league as a measure to combat Fed
eral League opposition, was still
somewhat unsettled today. Echoes
from tlfe West of opposition to the
proposed move, on the part of Amer
lean Association men and other rep
resentatives of the organized game,
were heard.
Ban Johnson has left New York for
Chicago. All he would say was that
the matter of the new major league
had been left entirely with the COM
mission and that a final decision
would be reached within ten days.
President John X. Tener, of the Ma
tional League. did not linger long
after yesterdays meeting, and had
no statement to make. August Herr.
mann, of Cincinnati, chairman of the
National Commission, was still in the
big city, but he likewise was uncom-
municatlve when the subject of the
new league was preached. Mr.. Herr
mann planned to remain over to wit
ness the final game of the New York
Cincinnati series, the second of which,
~ bpiuots III Oht dLltiloalCG iNNOl uS
for the year.
Some Didn't Like 1t.
International League men in cities
not likely to be included in the four
said to be booked for placing in the
third league, together with four cities
from the American Association cir
cult, did not appear pleased with the
tentative plan, so far as they were
heard from. Tom Fogarty, of Jersey
City, was one of these.
There were observers of the stu
alton, however, who did not take seri-
ously the report that the makeup of
the new leaguel if one is brought into
being, is to be as indicated in yester-
days announcements. One surmise
that found belief in some quarters
was that the real plan would provide
for placing second teams in Brooklyn,
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Detroit and
Washington, Cleveland filing out the
Western wing, with Baltimore and
Buffalo completing the Eastern
division.
Variety of Opinions.
Organizing a third major league out
of the cream of the International and
American Association clubs is going
to cause the National Commission
more trouble than it expects. The an
nouncement Saturday night that such
a course was to be pursued in order to
fight off the Federal invasion brought
forth some vigorous remarks by or
gained baseball leaders against the
proposed movement. That the COM
mission has a gigantic proposition up
on its hands in the undertaking is now
apparent, especially when some of the
leading minor league heads frown on
the three big ring affair. Here is what
some say:
Coast League Against 1t.
President Allan T.. Baum, of the
Pacific Coast League, says:
when the Coast League went back
from its outlaw career into the ranks
of organized baseball in 1903 it was
with the definite understanding with
the National Commission that no
other minor league would ever be
given a higher classification than the
Coast League. If the reports of pres
ent plans be correct, that the promise
of the National Commission is to be
violated by raising the rating of clubs
from the international League and
American Association without giving
the Coast League similar recognition,
we will fight to a finish
American Association Not Pleased.
Thomas Chivington, president of
the American Association, said the
American Association was not party
to any such move. He said he could
not see how the association would
gain anything by such move.
He was inclined TO think that there
must be some misunderstanding about
the subject, as it had been agreed that
no new league could be created of a
higher rank than that to which the
American Association and the Coast
leagues belonged
Let Them Wary. Says Gilmore.
James A. Gilmore, president of the
Federal League, said the Federals
were too busy planning to obtain more
big league players to be worried about
what the major might do in forming
a new circuit
Let them do the worrying" said
President Gilmore. "They are wor-
ried more than they will admit, and
we are not troubled at all.
Will Die Aborning. Says Ward.
John NJ. Ward, secretary of the
Brooklyn Federal League club, said
that he did not put much stock in the
plan of organized baseball to place a
major league club in Indianapolis. He
asserted that organized magnates con-
tended last winter that there was not
enough room for three major leagues
and that if there was not enough
room then, there certainly was not
room for four major leagues now.