The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-09
MAGNATES TO HEAR
new LEAGUE PLAN
Another MaiOrCir cuit to be Sug.
gc>tcd Supplaniing scheme
lo Take Nccghman IN.
FRANCHISES TO VI. SOLD
Cinrinnati. Cleveland. Detroit.
PittSbmry. Buffalo. Brooklyn,
Baltimore and Washington.

Baseball Waguatcs, big and little. will
confer here this week. and before they
finish II ~ believed that the Federal
Ieapnc movement will he snuffed out
crippled IN such u manner that 1t cannot
survive. The International League COM
prisiug Toronto. Buffalo Rochester. Mon
trcal Jersey city. Newark. Providence
and Baltimore. viii convene for the AN
nual schedule meeting at the Hotel Vic
toria at o'clock this afternoon. The Ma
tional League will answer the call of the
prcsidcn- Gov. John Is. Tener at the
Waldorf Astoria tomorrow morning at II
o'clock, ostcnsibly FOR adopting the playing
dates ON Wednesday the American
League. with President Ban Johnson in
the chair. will meet at tho Biltmore Hotel
Probably on Thursday the club owners
of tn" National and the American leagues
viii hold joint conference with the Ma
ttuual commission composed of August
Hermann. chairman; Gov Tcner and
Ban johnson. At this powwow the Fed
oral League situation will he formally
discussed, with the id,a Of suuclching the
so-called outlaws in such "A manner that
in future organized baseball will rule
supreme. l'uinig these sessions five or
siA club owners OF the American Assocla-
ton, headed 10y President Chivington, VIII
De within call while men Identified with
practically all Of the more prominent
minor leasucs will bc on the ground
AS exclusively announced by TuE St-N
week ago. the bis fellows in organized
BASEBALL have been working on "A plIn
20 take care Of Charles Weeghman the
chicago lunch room proprietor. who has
spglt money freely to promote the Fed
erAl League movement IN that civ Tho
10 operate another club IN the Windy CITY
IN tile American Association with grounds
on the North Side. 1t is known that either
me Toledo ur ST. Paul franchise in the
association can j." turned over to Weegh-
man II the ueccssar! consent OF 4. W.
Murphy OF the cubs and other National
League CLUB presidents can he obtained
80 lar Murphy, backed by the owners
OF the Brookll ne, Giants and pittsburxs.
has blocked these proceedings and it Will
not ho surprising IL learn that the owners
'i ne Il'illtts, Cincinnati Reds and the
Boston Braves fan into line to-day. The
reasons for the objections filed by these
nagndteS, which were printed IN ycster-
DAYS SrN, are said To be- gaining support
IN the ranks or the major leagues in view
of the BELIEF that the Feds are totterine
and II lett To themselves viii 40 to pieces
In fact Il National League club owner
said Yesterday that IL WIS a ! to ! shot
that Wceghmuu and his friends would be
allowed 10 sn.u for themselves after the
luattcr had been discussed at the coming
joint conference.
1T Is apparent that the Feds az Sat
urdaNS meeting IN chicago decided to
stall said thla club owner to THE SuN
'nan. They want to SEQ what will happen
~ this weeks meetings here. Their an
nouHcement that they NIL proceed with
Toronto IN their circuit ~ "A Joke for
We nave positive proof that they cannot
get grounds in that.city. The Feds would
have blown up ON Saturday II II hadn't
been FOR Neeghmdi's belief that he could
get into organized baseball by way Of
me American Association. II he had
thrown up the sponge then he would have
burned his bridges. So Gilmore was
ripped of 10 make a big buff about going
ahead in Toronto. M.eghman will find
out in due time that he has been monkey
eng with Il buzz saw"
with the plan to take care of Weegh-
'nan blocked, thorofore--uness Murphy
and his followers decide at the last
moment 10 Yield TO the wishes of Ban
johnson and others--an entirely new
scheme TO protect major and minor league
territory viii be suggested when the ma jor
leagues come together. Ii will lie out
lined by prominent mHgnate that the
formation of a new major league, to he
operated under the protection Of organized
baseball, can solve the problem, The
proposed new circuit Will involve tho
7 u,
Cleveland, Detroit Baltimore. Brooklyn
Buffalo and Washington. the franchises
10 DE sold To persons who want to get
into the game and the grounds of clubs
already operating in these cities to he
used. In order to provid" players for
this new circuit it will be suggested that
each National ana American League club
reduce its number of men from twenty
live to twenty, thereby setting aside eighty
players for the use of the new clubs
The originator of this plan seems 10
think that Baltimore and Buffalo. both
VI which are members of tho International
League, can sand two clubs and that if
the Fed promoters In those cities mean
business they can easily buy franchises
In the proposed circuit Vt is worthy of
note that Chicago is omitted from the list
~ cities to make no the new major
circuit. which may DO due To Murphy =
objections OF the plan 10 let Neegh-
man have an American Association fran
chise there, u is also thought that
another club IN Chicago, operated by
organized baseball, might result in heavy
financial losses because OF conflicting
dates But in the cities named IL would
he possible TO play without conflicts OF
any kind, the new circuit being medium
for the development of young players.
II this plan fails to meet with univer-
sal approval it IL q certainty that tho
magnates will discuss the old scheme OF
Brooklyn, Pittsburg and perhaps Wash
ington. with the American Association to
enter Chicago, Cleveland or Cincinnati.
Murphy utimatel IN Chicago on Sat
urday that while he was opposed to any
plan for taking in Weeghman he would
not object TO the entrance of the ,Ameri-
can Assoca tion for the purpose of fight
ing the Feds to n finish with conflicting
dates
Meanwhile Wceghman has refused TO
deny or affirm tho story that he will ac-
cept an American Association franchise.
which is taken to mean that he il play-
Ing waiting game Weeghman's part
ler in the Chicago Feds, a fish dealer
named Walker. is said to have reached
the conclusion that the Federal League
movement cannot succeed under presen nj
conditions and has advised Weeshman TO
20 slowly. Walker rs said to be more
conservative than Weeghman and is like
the man from Missouri, According to
reliable information Walker has held sew
eral secret conferences with men identl-
fled with organized baseball and has
urged his partner to await developments
Summing up the situation briefly il ma v
be said that while the big league mag
mates are ready 10 discuss various tdeas
for III" suppression Of the Feds none of
them to-day can predict with confidence
III" oul"o'p" OF this weeks couclave There