Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-10-21
merry time IS
NOW DEVELOPING
It is Said Definite Charges
Will be Made Against
League Head.

Duluth. Mimi. Oct 21.-A. H. Pull
ford, ousted magnate of Winnipeg. is
in Winona planning with Scott Laird
Of the Winona club and other officials
OF that club for the fight that will he
made against President John Bur-
meister at Omaha November 10. when
the case Of the Northern league "mys-
terry meeting will be laid before the
national commission.
From Winona comes the report
that ,Pulford is gathering facts and de
tails with which to fight the head of
the Northern league and those asso-
ciated with him in the movement that
resulted in the canning" of Pulford
and the dropping Of the Winona club
1t is stated that Puford will make
direct charges of deliberate and
Well-planned attempt to secure valu-
able baseball holdings for nothing and
to secure them in the most brazen
and unsportsmanlike manner posi-
BILE.
The Fight Grows Warm.
From what has leaked out of the
the hearing before the national body
at Omaha promises to be sulphuric in
Its nature
It is said that definite charges will
be brought against John Burmeister
and several of the magnates Of the
0o08 Q0 III Gil cllOIL " CAUSE IHtlI CA-
pulsion from organized baseball.
Winona Is to make g. fight. 1t Is said.
and possibly believing that in union
there is strength, Mr.. Pulford Is gath
ering facts. preparing data and in
general shaping the case that he and
the City Beautiful officials will place
before the consideration of the tri-
bunal of the great national game.
Pulford has stated that Burmeister
should be driven from the game. and
that he will invoke the aid of the civil
courts to retain his holdings in or
yanized baseball. If Pulford is the
nghter that gossip says. the doings at
esting before the chairman breaks his
Bavel In calling for peace and Roberts
rules of order.
The Balance OF Power.
meister. Blume, CantilIon and Som
mer, against the Little Two" Pull
ford and Laird. Horace Webb can't
be counted in with the regulars or ir-
regulars as yet, as the high arbitra-
Mr. Webb. Just where the support
of Grand Forks is placed in this con-
troversy, Is difficult to state. And an
other consideration-perha Grand
Forks is not right now a member OF
the league.
IuC WHOIe procedure. QdIlnS 1TOn
the merry meeting in this city to the
now quite famous mystery meeting
held behind the doors Of John Bur
metster's Office. has many angles of
quitting interest.
Civil law and baseball law have
been clashing in ragged and oft times
raging lines of controversy during the
hast year. Pulford has threatened to
'.haye the law on" Herr Burmeister in
this case, and the Northern league
may be tied up in a tangle, should
Rulford fail to get satisfaction at
Omaha.
Winona View.
Here is what the Winona Repubh-
ean-Herald says in part of Pulford's
presence in the City Beautiful:
Owner A. H. Pulford, Winnipeg
magnate of the Northern league, who
was ousted by President Burmeister
and his mystery meeting some few
weeks ago. was in Winona yesterday,
In conference with local baseball di-
fectors. President Pulford of Winni-
peg met with the Winona magnates
Tor the purpose of arranging definite
light against the league head
'The final chapter Of the Northern
league squabble will be written into
record next month when the case is
presented before the national baseball
Commission at its session in Omaha,
Neb.. November 10. Mr. Pulford re-
cefved the news that his case against
the Northern league would be heard
ut that time. Mr.. Pulford will be
present himself and will fight to the
Anish for the protection of his rights
IN the Canadian city.
"Winona on the other hand has