Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-12-10
WEDNESDAY MEET
IS UNEVENTFUL
Very Little Doing at Gath
ering of Major Moguls
Yesterday.
CONNIE MACK TO
KEEP HIS POST
Will not Leave Athletics, He
Says-Yankees Still
Hang Fire.

New lorh. Dec 1v.-ln sharp con-
trast to the sen-a ationa. developments
Tuesday, the annual meetings Of the
National and international leagues
failed 10 produce more than routine
announcements yestcrda% Even the
deals planned by me American league
represented ,.y Fan Johnson and SeF-
eral club owners. .lung ire and rumofs
supplanted facts.
Johnso;. stated that there arc
$50 ley yeiopn:ents n the proposoa
change % ownership Of ihe New ofh
AmericaI. league club. but hc WAS n
with Frank ], Farrell. presen, cNeru-
tive OF the ciub, and L representative
Of tine New YORK National league CLUB.
ii is stated al agreement was reached
whereby the local American league
team Will Je permitted TO play at the
Polo grounds during 1915 and possl-
bly, 1915.
Price is Stickcr.
This agreement has removed any
obstacle in the MAY OF completing the
transfer of tn" club. and it appears
I n" question Of price is the one de-
tail To be arranged. That this diff
ference of opinion between Farrell
and Colonel Jacob RUPERT, the pros
ne"tiNe purchaser. may cause the
deal tu fail through. Was Indicated by
a remark made ny johnson last night.
'Frcsitent Farrell he said, has
named his nri'" bur Ruppert has
not seen fix yet to meet it.
1t is reported Farrell offered to sell
his control for S4a0.OO0. which is
$4,000 less than his original figure
hut the new men that Johnson is en-
deavoring to interest in the club stood
on their first offer of 100000.
Denies RumOr.
During the evening the American
league president denied the story from
Philadelphia that the Athletics fran
chise had been sold to q new group
of capitalists.
Minor developments Of the day In
rluded the statement that Charles
Doom. former manager of the Phila-
delphia Nationals, was offered three
year contract by the Federals at a
large salary. together with Il bonus
for signing. Doom said he would be
willing to sign with either a National
Or American league club at the same
salary and forego the bonus.
REDUCING Expenses.
Tn connection with stories about the
change in the ownership of the New
York Americans is a report that Con-
nie Mack is also negotiating for a
block of the stock in the club and that
II the deal goes through the maker
Of worlds champion teams will lead
the Yankees in 1915. In confirmation
of this report the trading Of Collins
to the Chicago White SoX is cited,
which it is said. is in line with new
policy on the part of the Athletics
owners to reduce expenses by break
ing up the high salaried intield, of
which Collins was pillar.
This policy to retrench is not con-
fined to the Philadelphia American
league club. yesterdays meeting of the
National league magnates develop
ing similar attitude in the adoption
of resolutions limiting the number of
players and cutting short the spring
training season. Further moves along
this line were expected today.
The International league had be-
fore 1t today Il plan to reduce that cir
rlit to six clubs by dropping Jersey
City and Baltimore, although the
1lansfer of these two clubs to Rich
mond aud Syracuse was still an un-
settled problem.