The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-22
Peace Wiih FederaIs To Be Made Before
 Opening Of Season

New York Oct 22@That particu- lar dove of peace which must sooner or later replace the war eagle on base balls nest to hatch out real profits may be towering soTnewhere in the offing, but if it is it is limiting it's as sociations strictly to it's own thoughts Tn spite of the avalanche of reports that have suddenly been turned loose to the effect that the f1apptng of it's wings had been distinctly heard and that it had Inmistaka;bly been. seen rapidly approaching with the festive olive branch in it's bill. it can be stated positively that it has not approached when the Braves blew themselves to the worlds cham mpionsEip a week ago Tuesday.
 Every time the bird threatens to come forth in a burst of prosperity g sunshine. or something like that, the cannonading of some Sbaseball of fIciaFs choice drives it rapidly back to cover. Which is to say that if the powers that be would get down to work and devote less time to sending forth weird rumors and denying weird runnors baseball's prospects for next year would rapidly assume brighter hues. They know that without peace are the business men they profess to be it behooves them to get busy if they are to- save their Investments.
 An exhaustive investigation has dis closed that nothing approaching even the sembIance of peace overt1res has been made except the meeting be- tween Cary Hermann, chairman of the National Commission, and Charles Weeghman. president of the Chicago Club and one Of the principal packers of the Federal League, in this city last week.
 And that, according to Garry Hermann, was decidedly informal and had nothing whatever to do with peace between organized baseball and the Federal League"
 For a time 1t seemed that some thing was at last to be accomplished, or rather had already been accom- pIfshed A report. sTnanatiug from statement that on Monday night he had talked with Hermann on the telephone and that Tentative" ar engagements had been made for peace.
 This Hermann empha1icaIIy de- nied Either the report from Chicago was absolutely without foundation or there is a serious snaisund derstand nding's somewhere.
 It is apparent that organized base ball and the Federal League must come to terms before another year Neither can afford to enter the sea son or 1S1 3 SE411 at war. IL would mean financial loss for both, losses just as great as were suffered this year.
 Since a working agreement is in- evita:b1e the sooner they settle their differences the better off they will be financially and the better off the game will be.
 Organized baseball has held back because it expected the independents to die with the closing of their season at the latest However. the Feds have shown that they intend continuing in the field even though they must req 1ize that the loss will be great. They are in the game ito stick,'' to quote James A. tGiImore. They may be in the game to stick, but they're not in the game to be stuck-not if they know what's what. For thisI reason the annual meeting of the organiza- ton to be held on Friday and Satur- day in New York undoubtedly will be crowded with peace talk and it would not be surprising if soon thereafter formal negotiations between organ ized baseball and the F'ederals were opened.