The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-12
Fed Presidents Change Of Front
Points to End Of Present
Third Circuit
:. .AMALGAMATION is THE
PROPOSED PLAN
International League May Be
Supplanted by Remnants of
Outlaw Organization
BY HAROLD v. WILCOX.

bf HAhOLD v. WILCOX.
II James Gilmore had done any
thing last night but come out with 4
! Dointblank statement that IL was prob
able that Charley Weeghman would
buy the Cubs and that the days o. lie
+ present Federal league were number
81. everybody would have continued
+ stcadfastly and contentedly in the be-
hcf that that was just what was g"ing
8 70 happen.
Since Weeghman has been after the
Cubs. It has been popularity believed
That he would buy them, that the
Wards. OF Brooklyn. would follow
+ srit either In Brooklyn or New York,
md that the outlaw circuit. as now
formed, would be doomed because Of
tue desertion OF its financial strength.
Dut Gilmore's part In the drama that
the baseball powers are acting was
70 shout defiance and yell bloody muir
Ger whenever peace was suggested.
For the Fed president to calmly pre-
I dict the end of his beloved rebellion
h has upset our equilibrium. We are
tempted to look for the Ethiopian I'm
(. the coal bin. II sounds terribly like
3 = double-cross was somewhere immi-
nent.
In other words, Jim Gilmore has
branded his o. X. on the peace plan
supposed TO have been suggested, by
\ crgsnized baseball and endorsed by
Y The American league. which. by the
way, 10 the real victor of the war.
+ GILMORE said yesterday afternoon, &C
cording to credited statement that
n present plans carry Weeghman
wound buy the Cubs, that that team
and the Chifeds would merge. that
/. thu Fed park In the Windy city would
& ~ used by the amalgamated clubs,
on0 that Joe Tinker, beloved by all
4 Aest side fans, would manage the
team. He added that after that deal
went through, similar one would be
put over in st. Louis. Brooklyn, and
E the American association cities
where the outlaws and that league
have been fighting. and that the Fed
teams In International league terri
tory would probably join organised
hall and practically supplant that cir
cuit, which Is suffering from very
oerious nervous breakdown. These
&: oastern towns are to form the new
. Federal league, says Gilmore, al
(. though the name may be changed.
a Gilmore says this league Is to have
major rating.
Seriously, there Is no reason to
doubt that Gilmore Ii sincere In his
abatement, and that the swan song OF
!. the present Federal league IL being
oung. even II the tune is little lively
b Tor . dirge Since his last war
/, hoop. Jim has probably been let In
n the deal. and that may explain
his amazing calm for the past few
days and his quick change OF front
And now that the treLty OF peace
rs about to be signed, 1t is a good
\ time to gossip about the brows that
should be adorned with victory's lau-
g rel wreath. There is no question but
that the American league has reason
4 % blow itself to joy feast. II has
Everything TO gain and nothing tol
loee by the conflicts end. IL will
probably get back the few players II
( {ost, regain the patronage that was
fhreatened. and be able TO chortle
I With merriment whenever its stars
+ try to boost salaries.
The National league will not lose a
whole lot. A change In the owner
ship OF the Cubs Is desirable. A
block of stock from somewhere will
have to 60 to the Wards, and proba-
BY Gilmore win have to be taken
care Of. Those contingencies un-
doubtedly cover all the surrendering |
the old circuit will have to do, and
4 Il certainly has even much more to
gain than has the American league.
h So far as the Federal league Is |
concerned. II Gilmore. Weeghman and
the Wards really want to be baseball
n1agnates, they have won a great vic |
3 tory without question. What the rest |
OF the outlaw hackers will get out Of
It Ii an open question. With the pos
3 sfble exception OF the st. Louis aggre-
cation. they will probably have to be
satisfied with what little they can get
out OF the minor league game. III
\ they don't like that, they will proba !
bly, be told to 20 back from whence
they came.
r'he players are the boys who will