New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
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not think he needed any. FIvcry-
 body knew this, so there was no news
 in this remark. Furthermore, there
 Was no talk about a mcrecr with the
 New England league at the meeting.
 Nobody supposed thcrc would be, with
 onkS two clubs in this section Vi&ibly
 In favor. Springfield and Hartford want the merger. President O'Rourllc
 held the proxy of the New Haven club
 and Hugh r. Rcddy. treasurer of the > brldGcport club, has alWaNs been Il strong advocate of whatever Jim
 U Rourle wanted, merger or no mrr- sef. Jim O'Eourkc expressed forced optimism in the future of thc Past
 efn association He said the next
 meeting of the league would tell
 whether not there would be six
 or eight clubs in the league.
 The "Cmform salary Limit Plan.
 No committee came from the Now England league to compare notes. . Though the maximum salary limit is ' $2,0o0 fixed for class clubs, d scn- tment in favor of keeping within that linlt was expressed, though not ad- kvert!sed. The league wants to run ball clubs as cheaply as it can with
 out the fans getting wise. If a man > aser should decide on a limit of 5 500 2 or S1,S0O he will get many imitators. \ The salary limit is sure to be under S2, 900 tho coming season. The New
 England league, in the event of the } merger scheme proving a failure,
 wants a working agreement with the , Eastern association. It wants a uniform salary limit President pRourke says he knows of no uni ! form salary agreement between the leagues. though he was very much in favor of the plan
 , President O'Rourke confessed after
 much questioning that he had had {,
 Representative see P. F. Shea, who
 controls the Hampden park ball . gro>nds in Springfield. The repre- sentative was supposed to be "protect- ing" Mir. Carey's interests. O'RourAe said that he never supposed for a
 minute that Mir. Carey would hop to
 the Feds. and he saw no reason for
 notifying Carey of tho 'worll' done
 for him until the league meeting.
 However, Carey was indignant. He
 waUted to know why organized ball | should be trying to secure a ball park in Springfield when there already was oHe III SpTlnEhClu U lLOuTke was playing inside stuff, but, on the sur face this move appears as an error
 and as a hit for Carey. O'Rourte
 says the thing was done I'm erely" to
 protect Careys interests in Spring field. Some think O'Rourke saw or som obody else saw Shea in the inter
 ests of Gene McCann, who would hop
 to Springfield the moment MT Carey
 decided to jump to the Feds. Me- Cam declared that Jim Clarkin of IIartford tried to get an option on the l yHampton park ball grounds, but Carey did not know this, nor does he i believe it.
 Mcssrs. Carey and Clarkin were the l first to leave the meeting. and they | went away in a rush with Dan O'Nei' 1
 on tho hotfoot. What O'Neil was 1
 here for, no one seems to know; Clarkin always needs a friend and he |
 invited O'Nei. O'Ncil hobnobbcd ,
 around the corridors, telling the di- rcctors "what was what' as far as n G saw it, but nobody could make out why he was so interested. Maybe he
 thought the association would sud-
 denly find itself without a president
 or with a franchise it wanted to throw away Anyway, O'Nei was here and he was here all day long. He was asked if he wanted the job as l president of McT<innons ghost league, butIhc dismissed that question.
 League directors present were Bridgeport, Hugh F. Rcddy: New
 Britain, William Scinski; Hartford,
 James H. Clarkin; Springfield, Will