New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-07
FEDS MAY FRAME
TERMS AT
MEETING HERE
Conference to Precede the
gathering of National
League Solons.
Roth SIDES DENY
FRANCHISE DEAL
o,rsri,ed Baseball Men Feel
Sure That Outlaws Will Never
Build New Park.

~. federal LEAGUE owners viii hold
~. .;a1 IN this city on Friday. It
m ,..,rsd Yesterday, and gossip had
=" 80 acme sort Of an agreement
u "a :. reached with the National
so..o Salons, who will convene at
H'sT sisorf Astoria on December IA.
~ ~ story that the Federal League men en-
aid be permitted to purchase the
s..stIses OF several National League
.isAs was revived but this was denied
Or r ~ Feds said they didn't want TO
= any franchises; the National
i.,vus people said thst no franchises
w. for sale. That seems 10 make 1t
',.aironus. bat the rumor spread de-
mite all diSavowEls. -.
W. 4. a. nrobabls that when the outlaw
mates 20 INTO session the fate OF
-. Vsrayk club will be decided. It is
.jrost certain that Harry Sinclair. who
- sontrols the JERSEY club, will pur-
Is.s big interest in the New York
...m. and will therefore have 20 DIS
,nsa az his holdings in Newark. Pat
PAYERS is named as a possible success
90, 70 Sinclair. but nothing definite
soals be learned on the matter at the
nee Of the league Yesterday after
,oon. Since 10 man may own a con-
,rolling interest in two clubs in the
federal League. it Is certain that SIN
,,ir will withdraw from Newark II the
y,v York club is put IN the field.
There IL a feeling among the organ
"a baseball men that the Feds will
-srsr build In this city. One man de-
AIRED his willingness 10 wager sl,O0O
ia, the park would never be built
,,d offered his bet contingent upon the
gutlsTs being successful In having the
Greet, closed. II the Board of Esti-
nate does not allow the thoroughfares
70 be closed the wager is to be declared
q.
hi, man, a keen, successful busi-
r,u man, said that it would take
srs,t sum Of money to reimburse the
tity for closing 143d and Hath Streets
even In consideration of the fact thai
ths Federal League would offer as par,
,isl compensation an exterior street
tlsng the Harlem River front and
rsg thoroughfare 200 feet east Of
khox Avenue. running from l4oth
Street TO l44th Street and from l4Zo
Street to l43d Street.
This same man expressed his beilei
ia; the Federal League men were pos
s,ssed Of more than ordinary business
seamen IN most things, and that he dld
10, believe they would run amuck with
lard earned money to grstify hobby.
lie said that the lesson taught by the
lslvre Of the Brooklyn Tip Tops would
scarcely pass unheeded. and that even
The most enthusiastic would hesitate
before they plunged any such sum as
sl,500,0o0 which did not promise 10
pay
All the doubling Thomases are not
in organized baseball. James A. Gil
more said that he did not believe that
the Yankees would build their park
his year, nor the year after. He said
II IS many words that Colonel Rupert
iad Captain Huston were bluffing and
holding back TO await developments.
Billy O'HsTa, Of the Toronto team, in
The International League, has played
h, last ball game, perhaps. He will
ail for England to join the aviation
corps in the British army, and by
spring hopes 10 be hurting bombs into
be German lines. O'Hara Is known 10
he fans Of this city and st. Louis. he
played centre field for the Giants dur
ING part Of the season Of 1909, and
vit let 20 10 st. Louis. "Wurra Wur-
"a as he was known 10 the fans, could