New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-04
Each Make Sa Speech and
Enters Inner Circles OF
American League.
NO CHANGE MADE
IN PLAYER LIMIT
Members Of Teams viii ReCe' Ie
Two Passes Good fer Any
Park i'm Country.
y, HAYWOOD BROUN.

By HAYWOOD BROt y.
tho last act in the purchase % the
Nov York Yankees was comp etcd yes
tcraay when Colo0e! Guppert and Cap.
tain Huston were elected members OF
The America. League. Ban Johnson
organization went aboIt the business
IN ha.a q, the Hotel Belmont m '''
usual b~.sN fashion and finished ''-
chores 80 session which lasted nom
O'Clock until 6.
The initiation Of e., colonel anC the
CAPTAIN was not arduous. The or,y
rite required was speech from eaCH
o. the new owners, and as everybody
knows who won't 10 the dinner .as'
week both mer are adopts IN the arts
o. o-atory
Whatever the National League may
commit Itself TO. the American League
IS rot 3. favor Of any way measures.
]. sees no necessity for economy.
After short discussion the oWne'"
decided 10 20 with q twenty-five player
limit "a IN previous years. he queS-
tiog of later date Tor traInl'
trips was 10. even considered. Each
player viii receive wo passes next sea
son good for aHy parE IN the circuit
This should serve 70 tighten the laoors
o. club secretaries and make life easier
for those players who are too bashtul
20 nsk foy passes The matter Of INT
ing the draft from the International,
the Coast League and the America,
Association was put in the hands or
Ban Johnson, who Will take up the
question with the National League
owners next week. The National Com
mission will meet on Saturday either
ir Cincinnati or Chicago.
The delegates at the meeting were
O. q
Yankees; Connie Mack. Philadelphla;
Robert /. Hedges, 81. Louis; Frank
ravin. Detroit; Charles a. Comiskey.
Chicago, J. J Lann8n. Boston; Ernest
barnard. Cleveland; Clark Griffith and
= s. Minor. Washington.
Ban johnson announced that he had
received word from Chicago that Judge
andis had promised to give decision
in the suit Of the Federal League be-
fore Saturday.
The American League went on record
as being bitterly and unslterably
against the use Of the emery ball.
THE Yankees will continue to play
a. the Polo Grounds this year, and ! .
imagine also in 1916" said Captain
Huston. I'VE don't intend 10 hurry IN
putting up a ball park. We have sew
oval sites N view. and when we finally
decide on one well build park that
Will stand up
Joe jackson is not coming hero after
all At least only when the other mem
bers Of the Cleveland club mrs in the
party. III ! let jackson go TO the
Yankees Id want the grandstand at the
Polo Grounds in return" said Joe BIZ
miugham. 40" added the young man
ager after a pause. 81 don't think Id
make a deal like that If | remember
right. the stand is concrete. and I've
de-"
The trade winds did not blow yester-
Csy. shortly after Birmingham had
soue'ched the rumor about Joe Jack
son. Captain Huston and Colonel Rup-
pert declared that there was no chance
q deal Whereby the Browns would
get Fritz Nasel in exchange for Earl
Hamilton. the !eft-handcd pitcher.
"Maisel will not be traded under any
consideration said the owners of the
Yankees.
Bill Carrigan would not hear a word
about letting the Yankees have one Of
his left-haudcrs. Sure. I've got four
southpaws." said Carrigan, but Leon
ard and Collins and Gregg and Ruth
are all mist class pitchers. ! expect 10
carry them all. hope TO have SHIFT
pitching staff like that reversible out
held Of George Stallingss -Four left
handlers and four rightAandeIs will
handle the pitching for the Red SoX in
fine style The only thing that's worry
'ug me so far is the way people are
wishing the pennant on US already.
The fight IN the American League ought
10 be hot one
The deal for Pip and High, the first
b8seman and outhelder from Detroit,
has been practically settled, and both
men will be with the Yankees next
season.
Bill Donovan has decided that his
first choice was his best one, and the
Yankees viii train at Savannah. On
the other hand. the Brooklyn Tip Tops
came 10 decision yesterday TO do
their preparation at Browns Wells,
Miss. Browns Wells is fifteen miles
from the nearest railroad station, and
there isn't q white light in the place.
The comparative results achieved by
the Yankees and the Tip Tops should
90 a cev.a.n length 20 settle the old
argument as 20 whether there Is more
health in tho city than in the country.
Tommy Connolly, ranking umpire OF
the American League, was about the
Hotel Belmont all day, but never a
harsh word was said 70 him. Connolly
was talking about pitchers and batterS'
and gave !, as his opinion that Wee
Willie Kecler was about the best man
who ever swung bat
no player ever had an eye, IKE
Keller" said Connolly. "lf a ball was
an inch outside Keller wouldn't 90 LOT
!, Tho umrires naturally came 20 have
a 10, Of respec, FOR Kecler's judgment
particularly as he never kicked. re-
member in one game catcher pro-
tested that the umpire had missed a
tb,rd strike on Keller. Tim Hurst was
the umpire. and he wouldn't hSten 10
tbc lick at all 1T must have been
-, "a Tim willie didn't swing