Arizona republican., 1915-12-16
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FN' GGaSGQ wire
 NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-NationaI league magnates attending the annual meeting of the elder baseball circuit here, while refusing to be quoted of flcIally, made it plain tonight that they were not oVerconfident that the National league would agree finally |" peace proposals propoundcd at the recent conference of National and Federal league officials, and present ed at Chicago this afternoon to the American league by President Drev- fuss of the Pittsburg National league club
 AS the story of the tentative agree ment developed it appeared that the Federal representatives had imposed conditions which the National leag- uers' in the light of retrospect. did not consider so favorable as was at first supposed. The conditions were sad to be such as victors are wont to dictate and this did not appeal Reeniy to the magnates of the senior major league.
 President August Hermann of tbe National commission said tonight that i representatives of the National American and Federal leagues would meet here Friday afternoon to dis cuss peace terms and the future con duet of major league baseball. Amer lcan league officials at Chicago sent 1 word tonight that a committee would ; leave tomorrow to attend the meet ing.
 President James A. Gilmore of the i Federal league and Harry F. Sinclair. one of the chief packers of the inde- pendent organization, tonight reiter- ated their previous statements that all Federal league players must be taken ! care of by organized baseball before any lasting peace can be arranged. They said Federal league contracts call for approximately $380.O 900 in sal i aries. That the National league will balk at adopting such responsibfI- ity at this time was believed to be indicated by the attitude of one club owner, who stated that while he had no objection to assuming the con- tracts of such players as might come to him in the course of a general dis tribution of players or through con solidation of clubs. he was opposed to agreeing to pay salaries of a large number of players, whom neither he nor other magnates could use He said he would accept the terms i of such former players of h.,s club | who had jumped to the EcderalS who might be useful to him now. but that 1 he would consider all others as free | agents as far as he was concerned.
 President Gilmore stated that peace must be reached not later than De- 1 cemher 2I. since the Federal league 1 option on the property for the pro l posed park in New York expires on l December 23 and unless there was a 1 complete understanding between all 1 those concerned in professional base 1 ball before that date the Federal l league would purchase the park prop
 erty and include it in the assets of
 the league at such time as a peace agreement might he reached.
 This property is said to be pur- | chasable at S1.2500 900, which sum the 1 Federal league packers have agreed | to pay for the several city blocks in i cluded in the site
 Sinclair who is said to be the chiei
 packer of the proposed Federal league
 club in this city, said he was not as | yet certain that a complete under | standing could be reached, but h.
 hoped a satisfactory agreement would
 he arranged. He stated that he hat l been in consultation with several Ma 1 tional league magnates. that they haC | discussed the situation in a frank anC
 business like manner and agreed tha
 there must be readjustment of con