Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-10-27
JOHNSON A BIG
BOULDER IN FEDS PATH.
Outlaw Leagues Affiliations With o.
3. Dimmed.

There seems to be one insurmount-
able boulder in the path of the more or
less desperate Federal league magnates
in their ambition to become affiliated
and that obstruction is in the person
OF Fan johnson, president of the Amer
lean league, backed, more or less
strongly, by all the club owners of his
circuit. says a writer in the Sporting
News.
leaguers had won a strong point in
the interests of peace in persuading
President Johnson to enter a meeting
OF representatives of the warning fac
tons in Philadelphia, the writer imag-
ined the big chief of the American
change OF heart and that at last peace
in the ranks of the belligerents was
near at hand, but 1 was disillusioned
when l visited the offices of the Amer
lean league and interviewed him soon
after he had alighted from the fast
train from New York.
What the A. L. leader has to say
undoubtedly will vitality interest the
readers of the Sporting News and is
repested here for their benefit. It
shows that peace in baseball is still a
remote possibility unless Nthe decision
time in December, forces the American
league magnates and some of The Ma
uonal league club owners to fall In
line for a reorganization of baseball
under a revised code.
II there is any movement on foot
for recognition of the Federal league
by organized baseball, 1 know nothing
about it," said President Johnson.
Furthermore. there is no reason for
recognition of the third. leaguers They
haven't leg on which to stand. They
are whipped to a fragile and are COM
INC 70 Co. al "a
done US all the harm they could. The
Feds have proved there is no room for
third major league because they
have failed utterly and recognition is
out of the question.
That meeting was in Philadelphia
received a telephone call from Garry
Hermann that there was some BUSH
ness OF importance and that he and
President Tener of the National league
wanted to see me. When l arrived at
the safe where the meeting was to be
held was told that some of the Fed
to sec me. They said Jim Gilmore was
there. told them.I wouldn't consent
to meeting If Gilmore was present
They then informed me that he had
been ousted, and 1 came in. Ball, Sin
clair and Gwinner of the Federal
league were there. fail to see where
in they stated anything definite they
wanted.
The meeting served no purpose ex-
cepr to give a wrong impression 10
some OF the fans and the press re-
garding our relations with the Feds
1t made 1t appear to some that a
peace conference between the Feds and
organized baseball was one when such
is no. the case. They got into this
mess and have hurt the game by their
tactics. and now as anxious to escape
as easily as possible. They have fail
ed at the gate. and that is the big
johnson. is backed by practically his
whole league in his attitude toward
the Federal league question Presi-
dent Comiskey Of the White Sox has
beer opposed to compromise with
the third leaguers, as have Joe Lannin
OF the new worlds champion Red Sox
and Frank Nevin of the Detroit club
the big three of the American league
and 1t Is presumed the other club own
ers Will agree with their attitude al
though perhaps they are not as dead
ret on fight to a finish as the three
club. owners named
The one big chance Of the Feds to
get recognition seems to be to make
their peace with Johnson and ComIe-
key and wean them away from the
survival-of- e-fittest idea on the Fed
eral league question. Should Commy
and Ban experience change of heart
l@annin and Nevin and the others might
be won over and the way for settle
ment of the baseball strife would APP
pear,