Evening star., 1915-12-13
FEDS LAST CHANCE
Failure to Buy Place in Ma
tionaI May Mean Disaster.
PEACE PLAN OUTLINED
Several Clubs Now Are on the Mar
ket, Leaving Baltimore
Out in Cold.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, December 13-Before
another week shall have passed the
base ball map of the United States may
be SO changed that the fans scarcely
Will be able to recognize it, If. the
change doesn't occur this week. rumor
mas 1t that the Federal League will
pass quietly away before the winter is
over.
indications are that the America n
League has refused to have any hand
IN the changing of the map, and that
II Will be found in the same old places
next season. The American League
magnates are to gather here wednes-
DAY Tor their annual meeting, with
PROBABLY nothing more sensational to
oner to the news columns than the DOS
sible sale of J. Franklin Baker of home
run fame.
| In New York the National Leapue
magnates have been called to assembIe
.oInorroW and from various reports
there VIII be four or five of the big men
! OF the Federal League hanging about
| In the vicinity ready to be beckoued
into the assembly and form a new Ma
tional League. which will mean the fin-
| lsh of the Feds and the base ball war.
Ihis rumor was substanttated when
PRESIDENT Weeghman of the Chicago
REDS announced that he would go to
New York early in the week to be on
nand II anything came up. He made
the announcement just after reading a
long letter from President Gilmore of
the Independent league, and although
the Oh. cago magnate offered no details
OF the proposed plans. he stated with
considerable con emphasis that he wanted
the base ball tangle settled and that
he believed all the men of organized
[ base ball were desirous to accomplish
the same end.
Proposed Peace Plan.
! The proposed peace plan is as fol-
lows:
| Weeghman and his associates are to
purchase the Cubs from Charles P.
Taft and combine them with the Whales
to form one National League club to
play on the North Side in Chicago.
| George Ward and Harry Sinclair. the
wealthy hackers of the Brooklyn and
Newark clubs of the Federal League.
! respectively, are to combine and buy
| the New York Giants.
! Ed Gwinner of the Pittsburgh Feds
is to be sold half-interest in the
Pittsburgh Pirates and become part
ner of Barney Dreyfuss in the National
| club Of that city.
| Phil Ball is to purchase the ST. Louis
Cardinals from Mrs. Britton and con-
| duct the National League affairs in the
| Mound city. Along with his case is a
| report that he has already loaned $40,-
600 to the st. Louis Nationals.
AS the Federal League has already
kicked Kansas City and Buffalo out of
the league, such a plan of peace would
leave only the Baltimore club hackers
out IN the cold, and the belief Is that
they would be satisfied with berth
in the International League.
National League Attitude Unknown.
whether the National League will ac-
cept such plan of peace remains to be
1 seen.
The proposed peace plan Is feasible
because it can be brought about by
individuals instead OF by any oficial
backing down by the league as body.
II Taft desires to sell to Weeghn.an
the National League undoubtedly Will
offer no kick, as It would be willing
to have Weeghman as member. The
same 10 true in New York. Ptttsburgh
and st. Louis. It looks Ike 9 plan
whereby everybody would benede and
no one would suffer.