The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-06
NATIONAL LEAGUE IS
LEADER IN REVELRY.
Will Celebrate It's FOrticth
Anniversary With Banquet
Wednesday Night.


10 settle back for a week of rcvclrH.
The magnatcs Of the National Lcaguc
come TUESDAY to begin their annual
schedule meeting. and before they get
through they intend TO paint the name
OF the parent major in letters OF fire
along the Great White Way. The Ma
tional League il forty years old II you
please. and will celebrate the event MT
tingly with - banquet at The Waldorf
Astoria Wednesday evening. g 80 SHARP.
x s. V. y.
This viii be- n great week for Pea
rock Alley and cnvirons. but not as gay.
perhaps. a. It might have been had not
an unexpected cloud gathered OH the
horizon of the newly established base
bail peace. This cloud will rob the
town of the presence of Ban Johnson.
leader of IN" .Nmc'ican League. and his
celebrated hcnchmcn. johnson had in
tended to assemble his colleagues, too.
FOR schedule and legislative discussions.
But he has postponed the american
League meeting until February II.
In chicago Tomorrow the skeleton of
the old Federal League antitrust suit
will lc taken from the closet 10y Judge
kcnosaw Mountain Lands at the request
of the obsircpcrous hackers Of the Bal
timorc Federal League club. These gem
tlcmen blocked the withdrawal last Fri
day OF the suit winch was instituted
q year ago January =. and which judge
Lands FOR months has held IN delibera-
ton. Lands notified the Baltimore in
icrests to appear before him tomorrow
and show cause why the suit should not
b. dismissed.
Johnson cancelled his invitation to the
National League celebration in order
to be on the ground in the approaching
lawsuit. lie also has other worries on
his mind the disposition or two tlcNc-
land bali clubs Tin the american League
and tn. American Association respcc-
tively) controlled bN charles Sumers
The banking committee which controls
his financial affairs insists that Soiuers
retire from the game.
johnson and his followers in annual
meeting assembled are always good for
at leds; on. spread head. But under cx-
istlng conditions il may bc well that they
saved TIE news Il fortnight. The Inter-
national League il going To cut in with
a SPECIAL meeting during the week. and
the international l.ctgu" happens TO he
OF some consequence just now. Indeed
II ID the u~SurlItluu of Baltimore territory
BY the Barrow circuit that prompted the
Oriole city Federal promoters to ny into
the faces of their former associates.
II T. believed generally that Barrow
and his associates Eold the key 10 an
easy solution II the only NcXing problem
that Coufronts permanent bi. ball peace.
Should Baltimore win its point before
Judge Lands the National Commission
doubtless VIII attrnp: pressure t. have
the Barrow ring Offer the Baltimore
malcontents som" interests IN the Inter-
national League franchise Of that city
Barrow. Who has Withdrawn from the
peace commission. j. ready To fight such
q suggestion to the poiut Of revolution.
Aside from the schedule. which mas
been approved already by both major
leagues. there Is little to uccup the at
tention Of the National League IN a bust
ness sense. Harry T. sinclair j. eN-
pcctcd to he on the ground 10 p"Illc the
''slaves' he still has in his coop. As a
rule >pring meetings develop more trades
Of consequence ilau other conferences.
Wherefore it f. got without the bound Of
possibility that a few swaps of iapur-
tanCe might hc cousummatcd. II is
known unoihc'ally that all of the teams
AVE asked multtud"s OF waivers. which
may result I'm wholesale switching of
players,
There appears littic Likelihood Of an
amendment to tn" National League
roster limit Of twenty-ouo players from
June / To- September I each season
President T,ucT ard the majority ~ the
club owners are of 3D." opinion that such
. low limit Ud~ ~ .'tly r's"uu~ihlr for
the eN"'pti"udlli "l"s' race OF 1915.
charles ~ Ehh"'s. IN" brooklyn inn
presarlo, VIII attempt one" more "a sS-
tahlsh radical changes go TIA" methods
o. drafting players from IN" minors,
TINS IT, 81" T." l"".. f'hh'i- has tried
unsl'.'-S'dIN several Times before l."
gam lh' r"noUrr'.'" Of the other httccu
mnl"l '''Si' 'Ihh presidents.
TINS ''h'nrr "i t.hn"tS - wei worthy
o. a 'l"'"H:N lrItl "" pr"uus.~ that
W''N 'h' 'E' "' MINOR l'iEH" PLAYERS
ehglhI' 10 'I''t ny MAYOR 'l'ipS mas been
d'ic ''n,n'' upon me presidents "i 'ho
N"SH' OF 'l' N'hi'' N"l'1 ''Ii 'h' IflN-
ics' 81 n'Ni,s = h'.t s'l'''i'n. S,'t,-
tolN "oHlI Hll''n''N H'Illl dl lu' hraIt
niai'll"' '''b "'h 'n~"f"I' fhU'iS =
p'"l' """'' CIV u" '"N' hl''' 'Iu" OF
e'r' ''i'"' "iN' 'i"I'' Tor us league
IN" SO coz "p u" '.r '',''l'"''' Nh''h
HouIh nave ''shIo pl,h 80 soon a. any
Srop AUTOMATICALLY from the biGdI"g
81 h"ll'N" MY system Of drafting
would result IN the greatest good 10 the
Gani'. SAID Ehlcts Yesterday.
"MInuI. l,tsII, ,luhs Dhi,r, Ia Tho nr,S-