Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-15
BASE BALL LEAGUES
IN ANNUAL MEETING
New Demands Of Players Fra.
ternity Will Be Discussed
by Majors and Minors.
ONE : LEAGUE DIsBANDs
Copyright. 1915.
international News Service

New Orleans, La, Nov. 18th,
National Association of Base Bal
Leagues met in annual session her,
today with the owners and officials o
minor and major league base bal
clubs and delegates from Throughout
the country in attendance. The meet
ing will continue through Thursday
Among the important questions ex
pected to come up for decision arr
the new demands OF the Base Bal
Players fraternity, including one re-
lating to contracts covering the clubs
control over injured players. Other
matters to be discussed included the
relations between players and minoi
league clubs, contracts, schedules
classihcations and releases.
President H. M. Sexton Of the as.
ISOLATION was unable to attend be.
cause Of illness in his family, and in
his stead Vice President Murnane pre-
sided.
The annual report, submitted by
Secretary John H. Farrell, showed
that twenty-six league organizations,
embracing l82 cities and towns in the
United States and Canada and en-
ploying 4,728 players during the play
ing season Of 1916 had qualified for
membership.
! Only one qualified member Of the
national association disbanded during
the last playing season--a Class d
league. Out of the twenty-six leagues
twenty-five started and twenty-three
finished; one league was disqualified.
The Canadian league did not operate
on account of war conditions. The
attendance this year as a whole ex-
ceeded by far that of the 1915 record.
Fifty-nine optional agreements
were exercised BY National associa-
ton clubs and 1903 by major leagues.
Players reported for release num-
bered 2,05l; for suspension, $50; for
reinstatement, l58. Twenty drafts
were disallowed and cancelled. The
total number of disputed cases han
died during the current year was $50,
and $24,663 was collected in players
claims and territorial liens and paid
to them without cost of any kind.
Only six claims were filed BY the
players fraternity.
The National league drafted TWEEN
ty-fiye players, the American league,
nineteen, and the National associar
ton, fifty-five. Including money re-
funded for National association
drafts that were disallowed, the Ma
tional league paid $37,500; American
league, 5000; National association,
$22,250, a total Of $82,o50. The sum
of $4,000 was paid on optional agree
ments between National association
clubs and $1,000 on options exercised
by minor league clubs from minors
for fifty-nine players.
Releases Of Players.
The amount paid for release by
purchase between National associa-
ton clubs was $42,63l. The sum re-
ceived for drafted players, optional
agreement players and released-by-
purchase players was $l34,581, and
for options exercised by majors from
minors, $30,4o0. In addition the Ma
tional association clubs purchased
from major league clubs by optional
agreement and outright sale, $50
players, paying $l35,505 to the major
leagues. The grand total of money
handled was $33l,350
A large budget of disputed cases
will be decided by the national board
of arbitration during the meeting in
New Orleans. Applications for hold
ing next years annual meetings were
received from New York, Chicago,
Atlantic City, Boston, Buffalo, Pitts
burgh, ST. Louis, Nashville and