The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-01-07
PRESIDENTS Of
BOTH LEAGUES
To Be: IN CITY
SCHEDULES FOR THE CON-
ING SEASON WILL BE DIS
CUSsED AND ADOPTED.
RULES TO BE DECIDED ON
1t is Also Stated That While
Here the Big League Mag
mates Will Look Over Dover
Hall as Permanent Camp.
RULES TO BE DECIDED ON

Brunswick may not have the pleas
ure of seeing any big league base
ball for many years to come, but
Brunswick will this week probably
be the first city in the United States,
where big league club is not locat-
ed, to have a meeting of the schedule
and rules committee of the big
leagues. These meetings are held
often, but they are always held in
one of the large cities in which a
National or American League club is
located, but this week, Wednesday,
Brunswick will jump into big league
baseball circles in big letters.
President Ban Johnson, of the
American League, in Chicago Friday,
announced that the schedule and
rules committee of the two big leagues
would meet in this city ON Wednes
day, for the purpose of drafting. the
1917 playing chart; that is the COM
mittee will go over the proposed
schedules and see if any of the dates
of the two leagues conflict, and, if
so, the necessary changes will be
made. The rules committee will al
so hold a meeting on the same day
and one or two minor changes for
the coming year may be adopted.
This meeting viii bring to Bruins
wick a number of the best known big
league baseball magnates in the
country. The National League will
be represented at the meeting by
President John K Tener, former gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, former eXalt-
ed ruler of the Elks of the United
States, prominent politician, base
ball sport and all-round good fellow;
Secretary Heydler, and Barney Drey-
fuss, president and principal owner
of the Pittsburgh club. The Ameri-
can League will be represented by
Ban johnson, its president; Capt. T.
T. Houston, owner of the New York
American League club, and probably
one or two others.
This meeting was arranged by
President johnson after a conference
with all of the others, and Brunswick
was decided upon because the big
league moguls are all members of the
new Dover Hall club, and they will
combine business with pleasure.
Most of the members of the party
country place on hunting and fish
ing trip and they will be Joined, it
is stated, by number Of others who
are members of the club, including a
number of owners of big league clubs,
sporting editors of the big dailies and
others.
FOR TRAINING CAMP.
In this connection, it is stated by
those who are in position to know,
that while here these big league base
ball owners will take up the question
of making Dover Hall the spring
training quarters of three or four big
league clubs. OF course it is not con-
templated to bring any of the clubs
here this spring, as practically all of
them have already selected quarters
for this year, but the plan is to make
Dover Hall the permanent training
camp or three or lOur cluDs. IN or
der to do this it will be necessary to
build two or three diamonds, large
clubhouse, etc.
1t is also stated that number of
those who are coming this week have
decided to build bungalos on the
property. and while here they may
make arrangements for beginning the
work