The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-07
Ed Barrow Will Head 3rd Major:
Leading Minor League Cities of East and West to Be Represented Springfield and Rochester Are Slated for Place.

According to reports from New York, Newark, Baltimore, Buffalo, Toronto. Columbus, Louisville and h. dianapolis have been selected to form the new baseball league which will bear the name of the Union League of Professional Baseball Clubs The organization of this league will be ratified at 9 special meeting of the club owners to be held in New York within the next two or three weeks. Edward G. Barrow will be elected president at 8 salary of $10,O00 a year. Newark, Baltimore, Buffalo and Tor onto will formally resign from the International league. wl.ile Toledo, Columbus, Louisville and Indianapo-
 lis will secede from the American as- sociation- The Union league will op- crate under the protection of the Ma tional Agreement.
 The promoters of the new circuit have no desire to masquerade as a major league" They are prepared to conduct business under the rules that have governed the International league and the American association for the past 15 years. They will not demand representation on the Na- tional Baseball Commission but 1t is
 
 lieved from the drafting system which will enable them to keep many of their best players. In short, the Uion league will be a big minor cir cult covering the best eastern and western cities that cannot get into the National and American leagues for obvious reasons. The formation of the Union league will receive en- |couraEement from the National Com
 mission and the two majors for the reason that the plan is expected to help baseball in many ways
 It is believed that the other minor
 leagues will receive new lease on life
 because they will be strengthened by
 the addition of new cities which will
 be assizned here and there in a. gen
 eraI reorganization of the minor |1eague field. The best cities in this
 class are Milwaukee. St. Paul, Min neapolis, Kansas City. Providence, Richmond, Rochester. and Montreal. It Is possible that the American As socfation will be continued next year with Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapo- lis. Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, St. Toseph and Lincoln. A new Inter- national League may be formed to in- clude Providence. Rochester, Syra- cuse. Montreal, Utica, Albany, Otta- wa and Springfield At least, this is the arrangement that is under serious consideration.
 The Union League circuit Will not compel the clubs to make long rail-
 road Jumps. In order to keep down the transportation bills the promot- CTS were forced to eliminate Kansas City and Milwaukee in the west to- gether with Providence in the east.
 The clubs geographically will be grouped In pairs. Newark and Bal timore are less than five hours apart. Buffalo and Toronto are very close together. Toledo and Columbus are conveniently located while Louisville and Indianapolis are natural rivals The longest jump is from Newark to Louisville, less than twenty-foul hours. The northern cities. Toronto Buffalo, Toledo and Columbus are or l the line of the New York Central
 while Newark. Baltimore. Ipdianapo- lis and Louisville are embraced by the Penna- Railroad system. The Untor ! League schedule will be limited tf 1 one hundred and forty games, eacr I club playing twenty games with eacr 1 of it's rivals This will require three I conparative1y short western and east. | ern trips with the pennant race start 1 ing about May 1 and closing on o1 ] about Sept, 25.