The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
National Club. Owners
 Favor Closing Sept. 1
Meeting Held Yesterday to| Discuss Baseball Troubles -Dreyfuss Sent to Amer ican League Meeting to Act With Rival League.

New York, Aug. 3.---There will be no major league baseball after Sept. 1, the date set by Secretary of War Baker for the ball players within the draft age to get into essential work. This was decided yesterday at spe- cial meeting pf the National League in this city. Some of the club owners were in favor of continuing play af- ter that date with clubs made up Of players under and above the draft age, but the majority ruled that ma or league baseball of this inferior type would injuTe the game more than It would help it,
 The National League was to nave met here today, but when August Hermann, chairman of the National Commission, called a meeting ot that body at Cleveland for today he also called a meeting of the National League club owners. President Tener, a member of the National Commls- sion, has refused to meet with the commission because of the American Leagues refusal to abide by the de cision of that body in the Scott-Perry case. Most of the Natoinal League club owners were ready to abandon today's meeting of the National League and attend the joint meeting of the two leagues in Cleveland.
 With the leagues and the club own CTS at loggerheads, the baseball sea- son is very likely to end in bad rnuddle, and the whole structure of the national pastime may have to be reconstructed after the war. q There was not a full representation of the National League at the meet ing here, but a majority of the clubs were represented. After the league had passed a resolution deciding that no championship games would De played after Labor Day, Barney Drey- fuss was appointed a committee ot one to attend the meeting with the American League in Cleveland. He is vested with full power to act in re- gard to any readjustment of the schedule.
 There is sure to be a clash between the leagues ocer the worlds series The American League---that is, Pres ident B. B. Johnson---wants to end the season on Aug. 20 and play the series before Sept. 1, the time set by Secretary Baker. Chairman August Hermann of the National Commits sion believes that the clubs should play right up to Sept. 1 before award ing the pennant, and then play the worlds series. He takes this attitude on the assumption that the players on the two winning clubs will have another time extension until the biz series is finished. It is not known tha MT. Hermann has any grounds 10 believing that Provost Marshal Crow der will grant this extra time to tn worlds series contestants.
 The National League club owner are strongly opposed to closing tn league by Aug. 20 because they wan all the clubs to play out their sched ules up to Sept. 2 and get the beneh of the receipts up to that date. It l believed that Dreyfuss at CleVelan will strongly oppose any attempt O the American League to tsart tn worlds series on Aug. 20. It is no unlikely that, if the American Leagu insists on starting the series on Aug 20, some arrangement may be mad whereby al the clubs will share in tn worlds series money. Under a ney arrangement, adopted last winter, tn first four clubs in each league wi share in the receipts, but it may b necessary to declare every club owne in on the division in order to kee peace in the baseball family.
 Those who attended the meetin were President Tener, Harry HemT stead New York; Charles Ebbet e Brooklyn; William Baker, Philade
 phia; Barney Dreyfuss, Pittsburgh and A c. Wise, Boston.
 Major Percy Haughton, former pre- fdent of the Braves, was at the mee
 ing for a few minutes in his new un
 form. He attended merely to b
 good-by to his former fellow maj
 mates. Haughton said he hopes to r
 turn to the presidency of the Brav
 when the war Is over. He expects
 go to France in Q very short time.