New Britain herald., 1918-02-14


sent conditions l1ll1ot
permit. Hickey pointed out that
sHornsby's demand for a salary of
,$S,4O0 this year is due to the ad-
'vcrtisem ent he got by reason of
-Weeghman's effort to buy him and
the players dissatisfaction when the
deal was not contaminated.
Walter Craighead, secretary of the
Cabs, who represented the, Chicago
club in the absence of President
Weeghman, strongly denied that the
Cubs ever had an idea of injuring
St Louis with intentional publicity.
He disclaimed the charge that the
Cubs were responsible for the pub
,licity given Weeghman's efforts to
buy Hornsby. Hickey, however, pro-
duced several letters showing that
Weeghman went to extreme in his
attempts to buy Hornsby and work
up publicity to that effect.
EEbbets Withdraws Amendment
After adverse criticism President
Ebbets withdrew his proposed amend
ment to the constitution by which tie
or POSTPONED games could be played
off at any time in the season instead
of waiting for the second swing OF
teams around the circuit. The league
also went on record as opposing
double headers except when they
were absolutely necessary.
After this expression of the league
Fbbets proposed an amendment to
the constitution prohibiting double
headers in the future and providing
that postponed games be cancelled if
no single open dates were available
to play them off Such a rule was
in effect in the early days of the
National league The amendment
was voted down.
Branch Hickey succeeded in put
ting through a measure for the re-
peal of the withdrawals waiver
rule This rule had been in effect
in the National league since 1912. 1t
merely means the return to the
waiver rule in effect prior to 1912,
a, rule which never was changed in
the American league. A club may
now ask for waivers on a player, and
if another club or clubs decline to
waive the club asking for the waiver
has the privilege to recall it.
Hickey however, was defeated in
his attempt to bring about a mini
mum waiver price of $1,000 for play
ers who were free agents when signed
or obtained from minor leagues. The
sentiment was that this was too
much to pay for an inexperienced
PLAYER transferred from one CLUB TO
the other The readable waiver now
permits clubs to dicker with each
other over the price to be paid waived
players.
War Tax Situation Discussed.
The war tax situation was discussed
at length, but the league took no
positive action on the subject coma
mittee consisting of Dreyfus, Hemp
Tod to
confer with the American league
either today or tomorrow to bring
about a uniform system of prices.
This committee was given full power
to act for the National league
The sentiment is in favor of a scale
of prices which will do away with
the changes of pennies. Ebbets had
at the meeting. but he now admits
IL will be q hard matter to make
change for the general admission of
So cents, even with the aid of the
changing machines. The clubs prob
ably will adopt price scale of 80,
S. and IS cents. without any pro-
vision being made as to what will be
done with the extra three cents col
lected on the quarter admission and
the extra two cents collected on the
General seVenty-five cent admissions.
The league reaffirmed its vote by
which President Tener was granted
full power to settle Federal league