Evening star., 1918-02-28
A. A. OWNERS SCRAP
|. OVER '18 SCHEDULE
Meet Today to Raise Prices.
Anti-Secession Agreement
May Be Adopted.
By DENMAN THOMPSON.

A merry scrap Is IN prospect HI MIL
waukee today. whom the club owners
Of the American Association meet to
adopt a schedule, fix admission rates to
take care Of the government war tax
and make other arrangements for the
opening Of the championship campaign.
The question of playing dates prom
ises to produce an unprecedented
amount of oratory. as no fewer than
a dozen lists of games will be submit
ted, each club owner, on instructions
from President Hickey, having drawn
up schedu1e-some of them two-and
Hickey himself also will offer one. 1t
lis regarded as assured that the season
will consist of only 40 games and that
it will not open until May 1, as all the
magnates suffered financially because
lof unfavorable weather last spring,
when the start was made early IN April,
and have been converted to the late
topening idea, but with each owner hav-
ing drafted a schedule, taking care Of
his own team in the matter of choice
dates and minimum mileage, some heat
ed debates may be expected before
list acceptable to all is adopted.
President Hickey is authority for the
statement that prices undoubtedly
will be raised in order to eliminate the
handling of pennies in collecting the
war tax. the scale likely to be adopt
ed being 80 cents for bleacher seats.
60 cents for the grandstand, IS cents
for reserved grandstand seats and
$1.10 for box seats. 1t may be decided
to turn the extra revenue over to the
Red Cross or the Clark Griffith ball and
bat fund. although it is probable the
owners will be permitted to do as they
please with the surplus pennies.
To prevent recurrence of the attempt
made at the Louisville meeting last
fall of certain clubs to withdraw and
merge with International League
teams in the formation of a new cir
cult, a civil war" agreement designed
withdrawing without the unanimous
consent of the league will come up for
final action today. The pact is to be
operative for fifty years.
Owner McGil1 of Indianapolis is ex-
pected to announce his selection for
manager to succeed Jack Hendrlcks'
now pilot of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Larry Lajoie and George Stoval1 are
reported as being under consideration
for the job.
President Weeghman of the Cubs, as
a result of the panning he got at the
league meeting in New York recently,
has adopted different methods in his
efforts to win the pennant by garner
ing all the stars in sight, but has by
no means ended his activities. Accord
ing to dispatches from Chicago, Man
ager Mitchell has telegraphed Presi-
dent Hickey and Manager Hendricks
of the St. Louis team to meet him in
Chicago today to consider several
prospective trades. No intimation of
the players involved has been forth
coming from headquarters of the Cubs.
but from other sources it is learned
that Rogers Hornsby, the sensational
shortstop of the Cardinals. whom
Weeghman is accused of having made
dissatisfied by his newspaper trading
tactics. still is Weeghman's objective.
Weeghman is reported as willing to
hand over shortstop Workman. Out,
fielder F1ack Catcher Elliott and
Pitchers Hendrix and Carter in addi-
tion to $4,000 for Hornsby. Hickey is
| said to be inclined now to consider the
proposition, as Hornsby is firm in his
| demand for $4,000 salary. which the
Cardinals cannot afford to pay.
Friendly relations between Philadel-
phia's major league representatives,
the Athletics and Phillies, will be re-
| sumed this spring when the teams
| will play an exhibition game Saturday,
April 13, for the benefit of the family
! of the late William G. Weart. until
his death. in December, secretary
| sociation of America. The last meeting
between the teams was in the spring
Of 1915 when the series ended in tie,
each team winning three games.
Followers of racing at the tracks in
the vicinity of New York city may
have only three days of sport each
week this season. The stewards of the
| jockey club who meet shortly to as
sign dates for the year said to
feel that, with the war on, it would
not be fitting to have six days of rae
| ing on the metropolitan courses. They
favor just enough racing to perpetuate
the stakes. keep the sport alive and
| maintain a strong incentive for the
breeding of the horse.