The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13
STOVE.LEAGUE
|N.fOR BIG
SEASON
NATIONAL LEAGUE MEETING TO-
MORROW; AMERICAN AND
MINOR LEAGUES SOON

Stove league fire is going to crackle
merrily this winter, from all indica-
lions. The high price of coal will
not keep it burning low
The open season for magnates and
their doings has never approached
with promises of more big doings'
than the season of 1919-1920, and
unless all signs fail there is going to
be an abundance of fireworks
more than enough to satisfy.
The National league opens its an
nual winter chinwag here tomorrow
and the American league will be in
for a stormy session when Ban
Johnson calls his "bolshevik" board
of directors and their brother mag
mates together.
These meetings, the various meet
ings of minor leagues and the an
nual meeting of the national COM
mission, which comes in January,
hold forth plenty in the way of
action"
The National league, thanks to
the capable Guidance of President
John Heydler, is standing on solid
terra firma once again. The ruling
majority of the magnates are work
ing together in perfect harmony and
they have their fences solidly rebuilt
after a number of years of internal
strife. The league has already gone
on record as favoring a change in
the makeup of the national com
mission, and while this directly af-
fects Garry Hermann, one of the
veriest veterans among the N. l..
magnates, harmony still has the
upper hand.
The national, however, is not so
certain to be patient with the minor
leagues since the little fellows broke
away. Now that the minors want to
come back into the fold under GER
tain working conditions" the staid
magnates of the mother league may
advance a few opinions that will
sound stormy t o the minors. Yet
the sense of the club owners of the
Heydler circuit as a whole leans to-
ward peaceful operations and def
mite steps to put the pastime back
on the substantial and profitable
level it occupied in 1912 and 1913,
when baseball reached the crux of
its career as a paying proposition.
In the American league things are
in a turmoil generally. Ban John
son is being harried by the owners
of the Chicago, New York and Bos-
ton clubs-the three richest clubs
in his league-because of his al
legedly tyrannical actions in at
tempt to rule the league with des-
potic methods. Big Ban has, for a
fact, proved himself a very capable
tyrant, if tyrant he is, for nearly 20
years. He still has five clubs on
his side of the fence and he may
fight his 'unruly' board of di-
recters to a bitter finish. The
blowup which came as a result of
the Carl Mays case and Bans own
admission that he holds stock in the
Cleveland ball club, however, in a
way evens things up between the
two factions.
Any number of things may hap
pen when the American leaguers
get together. Johnson, though he
has a supposedly ironclad contract
with something like 20 years yet to
run, may decide to get out from
under. He has plenty of this worlds
goods and could get along without
a job as the American league presi-
dent. Certain it is hat the "out-
law" mags will make an attempt to
kick him out, but those who size
up the situation from the standpoint
of a Teller peering owe the fence
are agreed that this will be no in
fantile tack. But, oh, boy, there
will be fireworks.
On the heels OF the big league
meetings will come the big act of
the winter baseball season-the re-
vamping of the national commission.
Choosing a successor to Garry Herr
mann will be no easy task from
present Indications. because of a
variance of opinion in the two big
leagues. Before the veteran Gin
cinnati baseball mar is ready to step
down from the position the mags
will indulge in enough
ton to reach from here around the
globe and back again. Hermann is
willing to step out when his time
comes, but, though his own brother
club owners-a majority of them at
loocf-aro in favor of d~ethrOninP