Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-13
LIVELY WEEK IS
PROMISEDFO
MAJOR BASEBALL
League Magnates From All
Over Country to Try For
Cooperative System

Plans have been completed for the
most important series of baseball
meetings in New York this week since
the firm establishment of organized
| baseball achieved with the signing
of the national agreement. Accord
ing to the present arrangements.
both major and minor leagues will
be represented in a series of confer
ences, which will be attended by ev-
cry prominent club owner and league
official in the United States.
These conferences, which are ex-
| pected to result in number of rad
ical changes in the conduct of the
game, will continue throughout the
entire week. the schedule. subject to
| alteration, being as follows:
Monday-Informal gathering for
! exchange of ideas.
Tuesday, a. M.-Meeting of new In
ternational Leagues p. M.-Meeting
of National Association Professional
Leagues.
Wednesday. P. M.-Meeting of Ma
tional League!
Thursday. a. M-Meeting of Amer
lean League. p M.-Joint meeting
of National and American Leagues.
Friday and aturday-Continuat
of joint National and American
Leagues meeting and consultations
with National Association of Profess
sional Baseball Leagues.
The schedule of the National
League will be considered at the
meeting. President 7 Heydler an
nounced.
Minor leagues will be asked to
place their grievances in proper form
by an authoritative committee before
a joint meeting of the major leagues.
Mr.. Heydler stated. He said that
several of the requests already made
by minor league committees and by
individual minor leagues are in con-
| filct. Something should be done to
aid these leagues. he said, but per-
| sonally he is in favor of retaining the
draft, optional agreements and the
right of the major league clubs to
sign any player who is free agent.
"If We gave in to the minor
leagues on all these points" Mr..
Heydler declared, where would the
| big league clubs procure and develop
their talent?"
Mr.. Heydler conferred with Major
Branch Hickey. president of the st.
Louis Nationals. in regard to the
managerial situation of that club.
Major Hickey received his discharge
| from the Army Saturday.
Minor league representation on the
National Baseball Commission, abo-
| lition OF the optional agreement and
modification of the draft will be chief
! demands of western minor leagues.
The party includes A. r. Tearney,
president of the Three-I League and
chairman of a minor league commit
tee that presented suggested changes
| in the draft to the National Com
mission; Thomas j. Hickey. president
of the American Association; Edward
Hanlon, of Sioux City, Iowa, acting
president of the Western League. and
John NJ. Powers, president of the Los
Angeles, Cal, club, who will repre-
sent the Pacific Coast League.
Fred Mitchell. president and man
ager of the Chicago Nationals, and
William Veeck, vice-president of the
club, also departed for New York.
Mitchell plans to sign a coach to sue
ceed Otto Knabe. who asked TO be
released so that his business part
| ner, kid" Gleason, could manage the
Chicago Americans.
There was an unconfirmed report
that Clarence Rowland. former man
ager of the White Sox, was being
! considered to succeed Christy Ma
thewson as manager OF the Cincin-
rati Nationals. Rowland plans to
confer with August Hermann. presi-
dent of the Cincinnati club. in New
| York, but he declined to say whether
= the management had been, offered
| him. Rowland denied, however, that
he contemplated the purchase of the
| Indianapolis club of the American
Association. -
President Ban Johnson, OF the
American League. left for shing-
ton to-day to discuss with Army Of
fcials the question of securing the
early discharge of baseball players
still in the Army FromyWashington
| President Johnson will go to New
York to attend the Joint meeting Of
the major leagues Thursday. -.l