Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-17
BY Associated Press

and minar baseball leagues. parties
to the national agreement, the foun-
dation of the professional end of the
national sport, broke relations after
stormy meeting here last night.
! The two great combinations will, in
the future, be bound together by
an elastic agreement which will per-
nit them to operate with compara-
tive independence.
No prediction was made as to what
effect last nights proceedings will
have on the professional game and
the players, but leaders of both
leagues professed to be highly salts
fled with the sensational turn affairs
had taken when temporary arrange
ments were completed shortly be-
fore midnight.
Under the tentative agreement
which was entered into last night,
the major and minor leagues are to
respect the contractual, territorial
and reservation rights of each other,
with the proviso that no minor
league club shall claim the right to
more players at any time than the
maximum roster allowed, to clubs in
thse major leagues. During the play
ing season, this would eqaul twenty
one players.
L 4S ulSll, OptlOlil anu IeSeTNd-
ton agreements of the National
agreement, entered into in 1903, are
things of the past and the only way
in which the major league clubs can
obtain players from the minors will
be by direct purchase.
Garry Hermann, chairman of the
National Commission, in announcing
the abrogation of the existing pact,
said:
The National Association of Pro-
fessional Baseball Leagues request
ed changes which we could not and
would not grant, and when they
stated that they would be the hap
niest men in the world If they were
permitted to go their own way and
attend to their own business ar
rangements in the future, we thought
best to permit them to do as they
desired" -
A new working agreement between
the major leagues and the National
Association of Minor Leagues is to
be drawn up as soon as possible and
pending the completion of this new
arrangement the National agreement
will reamin in force.
The interests of the major leagues
in the framing of this new working
Arrangement have been entrusted to
the National Commission and the
minor league organization has ap-
pointed a committee of seven to rep
resent it in the same manner This
committee was named last night as
follows:
John +. Powers Los Angeles; A.
7. Trimme, Milwaukee; E. j. Han
lon, Sioux Cityj Walter Morris, Fort
Worth, Texas; Lieutenant Dave l..
E1llfZ Nnur YnrL- NJ II
tie Rock, Ark, and Secretary j. Ii.
Farrell, Auburn, N. Y.
The National Association will
hold another meeting here to-mor-
row at noon, preceded by short ses-
sion at which the committee of seven
VIII formulate plans for, the future
conduct of the affairs of the associa-
ton. All of the minor league repre-
sentatives declared they were salts
fled with the outcome of the nights
conferences.
After the meeting John A. Heyd-
Ter, president of the National League,
announced that he had appointed
President Baker of the Philadelphia,
Club, and Vice-President Veeeh, of
the Chicago Club, the National
League Committee of two to aid in
the selection. of a new chairman of
the National Commission.
The Baseball Writer'S Association
last night elected these officers for
the coming year: President, Irving
e. Sanborn, Chicago; vice-president,
Robert Maxwell, Philadelphia; sec
retary-treasurer Joseph McCready,
Philadelphia. The retiring president,
Joseph Jackson. was elected to the
board of directors.
No radical or immediate change
in the personnel of the National
Commission appears likely as a re-
suit of the joint meeting of the Ma
tional and American Baseball
Leagues yesterday. The sixteen club
owners of the two major leagues
went on record as favoring the re-
tention of the three-man commits
sion, but provision was made for
the selection of successor to Chair
| man Garry Hermann.
1t was decided that the presdenth
of the two organizations should each
select two members of their respec-
tive leagues to act as a joint COM
| mittee to select some person, out
side of baseball, to act as the third
! man on the commission, providing
I such selected nominee is satisfac-