Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-11
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ers and others who have participated
in sessions. shall remain away.
Major league leaders pointed out
that il lawyers are excluded so that no
technical questions could be raised.
the threatened war could be quickly
settled.
The agreement to make a desperate
lastminute attempt to avert a base
ball war came at meeting OF the di-
rectors Of the American League today
and was one of the results of confer
| ences among owners of the rival ma
jor leagues factions. The peace news
was announced in dramatic fashion in
the middle of an address Garry Herr
mann. owner Of the Cincinnati Ma
| tionals. was delivering to the minor
| league meeting.
Mr.. Hermann. former chairman of
| the National Commission, was inter-
| rupted by a messenger who handed
7 him note which he opened and slow
.ly read. Then he announced that the
been agreed upon for Friday.
President Johnson Of the American
League issued the following state
ment:
The American League has been
standing for the principle that a re-
! organization Of baseball should be
worked out primarily by n committee
composed of representatives from the
National League, the American League
and the National Association. 1t seems
now such committee is to be created
| to consider and work out a plan for
! reorganization. There have been GER
tain points of difference between the
| two major leagues which thus far
! they have not been able to agree upon.
1t has now been arranged that an in
formal conference OF major league
club owners shall take place. this con-
ference to be limited to club owners
and t. be purely informal. The pur-
pose of the conference is to see if the
| two major leagues may not. in some
way, iron out their points of differ
ence. 1t is an attempt to see if there
can be found some satisfactory basis
on which they can harmonic those
differences"
| While the National League club
owners issued no formal statement,
most of them take the stand that
what already has been done in the
advancement of baseball re-organ-
| ization can not be changed at the
conference Friday. This was taken
to mean that the selection of Federal
Judge Lands of Chicago as chairman
of the new board Of control at a
salary of $4,000 a year, must be ac-
| cepted by the American League club
owners.
The National Leaguers frankly ad-
init they do not want a 12-club
league unless it is forced upon them
| to organize it and that it would be a
joke" Mr.. Hermann stated that II
| would be ridiculous to form a league
with two clubs in three cities. Be-
| fore leaving for Chicago tonight he
declared he was confident the situa-
ton could be adjusted to the salts
faction of all.
After Mr.. Hermann addressed the
minor leaguers. Charles Ebbetts of
the Brooklyn club. and Barney Drey-
fuss, of the Pittsburgh Nationals
were called upon to talk and the key
AAO~N ~ eAAA 0RCCCHCS was mar
mony. Hermann said the eleven
clubs he represented would be willing
to meet with committee Of any size
from the minors for recognising
baseball control. President Sexton
of the National Association of Minor
Leagues will appoint the minor
league committee tomorrow.
After hearing the pleas of the Ma.
tional League Representatives, the
minor leaguers went into executive
session and voiced their suspicion of
the so-called affection expressed for
them by the two forces involved in
the major leagues fight. They warn
ed their associates from which a
committee will be appointed to con-
fer with the major leagues, not to
cede any of the rights of the minors
In working out a Reorganization
plan. They took the position that
while they might act as bearers Of
the olive branch in the threatened
baseball war they would not go so
far as to scorch their own wings.
The minor leaguers recommended
that President Sexton be placed on a
full salary to devote his full time to
league affairs. The resolution car
ried proposal for salaries Of $4,000