The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-09
Eleven Clubs Organize Own
League for Next Season,
THE FIVE" REFUSE TO JOIN
VIII Be TweIye-Team Circuit
Is Plan Now.
Much of Future Plans Depend
on Stand by Minors.

Chicago, Nov. 9.-John A. Heydler,
president, secretary and treasurer of
the new National league, and Hank
O'Day, well known to the public for
years as an umpire and manager. fflis
morning conferred over the subject
OF umpires for the new baseball league
word was waited today from Judge
kenesaw Mountain Lands, Judge of
the district court of the United states
from Chicago, as to whether he would
accept the position of chairman of the
board of control for a term of seven
years at an annual salary of $4,000.
The judge had the matter under adj
vlsement and said he would make
known his decision within a few DAYS.
Case Goes to Minors.
Chicago today was no longer the
rendezvous of leading minor and ma
Jor league baseball officials President
Ban johnson and several of his friends
left last night for Kansas City, where
the meeting of the National Associa->
fn OF Minor leagues was scheduled
for today. The city was bereft of
other baseball men, who began leaving
for kansas City as soon as the an
nouncement of the new league was
made yesterday.
With the appointment of Judge Lam
dis of Chicago as chairman of the tri-
bunal which will govern the game,
pending his acceptance the organiza-
ton of the new league included reaf-
firmation of acceptance of the Lasker
plan of baseball reorganization with
Islight notifications, chief of which
was that the minor leagues should be
requested and permitted to choose an
associate member of the board of con-
troll of their own selection.
In deciding all baseball matters the
votes in the New National league"
will be cast by clubs and not by
leagues, under the new plan, it was
ANNOUNCED.
The league comprises at present the
Boston Braves, the Boston Red Sox,
Brooklyn, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati,
Louis. These are the clubs of the
now defunct National league. and the
Chicago, New York and Boston clubs
| of the American league, whose repre-
Chicago October IS, favoring a reor-
ganization of baseball, basing their
resolutions upon the plan proposed by
A. d. Lasker of the Chicago National
| league club, calling for a civilian tri-
bunal.
'sThe Five" Stand Pat.
The five remaining clubs OF the
American league were Detroit. Phila-
delphia, Cleveland, Washington and
| st. Louis. President Ban johnson of
the league, fostering its civilian tri-
bunaI, announced before he left Chi
five to proceed with the organization
| of a new American league. The new
National league gives New York, Chi
cage and Boston two clubs. in the same
| league. Brooklyn also was included,
| giving New York thre representatives.
| Besides the other members Cincinnati,
| Pittsburgh, st. Louis (NationaD and
| Philadelphia (National), the twelfth
member which it was announced is to
be the first of the five dissenting
los oil atxyi11
l memb ership. The proviso was fur
Their made that failing to receive such
application within a reasonable time,
| a twelfth club is to be established by
| the new National league and it is not
| the intention that minor league terri
tory be invaded"
| Contributory causes of the forma-
| ton of the new league which had its
| inception in the baseball scandal, were
| the lack of a chairman for the ma
tional commission for many months,
and the enmity of the three American
| league clubs for Ban johnson. These
| three. Chicago, New York and Bos-
! ton, joining in the plan, have opposed
johnson in league affairs for years
and nearly disrupted the league last
year.. They charged Johnson with be-
! ing the car of baseball, while clubs
| friendly to him counter-charged that
the proposed anization was mere
| ly a plan to depose johnson.
| Babe Ruth for New League.
| New York, Nov. '9.-Determined to
1 take Babe" Ruth, home run king.
| into the new baseball league formed
| yesterday in Chicago regardless of
| claims made by leaders of the loyal
five that he belongs to the American
| league under former contract, was ex-
pressed today by Vice President Hus-
| ton of the Yankees. s'They won't get
anything like as close, to Ruth as the
crown prince got to Paris" he said.