New-York tribune., 1920-10-14

iS aSliOii IIiat CIle nnaSnaCcS take III
troll of professional baseball will ha,
OF baseball that concerns the magma
A joint meeting Of the club owners
OF both leagues has been called for
Cnlcago next Monday. The announced
purpose is to arrange for a new con-
rolling body in baseball TO supplant
the National Commission. 1t has been
given out by friends Of Ban Johnson,
s the power behind the National Com
: mission, that Johnson will fight this
proposal to the end.
The call for the meeting is backed
by William Veeck, president of the
+ Chicago Cubs; Charles Comiskey
owner of the White Sox; Barney Drey-
T Ius, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates;
John A. Heydler, president of the Ma
tional League, and Charles A. Stone
ham, president of the New York
Giants.
New National Agreement
There is no doubt that there will be
: lined up with these Colonels Rupert
Grant, of the Braves, and Harry H.
Frazee, of the Boston Red Sox. The
Inference is given out that there will
be new national agreement and
! new controlling body to legislate and
to regulate all baseball. Nothing has
been put in a tangible form as yet.
{ While much is promised for the
! meeting, one magnate who should know
E has declared that nothing at all would
be done. This gentleman declared that
most of the club owners and baseball
!. officials were of the opinion that the
rottenness of the worlds series of
1919 would be forgotten by next sea-
! son. He said that the magnates did
: not realize what shock the revela-
tions made by the Chicago grand jury
had been to the lovers of baseball.
: statements that will mean nothing will
be issued.
1t will remain to be seen whether or
not the baseball fans will stand for
: the old order and the old magnates
who were blind to the corruption of
baseball. Indications are that they
will not and that they will resent the
notion that they will accept the old
misrulc. Ban Johnsons friends claim
for him that he will not be driven
from baseball and that he Yields
enough power over certain clubs to
Keep himself in power and to keep the
old regime going.
Wilbert Robinson and Iris Speaker,
two OF the squarest managers in the
game and two men of character. did
the game great service in the worlds
series that just ended 1t was a clean
series, well played and without bicker-
ing. 1t probably helped the fans to
forget to some extent the rottenness
of the series of 1919. I 1T all the good
work of the clean players and the man
ayers of character will go for nothing
II the naGnates after their winter
vaporngs try to start the season of
1921 under the old conditions.
. 1t is pretty well established that the
nj Of
to put it mildly, blind and incompetent.
Robbie Under Reserve Contract
Gossip is giving the Yankees a new
manager again. The Yanka are voted
new manager every year. This is a
sign that the baseball season is actu-
ally over. Wilbert Robinson, of the
Dodgers, is named again He denies
that he has even been asked to take
the place, pointing to the fact that he
Is under reserve contract just like
any baseball player.
Miller Huggins, the present manager
OF the Yankees, is not under contract
Tor next year as yet. The Yankees
may nave a new manager, but nothing
has been decided on that point as yet.
Charles H. Ebbets. the good old
squire of Flatbush, announced last
nlght that those who held tickets for
the eighth game Of the worlds series
scheduled to be played at Brooklyn
would be reimbursed with all possible
dispatch. The squire requests that
holders Of such tickets mail them to
kbbets Field with a addressed
stamped envelope. He announces that
the money will then be returned by
check as cheerfully as possible under
the distressing circumstances.
Uncle Wilbert Robinson, manager
OF the defeated Dodgers, recovered his
cheerfulness yesterday. He will leave
very shortly for Baltimore. where he
and Joe Kelley will hold convention
or Old Orioles. Immediately after the
convention adjourns it will be a hard
winter for the ducks in that vicinity.