Arizona republican., 1920-11-11
WAR GL OUDS IN
 ttijGG},} tEAGuES VANISH IN VIEW IF PEACE NEET I
Warning Owners Agree to "Get Together" Friday in Effort to Settle Their Diff ferences
rRepubIIcan A. p. Leased WIrel

N 1 KANSAS CITY, Mo, Nov. 10.-War
 clouds tonight are vanishing from the
 major league baseball horizon with
 indications favoring an amicable set
 tlement when the belligerent major
 leaguers meet in joint session in Chi
 cago Friday to effect a peace pact. The National Association of Minor
 Leagues, after listening to both sides in the controversy voted to help avoid a war by agreeing to appoint com
 mittee to act with the major leagues in
 devising a plan for baseball reorgan-
 ization.
 The sixteen club owners of the two
 warning leagues agreed to meet in the same room in Chicago and attempt to
 adjust their differences without the
 aid of any outsiders. It was agreed
 that only the club owners shall attend
 this meeting and that both President
 Johnson of the American league and
 President FIeydler of the National Ieague and others who have partlcl-
 nated in recent sessions shall remain
 away. Major leaders pointed out that
 if lawyers are excluded from the meet
 ing SO that no technical questions
 could be raised. the threatened war
 could be quickly settled
 Peace News Unexpected The agreement to make a last minute \ attempt to avert baseball war was
 reached at a meeting of the onectors
 of the American league at noon today
 ana was one of the results of conIer- . ences between the owners Of the rival major league factions. The peace ' news was announced in dramatic
 fa shion in the middle of an address 2 Carry Hermann, owner of the Cln- . cinnati Nationals, was delivering to the u minor league meeting , MT. Hermann, former chairman oi the national commission, was inter , runted by a messenger who handed hiIu ! note which he opened and slowly . read. Then he made the announce
 ment that the joint conference of the club owners had been agreed upon foi . Friday.
 President Ban Johnson of the Amer 2 ican league, in commenting on the 2 joint meeting, issued the foilowlns . statement:
 I Ban Johnson's Statement ssThe American league has peei standing for the principle that 2 re :, organization of baseball should b' worked out primarily by co1nmltte'
 connposed of representatives from tn 4 National league, the American leagu = and the National association seems now that such a committee
 to he created to consider and Wo1S ou = plan for reorganization. There na : ,S been certain points of difference pc '. tween the two major leagues whlcl lS tbrs far they have not been able t v agree upon. It has now been arrange
 that an informal conference Of maJe
 league club owners shall take place 70 this conference to be limited to clu .. owners and to be purely informal Tn 70 nl1rpose of the conference IS to see at the two major leagues may not m som ~ . way iron out their points Of difference "a It is an attempt to see II there ca U be found some satisfactory oasls es which they can harmonize thos na differences.
 o ro While the National league clu SS owners issued no formal statemeI as most of them take the stand tns ' what already has been done in tn advancement of baseball reorganlzs s .i ton canont be changed at the COT a9.o ao ference Friday. This was taken LIS mean that the selection of Feder' ce Judge Landis of Chicago as chan IT. man of the new board of control nm a salary of $5o,0OO a year must ief accented by the American league GU li- Oppose 12-cIub League Tor The National leaguers frankly a' e. init they do not want 12-clup leag'
 unless it is forced upon them
 organize it and that it would be
 joke" Mir Hermann made stat ment that it would be rediculous form a league with two clubs in thr cities. Before leaving for Chicago t night he declared that he was col {. fident the situation could be adJust' N to the satisfaction of all.
 M After Mir. Herrmann's addre: Charles Ebbets of the Brooklyn ell
 and Barney Dreyfuss of the Pittsbu . A Nationals were called upon, and t keynote of all three speeches W I'll harmony. Mir. Hermann said t SO Il clubs which he represented wou
 be willing to meet with a commit dly of any size from the minors for r ard organizing the control of baseba re- President Sexton of the National A ea- sociation of Minor Leagues, will a ac- point the minor league committee di morrow.
 for Suspect Motives of Majors mn After listening to the pleas of ,nai National league representatives, ,ra minor leaguers went into executi ved session and voiced their suspicion
 the professed affection express for them by the two forces involv ;S+o III the IndJOr league Splll- III .is9 warned their associates, from whi . os a committee will be appointed ,r confer with the major leagues, not cede any of the rights of the min saPa in working out a reorganization pl Saio @ The minor leaguers took the posit! ~ that while they might act as bear tI of the olive branch, they would IIe go so far as to scorch their O orce wings.
 'nss The minor Ieaguers recommend orce that President Sexton be placed or oul- full salary and to devote his full ii
 to league affairs. The resolut Orl- carried a proposal for salaries on $5.000 each for the president and S y or retary of the organization, but sl man gestions were made for an increase into $7,500 or $10,000 a year. The propC
 was referred to a committee for ,tual cision tomorrow. The establishm and of a central headquarters for the vent sociation was recommended.
 Joining in the crusade aga with gambling in baseball, the mi 'avel leaguers unanimously adopted a re alist lution urging the passage in ev spe- state legislature of a bill dcsig
 to stamp out the evil.