New Britain herald., 1921-12-14
LOOKS LEkE WAR
 AGAINSI' MEMOIRS
Ebb9.s Urges National League
 Owners to Act

The National Icngue Of professional
 baseball clubs n,oncd yesterday at
 the Wa!dorf-Astoria for it's annual
 meeting, There wasn't anything Of
 especial import lncc on the program, as far as any one knew, and the mag
 mates figured on going through the
 necessary rites quietly and at a fair
 late of speed and then setting back
 for hit of . visit with one another.
 However, this tame procedure was
 far from being to the taste of Charles
 II, Ebbcts Of FIatbush. president of
 the Robins. Mir. Ebbcts had some
 thing up his sleeve, and at what he considered the proper time he hauled it out and hurled it. II proved to be a neat itte bomb, which exploded immediately upon landing.
 Colonel Ebbets had been doing some thinking along the lines of the comment made the other day by President John A Heydier of the Ma tional league for the high prices paid last week by major league club own. CTS for players from the Pacific Coast league, He agreed with Mr, Heydlcr llIdl lDO IIluNll was FNtfSSI f, fSDft- ially when that too much was coin and it went to clubs of a league which refused the draft privilege to the teams of the two ma jor cTga nizltions. So he proposed, advocated and even urged the advisabi,ity of refusing not only to pay high prices to the non draft leagues for their players, but of declining to buy anybody from them at any price whatever.
 The Brooklyn maenate, in other words, suggested that such minor bodies as declined to submit to the drafting of their players, under the agreement formulated last January and having still six years to run, should be severed entirely from the major leagues as source of income. The fragments of this torpedo struck in each corner of the council cham Der at the Waldorf and galvanized the gathering into intense interest The discussion was general and the proposition met with so much favor that it has been made a special or der for today when the older major league will resume and complete it's annual COgltauOnS
 Receives Spontaneous Backing
 The spontaneous backing which sprang up within his own league for his plan was highly pleasing to Squire Ebbets, who announced that he would present the suggestion for debate and possible adoption at the joint meet | ing of the big leagues to be held to- morrow at the Com m O6 ore
 There were present at yesterdays of the directors; Messra. Baker, Brea- don, Ebbets and Herman. the fol- lowing representatives of the eight teams of the circuit; Boston, George Grant; Brooklyn, Charles II. Ebbets, Jr., stephen Mckeever; New York, 1 Charles A. Stoneham, John J. Nc | Graw. Judge Francis x. McQuade; | Barney Dreyfuss; Cincin- ! nati, Garry Herman, Louis Widrig; [ Chicago, William Neeck; St Louis, | Samuel Breadon, J. C. Jones, Branch | Hickey.
 After the meeting had been called to order by President Heyd,er and | the usual reports Of committees lis- tened to and adopted, the following | were elected to serve as directors for the ensuing year: Barney Dreyfuss, ] William Neeck, Charles A. Stoneham and George Grant. Then Mr. Heyd- Ter presented his annual report in which, after touching in a congratu- atory vein upon the great success en- ioyed by the league in the season of 921, he said that the paid attend lnce had fallen but little short of that registered in 1920. the banner year, | md that only certain postponements Of important games prevented a new | record from being established. In | fact, four of the teams showed q gain 1 over the preceding year. These were New York, Pittsburgh, Boston and St, Louis