New-York tribune., 1921-12-13

4He messenger mingled with Chei
throng Of miscalled bush leaguers and
came back to the information desk. He
was perspiring.
"Gee!" he gasped, "I'm goin' around
in circles worse than Brocco. They
amt bush leaguers They're tryin' to
settle Germany's bills. / didn't hear
'em mention anything under million"
That is just the way it was at the
Commodore yesterday when the New
international League held it's annual
meeting. The magnates of that circuit
their appetites for gold whetted by the
| glittering things that happened last
week at Buffalo, were there with chat
tells to sell to the majors at figures
that would have made King Midas go
out and argue against an eight-cent
fare.
y If the National and American
leaguers, who meet respectively at the
Waldorf and Commodore to-day and to-
morrow in annual sessions, can talk in
leaguers yesterday the baseball re-
porters will have to get wider pads and
equip thmeselves with shock absorbers
If John w. Gates had wandered into
the Commodore yesterday he would
have staggered out adorned with
blush of shame.
Minor Session Has Major Earmarks
Yesterdays meeting of the new In
golden majorleague setting that en-
blazoned the convention Of the Ma
tional Association at Buffalo last
week. The meeting itself was for the
new International, but in its tide
rips and back-wash eddes were lurk-
ing the giants of the game, angling
with bait of gold for certain players
with whom they hope to bolster up
tagging machines that are expected to
make the twin fights in the majors a
real battle next year.
Those students of the game who
looked for action on the part Of the
international League yesterday that
would open the way to q restoration
OF the draft in some form were dis
appointed, although the subject was
brought up at the morning session and
resulted in q heated debate. The row
assumed such warmth that after it was
settled the representatives Of the eight
international League clubs were pledged
to secrecy. One we'll authenticated re-
port had it that resolution was put
through providing for fine of 5000
to be assessed against any delegate to
the meeting who divulged what had oc-
Cured.
While big league magnates and their
agents thronged the corridors of the
Commodore with myriad propositions
for international players bubbling Sc
ductively from their lips, the real
rulers Of this important near-maior
circuit were up stairs, battling about
the draft.
The so-called "restoration element"
was led by Walter f. Hanpood anJ
George r. Stallings, part owners of the
Rochester club The meeting was Of
the executive variety, like sessions of
grand jury, and members of the press
were barred.
From excellent authority it was
learned afterward that some steam
heated words passed over the green
balze table round which the Interna-
tional leaguers passed their troubles.
The ringing words of Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Lands, baseball's high COM
missioner, spoken at the famous din
ner at Buffalo, are said to have been
quoted in an effort to make the anti
draft division see that it's views were
not at all compatible with the ultimate
welfare of baseball.
Dunn Snatches Cudgels Against Draft
The draft opposition was led by Jack
Dunn, president of the Baltimore
Orioles, champions of the International
League, who has great deal of highly
desirable talent for which the majors
are calling and for which Jack is ask
ing lurid prices. Dunn, backed by Ger
tain Pacific Coast magnates who have
found it highly profitable to steer clear
Of the circumscribed limits established
by the draft, was the dominating fig
ure at yesterdays DEBATE.