The New York herald., 1921-01-12
Owners Confer With Repre-
sentatives of Braves and
Pirates at Chicago.
DON'T WANT MARANVILLE
McGraw and StOneham Are
Picked Up at Sea Returning
From Havana.
By WILLIAM b. HANNA.

Special Despatch to The NEW ioAk fihhAAp'
CHICAGO. Jan. l1.--Judge X. NJ. Lam
dis, basebalrs new commissioner was
able to join in the councils Of the major
leagues To-Day. though he is etill In the
doctors care. He was present for
short time while the drafting committees
of the major and minor leagues were
winding up a long session and while
progress was being made toward affect
b.ing relationship which will bring all
the leagues together under an agree
,nent
When the minor representatives LEFT
N'thc major eaguers shortly after noon
they were in favor OF a national agree
Hfment with the latter which should last
during the term of Judge Lands as COM
~,onissioner, and they went to the meeting
of their own organization to report in
favor of signing the agreement To-
morrow they will be present at the joint
meeting of the major leagues. and 1t is
.Sexpected that there they will ratify the
agreement
-, The principal terms of the major
minor agreement are the same as those
r submitted in New York last month. The
drafting prices are the same as those
suggested then, $1,000 for class AA
player and with a graded scale for the
lower leagues. and those leagues which
, do not want draft need not have one.
II looked. tonight as If the different
.-parties would get together tomorrow on
that basis
There were droves OF baseball men
about the hotel all day and various con-
ferences between managers seeking TO
make a trade. but there was little or
actual accomplishment in any direction
However. several clubs are slowly getting
70 NJ considerable
portance.
New Workers. Arrive.
Col Rupert. Miller Higgins and Bib
Conners of the Yankee encourage ar
rived this morning. Higgins is not
through bargaining in players. He and
-another American League blgwig have
hen on by which Higgins expects to
land another outfielder who can hit and
field and run To acquire him Higgins
probably will have to part with one of
his present outfielders who. lest some
Gotham fan get uneasy. won't be Ruth.
Charles Stoneham and John McGraw
of the Giants arrived this morning. COM
pleting an eventful trip from Cuba, and
-; the patriarchial Charley Ebbets
marched in from darkest Brooklyn.
Messrs. Stoneham and McGraw regaled
their friends with the moist and excit-
ing. II not thrilling. details of a sea-
plane flight from Havana in which they
did some taxi-ing on the surface of the
sea after the plane had been forced to
descend on account of a defective pipe
and in which they were picked up by
a coast patrol boat and brought in to
Key West.
They intended flying TO Jacksonville
and making record trip of forty-eight
hours from Havana to Chicago. but
something went wrong fifteen miles out
nI he ala
\ passing liner saw them. thought they
were In trouble and sent In wireless
Hence the coast patrol appearance.
Nobody Worried" Says McGraw.
I'VE were on the water two hours be-
fore being picked up" said McGraw,
but nobody was worried. We TAXED
and would have got in all right that
way II we had not been picked up.
There was a bit OF sea on but not
enough to bother the plane, and we were
as comfortable as II we had been on a
yacht: more. because the plane doesn't
roll like yacht. I'm going back the
same way"
George Grant, of the Braves, and
George Gibson. of the Pirates, were in
conference with Stoneham and Nc
Graw at various times. and some sort
of n three-cornered deal Is on the tapis.
1T ought TO develop pretty soon now or
peter out entirely, for the Pittsburg
people have reached that stage where
they want something TO be done speed
ily now or not at all
~ Regarding Maranville the latest fore
cast is that New York does not want
him. but Is TO get Whitted or Cooper
In the three-cornercd traffickng In
baseball souls. Where would the Braves
come in for a shortstop IL the Giants
got Whitted? It's all complicated and
and Dreyfuss are not putting their
Jheads together FOR nothing
odds and Ends of the Meeting.
McCraw had as callers to-day Roger
Bresnahan, Jimmy Burke and Jack
Handricks. all. like McGraw. ex-man.
ayers of the Cardinals and RAY
ySchalk How do the. White sox look
20 you for this year?' schalk was
asked. II hate to think about it, was
the answer they don't look like any.
thing"
x For the present at least Yankee.
Philadelphia deal. whereby the former
would get Joe Dugan. the shortstop is
dead issue. IL came to a standstil
and has been tabled for possible future
reference.
on or about February 20 Higgins
will send a squad Of players to Hot
Springs in charge OF Charley O'Leary
Huggins doesn't know whether or not
he will be there, but he will send such
pitchers as want TO go and one or two
others Mays and Ruth are expected "a
be OF the party 10 take the preliminary
work before roll call at Shreveport, and
maybe Hoyt and Bodie. six or eight
players will go for course OF mountain
climbing. baths and limbering up.
w Harry Frazee and Hugh Duffy OF the
Red Sox are here. Frazee has Just had
n talk with Del Pratt in Detroit. Pratt
has not given him a definite answer ye;
about playing next season, but Frazee
~ hopeful
Kane. outhelder. and Jones. second
baseman. Yankee property. will be
turned over to Pat Donovan OF Jersey
city. and Moore. inhelder, who was with
Jersey City last year. will be sent by
Huggins to Eugene McCann's Bridge
port club.
Harry Benson. owner OF tho San An
tonic club which sent Claude Davenport
to the Giants, says that altitudinOus
pitcher has taken on thirty needed
pounds and Is now n featherwelght OF q
ne rwFt.f Il. a.