The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-13
PLAYING CHART
OF NATIONALS
TO BE ADOPTED
Magnates to Gather in
NeuD York Ton1or-
rOED.
BY JOHN b. FOSTER.

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New York, Feb. 13.-National
league moguls will meet in New
York tomorrow and send them
selves a valentine in the shape of
their schedule for 1922 They will
adopt it just as it is because they
cannot do otherwise. II is the rule
between the leagues that they must
take their medicine as it is pre-
scribed for them. There would be
a real sensation If the National
! league did not adopt its schedule. 1t
would be like a return to the old
times when the rivalry between
leagues was expressed by down
right fighting.
The dates of the National league
schedule will be almost exactly
the reverse of those of the Ameri
can league. Where a club has two
holiday dates in the American
league the rival club in the same
city may have but one holiday date.
When the Yankees are finished with
their new stadium in New York
there may be a different allotment
of dates. 1t might even go so far
as arranging games between New
York and Pittsburgh. for Sunday.
Pittsburgh can be reached over
night. The same thing might apply
between New York and Cleveland
and New York and Detroit in the
American league. One state au-
thority suggests, however that if
the Sunday proposition is played
up too strong in New York, so
strongly that it savorS of CONNER
cializing the day of rest, there Will
be aroused a current of upstate
sentiment which will send the Sun
day law kiting.
Not QuarreIing.
The National league has a little
discussion in prospect. 1t has not
quite risen to the dignity of 4 quar-
rel. 1t is an argument between the
Philadelphia club as party of the
first part and St Louis club and
Brooklyn club as the defenders.
President Baker of Philadelphia
has asserted that both clubs have
tempered with certain of his play
ers if his public utterances have
been correctly interpreted. Both
of the other clubs resent his re
marks and deny their truth. The
affair will be threshed out in league
meeting.
Time was when such a stand by
club owners might have been for
seasons row and no end of acri-
monious affirmation and retaliation.
Not much attention is paid to it
now and perhaps it is because of
the forming sentiment that dicker-
| ing in ball players is not as popu-
lar as it was. Holdouts are both
ering the clubs Of both leagues
Several players of consequence
have not signed their cont acts
and have demanded sums far in eX-
cess of their probable worth. Some
of them are looking for publicity
and a little more advertising for
their outside ventures Probably
all of them will be in line by the
taime the season begins if the own
ers stand firm.
Draft Dissent Sticks.
International league club own
ers in New York for their meeting
say there is no reason why they
should change their minds as to
the draft since the International
league has been non-drafter ever
since the discussion of the question
came up. The Jersey City club is
presumed to have determined to go
ahead and for that reason the In
ternational league will start its
1922 campaign relatively as it fin
ished in 1921. Efforts have been
made to strengthen the teams of
the organization against Baltimore
and the indications are that some
have improved their material lot