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Show BREAKERS BO FOR THE WESTERN Seventy-five Per Cent of Ball Players Gone to War, KANSAS CITY, jSlj- 6. E. V. Dick- erson, president of the Western league, announced here today that a meeting of club owners would be held in Omaha tomorrow to-morrow to decide whether the league shall continue playing throughout the season. Mr. Dk-kerson pointed out that 73 per cent of the organization's plavers had already been called to the colors and that it was expected that they would lose 15 per cent more. There was a possibility, he said, that four of the teams might continue to operate instead of the eight clubs 'that now compose the league. |