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Show jj IINOR LEAGUES .""NEW YORK, Oct. 19 Well, the loyal old miner leagues arc going to lipid their annual pow wow in spito of the kaiser and all his "germ huns." " Secretary John Farrell, of the National Na-tional Association, recently issued the annual call to the Fall session, -which Is to be held in Peoria this year and you've simply gotta give the minors credit for their tenacity. You can't Shako 'em loose. They always come back for more punishment. -'The meeting this year may and may not' bring out important developments. IM, It all depends what the conglomerate mood of the minors is like when they ; get- together - One thing is certain with no play-I play-I ing' season to look forward to in 1919, , I the" minors will find themselves with an. opportunity to go into the much dis ; puled question of redisricting tcrri- I tory and there may bo some fireworks. fire-works. " The minors are, In a way, confronted confront-ed -with a new danger in the National Federation, a semi-professional baseball base-ball organization which hopes to play wartime baseball. It is not dangerous just now, but it might grow big and unwieldy if given tho proper nourishment, nourish-ment, which would come with continued contin-ued warfare across the pond. Among other things the minors will probably discuss "property rights" as applied to players who will he available avail-able after tho war, and it is expected that they will adopt tho same policy that has been adopted by the majors and draw up a sort of gentlemen's Agreement not to tamper with play-ors play-ors who formerly played with oilier qlubs when baseball comes back again. |