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Show HUGE con Oil BASEBALL IS UNDER if Judge K. M. Landis to Be Given Powers of a Czar Over Game NATIONAL AGREEMENT WILL BE FORMULATED Restoration of Draft System Likely to Be One Result of Meet . NEW YORK. Dec. 11. Committees Commit-tees representing the major and minor leagues, with Judge Landis In tht I chair, convened here today n scheduled sched-uled time to draw up a new national , agreement to govern professional base- ball. It was announced that the conference confer-ence would he held heh'.nd clo.-ed doors and the neonates placed guaids i before the entrance to the chambers. At the same hour representatives of the National Association of Minor . Leagues also went into separate ses- sion at the same hotel. NEW YORK. Dec. 11. The greatest convention of baseball interests ever assembled In this country, Involving a program for complete rc-organlzation I of th" sport's government, got under way here today. The formulation of most important problems for settlement. settle-ment. The sessions will continue for several sev-eral days, under the presidency of i Judge K. M Landis, newly appointed i head of the sport Some important deal1 involving exchange of major league playCrs vero expected to 'bo 1 made during the gathering. i i in I R4 I Its' BEGUN l.'v rtts that Jed up to tho necessity ! of adopting a new national agreement ; had their beginning about two years , ago. when the National association "f professional baseball leagues, the organization or-ganization of minor leagues, broke away from the national agreement be-cause be-cause of a controversy relative to draft provisions. Then there arose from various quarters quar-ters n demand for a re-organization of I the national commission. The commission com-mission had been composed of the i residents of th" National and American Ameri-can league with August Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati club, of the i National league, as chairman. The organisations Interested are I represented in the present convention as follows: National league: August Herrmann. Herr-mann. Cincinnati; Harney Dreyfus-. Pittsburgh, and Charles H. Ebbets. Brooklyn. American league: James C. Dunn, Cleveland; Thomas Shiho. Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, and Frank Navln. Detroit. National association! Michael IT Sexton, president. Thomas J Hlckey. ! president of the American association; J. D. Martin, president of the Southern South-ern association: J. W. Morris president presi-dent of the Texas league, lo-olge II Malnes, president of the Mlchigan-Ontarlo Mlchigan-Ontarlo league, and W. n. Walsh, president of the South Atlantic league. m isuuv ipa i n In addition, .lohn A Heyuler, president presi-dent of the National league. Pan Johnson, president of tho merlcan league, and Secretary John H. Farrell, Of the National association, are acting in an advisory capacity without vole. George Wharton Pepper, of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, and John Conway Toole, of New York, are legal advisers- Tho new national agreement which the committees propose to draw up will repluce the ono adopted in 1903. It Is generally expected that It will take the form of two parts: One between be-tween the National and American 'leagues that will apply to questions 1 involving solely major league matters and the other between the major and minor leagues than will apply to questions ques-tions Involving the Interests of these, two divisions. IDEAS IRE sin GHT Club owners and players hae been .Invited to present Ideas The new agreement, In the opinion of baseball , men here, is certain to contain a provision pro-vision for the restoration of the draft system. Such a provision Is likely to meet with serious opposition from 'some minor leagues and It Is not un-i un-i likely that it would result in some of the minor leagues refusing to become a party to the new agreement-i agreement-i W in n i he proposed new agreement, which is expected to Include numerous I radical changes, finally is in shape for acceptance- by the committees, It will i " submitted by them to their respective respec-tive organizations for ratification LANDIS LIKE CZAR I The now agreement. In addition to I outlining the duties and powers of Judge Landis, will confer upon him an official title, which probably will I be director of baseball. He undoubtedly undoubt-edly will have more power and iiuthor-ii iiuthor-ii than has been possessed by any in-' in-' dividual or commission In tho history Of baseball. As director of baseball It Is the gon-eral gon-eral belief that Judge I-undis will In ad a hoard of control, the members .of which will sit with him merely in ni advisory capacity. Hut tho Judge's decision In all mailers will bo final Th'-. judge's contract runs for seven years and fixes his annual salary ut f.OO with additional funds for cx-I cx-I penses and an office In Chicago. |