Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-07-24 | Page 8 | Baseball to Get Hearing Form Crowder

BASEBALL TO GET HEARING I FROM Officials Officials to Meet i Pr Provost t I Marshal l General for Definite Definite I nite Agreement I I S Br Dy I Washington Jul July 23 Officials of ot ors organized baseball are arc to meet with I Provost Pro Marshal General Cro Crowder der to tomorrow tomorrow to to- morrow an and Ret get a definite ruling a ns to I the status tatus of oC SetH baseball players un under er erthe the work ork or order Secretary of War ar for th the tha conference today after receiving ing a request from thi th baseball officials cIas to bo be heard The chief argument which will bo advanced nd by the officials on behalf of at the tho players Is that the number of at men affected b by the ruling against I Is much larger lars than wa believed vel at atthe atthe atthe the time Secretary Baker made m hi his recent ruling that baseball base ban is i not essential 58 The baseball officials will attempt to convince con Genral Crowder that the tho number of at draftees tho the players pl Is la large enough to tu mane male continuance con con- of ot the tho game game- Impossible If It all should bo be called colled Into service ser If It the officials of oC the K game me are ue Unable un unable un Un- able to obtain a ruling to exempt the tho players from the draft the they will undertake undertake under under- take to get et the army postPone postpone post post- pone none ex execution of ot the order until after the present s season ason closes The officials take the tte view that the season has hes not much longer lonser to run and If IC all the eligible players are to tobe tole be le drafted thereby closing down the same r-ame p permanently they the ought to be allowed to close their reason before beCore being called to the tho training camps