| Show YEARS MORE FOR BAN JOHNSON AN AMERICAN Chicago Feb 16 Byron Bancroft Johnson Jonnson was reelected president president president dent secretary and treasurer of the American league at a salary said to be a year at the closing session of the annual schedule meet meeting ing in today The agreement under which the league has existed since November No 1900 was re renewed renewed renewed for twenty years Johnsons term of office will expire with the agreement In the new agreement is a clause for forbidding forbIdding forbidding bidding any club owner or holder of stock in any club to hold shares in any other club in the league except as an emer emergency emergency emergency gency measure All other articles of the theold theold theold old agreement were retained in the new one ono Uniform tickets with rain rala check cou coupons coupons coupons pons practically the same some as now In use usein useIn usein in the National league were adopted A schedule of games opening on April 14 11 and closing on October 9 was adopted unanimously This schedule was the only one submitted to the meeting and was chosen without change It was announced the dates selected would be retained whether the National league plays plas or games I If It the National league selects the short shorter er season there will be only ten con conflicting conflicting conflicting dates eight in Chicago and two in St Louis Lous Gets Big Salary While no official announcement was made that Mr Johnsons salary had been increased from to It was said on good authority that such was the case Mr Johnson said that It was wasa a personal matter He also returned the same game answer to the question as to how old he would be when his term of or office will expire This is the longest tenure of office to which any baseball president was elect elected elected elected ed It was made coexistent with the length of the new agreement It Is said Charles A Comiskey of Chicago and Ben Benjamin Benjamin Benjamin jamin of Philadelphia were the men behind this signal tribute tributo to Mr Jonson as a league leader The adoption of a agree agreement agreement ment meat was said sold to be In the nature of a compromise Some club owners favored the renewal for ten years while others spoke for a perpetual agreement such as now exists In the National league This was the main subject of debate yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day The rhe article added to the agreement forbidding syndicate baseball reads as follows No Baseball Trust Syndicate baseball Is prohibited except as an emergency measure and then only with the consent of ot the leagues president president president dent and directors shall a stockholder in one club own or control stock In another club in the American league under pen penalty penalty penalty alty of being voted and dealt with as asan asan asan an undesirable associate and barred from all connection with the league The expected big trade In which the St Louis club was to be a party had hadnot hadnot hadnot not developed late tonight Several eon con conferences were held by the various man managers managers managers agers but nothing of importance devel developed developed developed A majority of the club owners and managers left tonight 5 |
