Show AN ATHLETIC TRUST Great Combine In Baseball and Athletic Ath-letic Sports Being Formed New York Sept 5rhe Evening World says A great trust In baseball and professional athletics Is being organized or-ganized by magnates of the National league headed by President Hart of the Chicago club and Andrew Freedman Freed-man of thu New York club Articles of Incorporation of the National Athletic Ath-letic company which Is to be the name of the new combination have been drawn up and the promoters expect to complete the project so rapidly that I they will have control of professional athletics before the starting of the I acaxonnextspring i President Hart of Chicago flrit I broached the subject several months ago He had first exhausted every argument Kument to Induce his brothers In the I National league to make terms of peace with the American league Presidents Brush Freedman and others however would not join In the harmony movement move-ment Freedman at first was equally averse to the trust Idea but It had so many seeming advantages that he at last joined with Hart In the preliminary prelim-inary negotiations Soden of Boston and Rogers of Philadelphia are two of those so far left put t of the negotiations It Is reported re-ported that Poblson of St Louis is Inter in-ter ed In the matter already but the Inner circle Is being kept small and none of the men known to be involved will talk of the details Whether Hart and Freedman and their associates expect to seek the control con-trol at once of cricket athletic sports and other branches outside baseball they will not say The contemplated capital stock Is 50000000 The main object ot the combine will be to merge the National and American leagues |