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Show I. ' BASEBALL MAGNATES ; 1 ARE COMING TO TERMS - ' Provisional Agreement Reached Yesterday Between Representatives Repre-sentatives of Pacific Coast, American and National - , v I Leagues in Conference at San Francisco. 'Son Fmnclsco, Feb 2..V provisional Hl I agreement has boon reached between rcp- Hj I rcsontatlvcs of the PncUlc Coast Baseball Hj league and the two major leagues. A H ) I conference, participated in ltctweeu Ban Hf 1 Johnson, representing (he American Hr ) ' i league: Jnmcs j. I Tart, representing the V I I National association, and Edward flan- H, ; ln representing the. Minor Leagues' a- Hj ' 1 xoclutlon, on tlie one side, and Henry Har- H J rln. James Mori ay and Eugene Bert. rnii- H ' i rcHontatlvrs oi iho local league, on the H I) S other .sldi was licld in thin city today. HLj The Paclllo Const league magnate.? Ht . , stated that no players who had mndo con- H . tracts with Pacific oCast clubs for next H ' season would bo surrendered. Hanlon H j stated that he would have to eommunl- B ' eaie with the different-clubs who had lost B , players before he could atrroo to this. Bp Tho only player over whom there seemed j I to be serious contention war Cape. Dillon J , I of tho Los Angeles club, who had signed BH, to play with Brooklyn as well as Los BH, Allele.". Both Hanlon and Morlcy were BBBJI Inclined to fight for him. but they finally BBBfl agreed to settle their disputo out of, court. Gochennuer, who belongs to Cleveland, but who has signed with Harris, will bo allowed to come to the Coast, Cleveland iclinqulahlng Us claim upon him, Portland entered a claim for Rube AVnd-doll. AVnd-doll. but It wmj shown that ho had signed with Connie Mack and accepted advance money from him before Portland negotiated nego-tiated for his aervlci'y.. Tho Pacific Coast magnates dd they would not think of accepting tho terms of J tho national agreement unless their loaxue I was DUt in a class with the two big leagues. In other words, the big leagues wore not to be allowed to draft Its play-era, play-era, and It was to be accorded tho privilege priv-ilege of making its own salary limit. The Eastern magnates said this proposition wan perfectly acceptablo to them, but they had no Idea how tho minor leagues would look at It Tho Pacific Coast lcaguo people agreed to respect tho contracts of other loagucs, which was tho chief concession it matlo. Beforo tho agreement will becomo final It will havo to be passed up to the National Na-tional Baseball association for its ratification. ratifi-cation. Tho board will not meet for two weeks yet |