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Show NEW U. S. LEAGUE IS ' III D1U1DIT1 Players Go on Strike Because They Have Not Received Their Salaries. By International News Scrvlco- XEW YORK, May 27. Tho United States lcaguo faces dissolution as a result re-sult of a striko hy playorB of tho Chicago Chi-cago club. Thc Windy city ap;rro?catlon refused to play New York at tho Bronx oval tills afternoon. Tho players mutinied when their manager, man-ager, Billy Nelson, Yallcd to put in an appearance. They claimed as an excuse that they had received no salary to dato and that they would be forced to pay most of their own expenses. Thoy did not care to go on, they said, with what appeared n. losing cause. It was rumored locally today that Reading was ready lo quit. That would mean four desertions from thc original eight clubs. Cleveland and Chicago appear ap-pear to ho through hi tho wcsU Washington Wash-ington and Beading, In tho east, aro also ready to quit. Reading lias been ono of the most enthusiastic towns on the circuit. cir-cuit. A meeting of the magnates will be held in Pittsburg tomorrow. It is understood un-derstood that SL Iyjuis financiers are willing to take over tho Cloveland franchise fran-chise if all tho clubs will post a $1000 forfeit "VVIth Interest In New York, Cincinnati Cin-cinnati and Pittsburg practically dead, it seems as if Wltman's proposition Is hard aground on the rocks of dissolution. |