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Show GRAFT RULE GMNGE DEG!SiONPQSTPDKED National Commission Will Await Court Decision; Officers Re-elected. I CIXCIaTNATI, Feb. 6. The annual meeting of the national baseball commission com-mission was held here today, one month after the usual date of Its yearly session. ses-sion. , August Herrmann and John E. Bruce," chairman and secretary, respectively, or ; the commission, were re-elected tonight, ; after voting earlier in the day not to re- j organize until alter a decision on the , Federal league's injunction suit at Chi- , cago had been rendered. At the ai'tfrnuon session of the com- 1 mission it ivas decided that it would be best not to hold an election of officers fit this timp. because of the complicated le?Tai situation in which organized base-bail base-bail now rinds itself, but at the meeting tonight tins decision waa reconsidered and "the election was held. Chairman Herrmann of the commission said: "While we decided to reorganize, we likewise decided not to make any move for anv of the players that are likely to be involved in any decision that the cotirt might make at Chicago." Tho commission went into the question of lifting the draft from the class AA leaeues and after a discussion it was announced an-nounced that the question was such an important one, "'not only to the minor leagues concerned, but filfo to numerous numer-ous baseball players," that further time was needed before any decision was readied. President John K. TVner and -Secretary-John Heydler of the National league lett tonight for New York to attend the meeting oi the league there on Tuesday. |