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Show FEDERAL 10 il ; NEW EWffl FIELD Gilmore and Associates Decide De-cide on Eight-club "Farming" "Farm-ing" Circuit. By International News Service. NEW HA.VEN, Conn., Jam. SO. The first step In the Invasion of the Eastern ioctation and New England leagues tody bv the . Federals was taken here at a m'eetins- attended by Inside"1 Gilmore and Robert B. Ward, tho latter lat-ter of the Brooklyn Federals when it was announced that steps had been de- Hded upon that, wouiu retiuit iu- -u- belnff Placed in eight cities now . In the two Vdles , namod" Nf t'. wfthh'eW rnrfbvtfnt hre.nouroS applications had linen received from fifteen pUices for: ad-miSSlon ad-miSSlon in the statement regarding the . applicants or their citiee was vouchsaica. 1 tn n attendance at the meeting ex. r,resed themselves aa satisfied with the outlook and all .raid they were conv need the league was bound to go throu.lu Just a Starter. President Gilmore gave out the follow-statement follow-statement at the close of a, two-hour W"WceaCre golns to Invade Eastern and New England territorj-. Nothms deflr, to Wis been decided upon as yet, except Uiat pofnt I came here to be shown, and am p i,Lo,i villi the nrospects. In fact, f?Uf nnear brlihtar than I had antici-PSafwo antici-PSafwo have just started tho ball "president Gilmore took occasion to rfenv that the Federals had made any ove?tur?5 to Leslie -Mann, whom t was reported Intended to jump to the outfitter out-fitter the meeting relterts' were cur-rent' cur-rent' that New Haven, Worcester Ha, t-inrinPcld t-inrinPcld Providence, and Man-Chester Man-Chester NH niKht be Included n the cnestu, - J , , ,-ontirmed, Ser ?rSid Gilmore stating .hat the circuit : would not be definitely made until after JJarch. Feds Furnish Players. r,Vver the pan-nt lr-acue pnyins the .111-fereiice .111-fereiice when the player s salary .s In ex-of ex-of that amount. Tho" at the conference were Presl-,J, Presl-,J, i-Hmore Robert a Ward, one of ?rtiU- f ti.e Brooklvn Kederui;: L. - p-k of Provldenco, R- I.; -' Mcltoy of Manchester. N. H ; J. D . Baxter Bax-ter of ST,rlns:feld, Mass.; E I. Land-lf Land-lf nf Darilnirv, Conn., and James A. f aneA of New Haven. Another meeting 1S if, be held in March. NEW OWNERS TAKE CHARGE OF YANKS 'ilajcbali club to Jacob Ruppert (Continued ou Following Fage.) ! FEDERAL TO INVADE mi mm field (Continued from Preceding Pago.) and T L. Huston was completed here this afternoon. President Ban Johnson said that the new owners had paifl the remainder of the purchase price due Prank Farrell and assumed control of the club. The negotiations extended over a period of almost two months, the first payment of $5j,000 having been made several weeks ago. |