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Show BASEBALL MEN EXPECT TO SIGN PAPERS TODAY TO END BASEBALL WAR With Exception of Minor Details Concerning International In-ternational League, Peace Gathering Has Agreed on All Matters, Majors s After Federal Stars t ' ( CINCINNATI, Dec 1 With the exception of the matter con cermng the International league, all conditions that will go into the peace treaty between the Federal league and organized baseball were agreed to tonight. Attorneys have been instructed ta draw np the- necessary papers, which will be signed tomorrow f ol lowing the threshing out of what was said to be only small details on the International league proposition propo-sition INCJPTNATI Dec V ith the ev ' cep on of he matter concern ng 1 the Internal onal league all condi V' tions that wl I go nto the peace treaty between the Federal league and organized baseball were agreed to tonight. Attorneys have been nstnjeted to draw up the necessary papers which will be signed tomorrow following the threshing out of what was said to be onl small details on the International league propo sition U Thai the final treaty of peace will be signed tomorrow appears certa n Inas much as t was official! stated that a 1 number of Interna t ona eague matters I 1 ad been gone into and decided upon favorably and that those which remained i were of the most minor character and would cause lit le troub e In he confer : j ence to no row eeghman Gets Cubs The meet ng lasted until almost m d ! night, and at ts conclue on the above : facts were announced with the addlt onal I nformation ha none of the cond ons ould be given out officially until the , final s gn ng of the treaty Unofficially but -author tatrrely It was made known that the agreement w make poss b e the p chase of he Chicago Nationals by harles " eeghman president of the Chi cago Fede a h and or the St Louis Amer leans b Pb Ba 1 of S Lou s Other ond ons Record ng to semi off nfo ma on as learned tonight were Tha he Federa league would assume and carr ou al of Its ex sting contracts wit pajes Tha he Wa d nterests in all Federal 1 agu ma wou d be e mbu sed to ex en f $ 0 pa d n vear y n a m n ? r h x wen y years or In other words per cent of the n one would be pa d each ear Th s would be distributed among the sixteen ubs In the major leagues and would amount to approx mately $1200 a year to each Contract Jumpers Safe That all contract jumpers would be restored to good standing n organized baseball Other than the abo e a number of ru mors we e n circulation tonUM but none bore the stamp of e en gem official appro ap-pro aL At the meeting tonight the committee representing1 the minor leagues was taken Into the general discussion, and those who were in the room when the mee Ing ad joumed consisted of the na tonal com miss on Messrs Gil more. VTeeghman and & ncla r of he Federal league and Messrs J H Fa rell Thomas Chiv ngton and Ed ward Barrows of he minor leag ea. During the evening Edward Gwynner of the Pittsburg Federals Patrick Fowler of the New York Federa a. Jack Hendricks of the Ind anapolia American association club and Harry Hempstead of the New York Nationals were called before the conference. The meeting will convene again at 11 o clock o morrow forenoon Off cially nothing of any great in tereat to the major league tans hap-rened hap-rened at the nit al session of the peace gathering The announcement that the affa rs or the International league were discussed was so general and so lack nig in details that it might just as well hae been sad that the relations between the South Atlantic and the Federal formed the topic of the five ho r conference "Whether Baltimore was to have major league clnJb or whether it would 1 be compelled to be content with one of cla6s A rating wasn t mentioned, and no amount of quest oning coula bring it forth The magnates and league officials s mply declared that the International league was d scussed and progress made Lots of Stones. The many conferences the secret meeting of the magnates and the stories float ng about the lobby of the hotel : revealed more real news of interest to the baseball fans Here are some of the et (fries Captain Huston of the New York Yankees s here to get Lee Magee from the Brooklyn Federal league team for his H ghlanders Pres dent Hempstead of the G ants s here in hope of landing Bennle Kaaff for the MeCraw nine Pre dent Weeghman may be compelled to Jo rney to Texas to secure possession of he Cub stock Charles P Talt th owner has gone to h ranch near San An on o and wl 1 not return until ooni4 me In Januan An arrangement has been made whereby P ealdent Murphy and Taft. owners of he wes s de ball park win be peaceful and offer no object ons to ho removal of he Cutw to the north side President Weeghman Is already on the nun for a second baseman and figures ha f he gets this man his united no h and west side sf uada will offer him nn g ub Th haseba suit now before Judge Lan w not be withdrawn until all he a n have been ar ange and the peace a s sr d This Is a vi tory for Preni en mo e of the Federal league who ared he would never permit the with 4 awal of the suit un if peace was an a a fact Many Want Kauff T at the tt e fe lows are to lose heav was made certa n in the case of Benny K tf He was the property of the In napo s lub when he J mped to the F ra ii, b t he U coming ra k nto or scan z I basehal and he Brooklyn Fed h earn w 11 get whatever money la pa d o h m Tha th s win be a large sum Is certa n T e New York O an s wan htm bad v an P esldent Hempsteftd Is here to offer g a mo nt He has much ompetlt n hlH own I v for Cap a n Hub on a so an a be sensa onal o filler The a w u d a her have Magee however nl n sa ha Lee has a eady been d ha he an expe t a bon a in add! on o h n salary f ho can awing the a n fa o of he New York American ag e ub Gwynner May Buy Indians r e a oncern n he Upon n of he 1 nd c ub and f he New Yo k a n were a so aflo& Desp e he fa a Cwynner haan been o n ed In he h k enheeal a ad has been n o h 1 a ions h he peace rom h n n an! wl h he rragna a of e agi e an n n d la Uat no f r pi n s t. hi f h a a ny k n n f s n I b 0 Johnson had this to say late th s ai er noon It is pract cally certain that Bal n get either the Card nals or the Browns and Its more likely that he wl 1 get the American league club Roger Bresnahan s fate oocup ed some of the time of the peace en oja and the story late today was that he wou d he sent to Toledo Not only will he be permitted to purchase a part of the stock of that club, but he will be made manager and his salary for directing the team w 1 be the same now paid to him by the Cuba Th a was practically the only ay of arlng for Roger for his contract Is of the Ironclad variety and still has two years to run. |