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Show FEDERAL AND 0. B. STRIVE TO REACH BASIS FOR PEACE Organized Interests Give National Commission Power to Deal With Federals on Question of Ending War, Sinclair Denies He Wants Giants, Association May " Have Club in Chicago By International News Service. HEW YORK Dec. 18 The peace conference adjourned shortly after y midnight At its conclusion It -was announced that a Federal league i. committee consisting of President Gilirore, Sinclair and 'Weeghman r -will meet with the national com pr mission at 10 o clock this morning jtoBy International News Service P'A T EW T011 Deo 13 (Saturday) Tie trace between the Federal fet j league and organized baseball Bte; ' forces was still ta an unsettled HEfele early tfus morning The peace com HmpieeB from the various leagues were nSeted at the Waldorf until after mid Kggt T,ithout reaching a decision. The Bmgjt of their deliberations was. not HBfyr public and is not likely to be BB8sffei& corridors early this morn Bnb&vas. whispered that the organized FjfcP'5". dan will not proceed .with ne-ESiianoi ne-ESiianoi tynl;a the Federals fust fcdrawtjejr suit I afore-. Judge Lan BSSOSU wa taid that this question nEffiepeaee envoys during the HNKhf3ig&n? Eaisut, representing' the CS-timoiayTederSls, emphasized the fact KgCLjMlffiaiore is sealing a National Maf - -e bise and may buy the St. EEumUarial Ned Hanlon win KpS.ttsfteaiiaf the deal- te swung rotect Players BjPf of TL uto pssioh, President Bto'jjrfAiti Petfera league gave an, Lbs: iiiirscii.$ e kasW settlement UBnUiu h.ewas not on hand to EyjSPiKfTOftgxm. He declared his HgSsMP' Certain concrete propositions RCTPfcrnt, the acceptance of which KSSfTwSflf peace. Qdmore dwelt at on the player situation He said HWSLjnattex must be arranged to the Kpyattion of all concerned before MBgfe could be declared. Gilmore said Rff'Oiiei hundred and seventy five Fed I&jsral league players will have to be re- fastatefl and given a chance to play in RBSjjor league company if they are worth ft; We must be given this assurance before we will consider peace. The L 0?'rae3 these players with our y Mtffae must be lived up to The peace conference which was v scheduled for 1 o clock in the after j noon did not convene until 9 o clock v at night when the Federals finally met with the national commission which o had been delegated to act for organized baseball. A Tentative Plan Earlier the Nat onal and American it league committees and a committee from the minor leagues met and ar J ranged a tentat ve plan to be followed m the meeting w th the 1 eds V hile Seat secrocy was maintained regarl ng e plans it was sa d the terms were r such that me nbers were sat sf ed no bitch would develop The meeting of the leagues was pre s ded over by A gust Herrn ann cha r man of tl e national couim ss od The National league was represented by Pres dent Jol n K Tener V goat Herr mam Harrj Hempstead Barney i rov f ss and James Gaffuey The me a leagi e committee consisted of President Ban Johnson Colonel Jacob Euppert Joseph Lannin Ben Miner and Charles Comiskey The meeting adopted a tentative agreement and delegated the national commission with power to carry on negotiations with the Federal league One part of the peace plan that is already arranged even to the deta Is and awaits only a declaration of peace is the transfer of the Cubs to Charles Weeghman It is said that the price will be $o00 000 or nearly $300 000 less than Charles Taft asked for the club two years ago Weeghman said that if he took over the Cubs Joe Tinker would be retained as manager of the team This raised a question of contracts that will prob ably have to be threshed out by the leagues Manager Roger Bresnahan has a contract which still has t vo years to ran and expects to handle the Cubs next year Otto Knabe, manager of the Balti more l eas made bis first appearance at the Waldorf Knabe said that if peace was declared he would be back with the Phillies next vear John MeGraw who has been ill for several days showed up at the hotel as did Jimmy Callahan, newly ap pointed manager of the Pirates Harry binclair who has been repre sented as the coming owner of the New York Nationals declared the ru mor ridiculous. He said he neither had bougl t nor would buy the team |