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Show i PLAYING SEASON LIMIT ' t IS FIXED AT 21 MEN .5 National Also Decides to Let World's Series i .; Remain at Seven Games; on Record as !j Opposing Federal League. n By International News Service. , I J of sympathy in the National i lea-rue for the under dog until he X 1 begins to want something for I . himself. This was proved today J when the assembled magnates adjourned f without passing the new waiver rule de- i' manded by the weaker clubs. The rule ' provides that once waivers have been 1 asked on a player therequest cannot be1 withdrawn and the player will 'be open 1 to purchase at the waiver price by the r first club to claim him. - The club owners decided to paps the :' buck along to the schedule meeting in : ! February. The New York Giants, the ' Chicago Cubs, the Pittsburg Pirates, and ; ; at least one of the other strong clubs in j the league, put up such a roar over Julius ! Fleischmann's demand for the new rule j I that it could have beeti passed only over a i'ew dead bodies. Favor Strong Clubs. ' i The strong clubs wish to cling to their i time-honored dodge of asking waivers when jockeying fur trades, only to wlth-j wlth-j draw them if any unexpected refusal to , ; waive blocks the contemplated deal. ( The 1!U4 meeting of tile National league j has now passed into history, but it has made history in only one particular. This ; lias been the deadest, most generally dis-! dis-! appointing meeting the magnates have held in all the years they have been meeting. meet-ing. The net result of the four days may I be summed up in one sentence. The clubs will be limited to twenty-one players apiece between. May 1 and September 1 and no club may o into training quar-;i quar-;i s before March 1. j Net Result Small. That may be a lot for a bunch of baseball base-ball millionaires to accomplish in four days of deliberations presided over by a ' S2."),0(iO-a-year president, but nobody can be found who believes so. Not one big ; trade, not a deal of any kind, not even a militant declaration of hostile intentions toward the Federal league! Just a few sessions that might have beeli more exciting ex-citing bad they been held by delegates called to discuss- means to better conditions condi-tions fur underpaid oyster openers during the months of May,. June, July and August. perhaps it is hardly fair to the magnates mag-nates to say that they ignored the Federal Fed-eral league. They certainly did recognize recog-nize the existence of that body .lust before be-fore the closn of t tie final session, when .someone whose name was not announced solemnly moved that it was the sense of the meeting that the National League of Professional Baseball clubs was opposed to the Federal league. This motion was i j as solemnly seconded and passed and . ! i now stands as part of the minutes of the ' i meeting of 1311. Take that, Mr. Gil more ! ; World Series Same. j The plan to lengthen the world's series ; to eleven games died a painless death, i "Let well enough alone," warned Governor Gov-ernor Tener, and the magnates decided ihey would. The board of directors of the league i also met for about an hour before the ; final session of, the club owners. Finan- clal matters were discussed and reported to toe owners. 1 The question of players' contracts also ; came up, and It was decided to adhere to ! the present form of contract, which does ; not contain the ten-day clause. This was agreed to because of the ruling of the federal court in the Killifer case that Kills Kil-ls fer, because of the reserve clause in his 'ontraft, should have reported to the National Na-tional leapue before opening negotiations with the Federals. There was some discussion of trades, but It was mostly half hearted. Rosrer Bresnahan was prowling about looking for a second baseman, and is reported to havu offered Tommy Leach and two pitchers for Heine Groh. Herzog declined to discuss it. Herzog, by the wav, signed a blank contract for two vears and handed hand-ed it to Garry Herrmann, telling him to fill in the salary figures any way he thought right. ."I guess this ends the talk of trading Groh." said Herzog. "As I have decided to keep myself with the Reds, and us I need somebody to help me complete double plays, I think I'll keep Heine myself." my-self." Mans Lohert signed todav with the Phillies and Miller Muggins was seen in close conversation witli Sherwood Macee, possibly trying to convince the Philly outfielder that worse things could happen to him than to be traded to St. Ixuis. The proper answer to this statement, if made, would seem to be "What?" Salary Lie Nailed. One "big salary lie" was nailed today when a letter from Ben Minor, president of the Washington American league club, was shown to a bevy of scribes. Minoi said that, the best oiler made to Walter Johnson was $12,500 a vear for one two or three years. This offer abrogated the reported offer of $16,000 which Clark Griffith Grif-fith was supposed to have made. Several deals appeared to be partly consummated con-summated tonight and conferences were being held which Involved the playing future fu-ture oi several stars. Charles Dooln of the Philadplphia club was closeted with i John J. McGrftw and Pat J. Moran, man-1 man-1 ugenj, respectively, of the New York I Giants and Philadelphia 'Nationals. It was generally believed that Dooin would Join the Giants next spring, while the Phillies would obtain the services of several I Giants in the trade. President Barney Drevfus of the Pittsburg Pitts-burg club and Secretary John A. Heydler of the league wore appointed a committee to draft the 1015 playing schedule. It was also decided to continue the pension pen-sion paid to the sister of the late Harry Pulliam, former president of the league. |