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Show jMEETING TODAY If RESULT li NSHN6ES Salary and Player Limits May Be Raised; Maier Denies Charges of Juggling. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, July 12. With Frexy Baum on hand, and also a representative rep-resentative of every club in the circuit, the first meeting of tho Coast league to be held in Los Angeles within the last five years will be called to order by the league boss tomorrow at the Van Xuys hotel. Proxy Baum has notified each club of the meeting and all will be represented. repre-sented. Prexy Powers will speak for his Angels ; T. J. Dannody, newly-appointed secretary and director of the Tigers, will represent President Maier, for he will not be present; Walter ALc-Credie ALc-Credie will leave his Beavers in San Francisco and come south with Hen Berry of the Seals for the confab. President Frank S. Mnrphv will be here for the Salt Lake Saints. This is Murphy's first trip to Lus- Angeles. There are all sorts of reports flying around as to what the exact nature of the meeting will be. First it was announced an-nounced that the pow-wow was to raise the salary and player limits of the circuit cir-cuit and then it was reported that the directors are coming south to investigate investi-gate the books of the Vernon club. Charges have been made at various times that the Vernon club paid llomis Mi'ze and Roy Mitchell their salaries, while they we're supposed to be released. re-leased. While they were not playing with the Tigers tney refused to sign with any other Coast league club. Maier denied these charges aud says that he will have all the moguls investigate the matter thoroughly. History of Trouble. A brief history of the Vernon club business, which is slated for the probe, is found in the following outline: Last winter, when the directors gathered gath-ered in their annual meeting, they enacted enact-ed a player limit of eighteen and a salary limit of This went into effect on May 1, and. In order to make the managers man-agers and magnates live up to their agreement, it was specified that a fine of $100 a day would be imposed for every day the violation was in effect. A howl went up, but when May 1 rolled around the managers proceeded to lop on! heads and make the best of it. Vernon created some surprise by the announcement that Mitchell and Mitze had been given their unconditional releases. re-leases. Both were going good at the time, and only a few days elapsed before the other Coast league managers put out their lines to sign up the discarded players. play-ers. Right here is where the mouse started start-ed getting out of the bag. Mitchell and Mitze flatly refused to do business. They were offered the same salaries they had been drawing from Vernon, and the natural nat-ural feeling was that they would jump at rhe chance to remain in harness. With so many Federal league players on the market, it was no easy matter to land a job. Off for Vacations. Mitchell and Mitze, however, went on a vacation. It is said that they hiked out to the ranch owned by Ed. Maier, president presi-dent of the Vernon club. This went on for several weeks, and once again the offers were renewed and the refusals were in order. Suspicion was created, but there was no evidence for the president presi-dent of the league to go ahead and collect col-lect all of that money that had been accumulating ac-cumulating with $100 a day. The two players would, perhaps, have still been enjoying their vacations save for the fact that Manager Ham Patter- son decided lie needed some pitching ! help. Shortstop McGafhgan had injured i his leg or arm or something unci was promptly suspended. This left Vernon officially of-ficially with seventeen players, and Mitchell took his turn on the mound against the Seals a couple of weeks ago. Mitchell has ben back ever since, a nd is now being referred to as "the well-known well-known farm hand." Nothing happened to Spencer or Whaling Whal-ing behind the bat. so that Mitze continued con-tinued to enjoy his vacation. So much . talk went the rounds, however, about the Vernon reserves that on Sunday Mitze was dispatched to St. Joseph, in the Western league, to manage that club. St. Joseph is a sort of farm for the Vernon club, and another connection has been discovered. There is no use beating around the bush. Mitchell and Mitze have been unquestionably un-questionably on the Vernon payroll and (Continued on Following Page.) BE If COME IT 1ETIIC TODAY (Continued From Preceding Page.) reserve list. The other magnates and managers naturally took offense at Fd. Maier's putting over the rouirli deal. They ooenlv talked about it. and the salary and player limit was a joke so far as the Tigers were concerned. It gave Vernon an uivilue advantage. While San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Oak'and. Portland and. In fact, the rest of the clubs were worrying alnn-if with cripples. Patterson co'iid call in his reserves, whenever he wiMr-d. Since coming com-ing bai-k from the farm Mitchell has won four straight games, and if Oakland had bad a similar reserve to throw in when Martin wont out it would have made quite a c:fTerere. The same is doubly true of P'llt Lake, especially in regard to me out Held. |