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Show ASSOGIATiON HEADS DECIDE ON CHANGES Cut Schedule Down and Prepare to Talk Inter-League Inter-League Series. By International News Service. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Deo. 9. ; Baseball continued to be the popular indoor in-door sport around the corridors of tho ; Claypool today since a majority of the magnates who elevated Thomas ,1. j Hickey of Minneapolis to the American j association throne in place of Thomas M. Chivingtoa of Chicago at yesterday 's annual meeting remained over an ox- tra day preparatory to departing for New York tonight to take up the propo-sitions propo-sitions of an interleague series with club owners of the International league. The annual meeting of the International Interna-tional organization will be held in New York on Monday, and sinco the club owners of both leagues have expressed themselves favorable to the plan it is likely that a tentative schedule will be drawn up. The question of a third major league as proposed, to consist of four Ameri- ; can association and four International j league clubs, was discussed informally, j President Hickev, who took the chair ' shortly after being elected, announced, but added that the club owners were not inclined to take the plan seriously at this time. Louisville was chosen as the league , headquarters for one year, but President Presi-dent Hickey said the formal removal of the offices would not take place until some time after January 1. The 1916 pennant was awarded for- , mally to Louisville. No action was taken on either the salary or player limit questions, although both were discussed dis-cussed informally. A schedule committee, composed of O. H. Wathen bf Louisville Mike Can-tillon Can-tillon of Minneapolis, A. i. Timme of ; Milwaukee and the president, was appointed, ap-pointed, the committee to meet at Kansas Kan-sas City February 24." It was decided that in the event the series with the International league is arranged the j American association will play 112 games, or 154 games in case the inter- league series falls through. It was decided that the 168-game schedule was too long. The A. A. sea- . son will open on the same date as the major league. , President Hickey read a telegram i from President E. G. Barrows in which the International league head approved the plan for the interleague series and invited the A. A. club owners to attend . the International meeting Monday. A jfc committee, consisting of President Hickey, O. H. Wathen of Louisville, M. E. C'antillon of Minneapolis, A. F. Timme of Milwaukee, J. W. Norton of St. Paul and J. C. McGill of Indianapo- ! lis, was named to make the trip. This ' committee also will act for the other i three club owners, George Tebeau of Kansas City, Roger Bresnahan of Toledo To-ledo and E. M. Schoenburn of Columbus, j who were unable to get away at this ! time. -J |