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Show Players on Every Club Except Tail-End Team j To Share Series Money j National League Makes Radical Change in Dividing Divid-ing World's Championship Coin; Expected to Put More Pep in Men and Magnates; Ed Barrow Will Resign as President of International Following Reduction Re-duction in Salary. j Nr;V YOI; K. I cr. ! 2. ' 'oin pared w il h Ihe cxritomen t attitin llio Xfition.'il lenuo inootiu here estfrda.'', wtion tlio ro election of I 'ro'-idon f Ton or on Ii is nnti t e.rma n nd the sale of I'll i iadolphia 's star battery, Alexander and Killefrr, to Chicago wi:ro ( hn nut in foaturcs, t.ola,y 's sca-sion sca-sion ol' tho nutttatCH was without incident. in-cident. The length of next canon's playing sehedule and the poR.iihle reduction ot the player limit were informally dis-rtiHsed, dis-rtiHsed, but no action was taken. Both were tinan i in on sly deferred tint il the . u t ionn I lea iir re prose ntat.i ves eau get, to I'hieneo, where they will hold a joint conference with tho American league club owners Friday or Saturday. Satur-day. 1 1, was u n n on need toniplit t hat they might leave tor Chicago early tomorrow. to-morrow. The constitution was amended so that l.herc can ho no dispute in future, as was clai mod in the rnepnt MeG raw case, as to there being no appeal to the board of directors from the findings of tho league president in imposing a heavy fine for scandalous conduct on or of 1! tho field. An appeal may be taUeu, however, if a player be suspended suspend-ed for a period of more than leu days. Tt was ngreed that the present waiver rule is the best ever ,ndopted and it will remain intact. World Series Divvy. The league unanimously went on roc-! ord in favor of 1 he creating 0 a new plan dividing the players' part of the world 's series receipts. Based on the returns of the first five series prior to IfKT, the players on clubs finishing as far down as seventh place will receive re-ceive a share. .11 is hoped that this plan will prove an iiK-entivc to greater effort in playing by second division teams toward the end ' of each season. I'nder the new plan it was computed that each player on the winning club would receive about $2.r00 and the losing los-ing plavers in the series would get about $1800 each. The league will .set aside one day' at each ball park during the season on which 2i per cent of the gate receipts will bo donated to the Clark Griffith bat and ball fundj which provided $32,-00(1 $32,-00(1 worth of baseball paraphernalia to enlisted men during the last six months. It is estimated that $60,000 each year will suffice for this purpose. Jeff Pfeffer Enlists. During the meeting President Charles B. Kbbeta of the Brooklyn club received re-ceived a telegram from Pitcher Edward J. Pfeffer, stating that he had enlisted for army service and would report for duty .January 1. Kbbets immediately forwarded a reply, congratulating Pfeffer Pfef-fer upon his action and wishing him success in the service. An expected aftermath of the International Inter-national league meeting developed when Edward G. Barrow, president, of the league, announced that he had decided to resign the position of league president, presi-dent, his retirement to take etfect February Feb-ruary 12. This is the date set for the next meeting of the International league at which time the clubowners will cast a final vote upon the question of continuing the "ame during the 9XS season. Mr. Barrow, whose salarv was reduced re-duced from $7o00 to $2300 at Tuesday's Tues-day's meeting, did not attempt to eon-coal eon-coal his feelings toward the International Interna-tional league magnates. He stated that he was through with baseball, so far as it coocerned that organization, but refused to discuss his future plans ! other than to say that he had several j propositions in view, both in baseball I and commercial business. He denied that there was any truth in the report that he -would be engaged as president of the Boston American league club, saying that he knew nothing regarding the matter except what had been repeated re-peated to him by persons in no wise connected with the Boston club. AMERICAN MAGNATES OPPOSE PANIC TALK CHICAGO, 111.. Dec. 12. After a five-iuicir five-iuicir session, club owners of the American Ameri-can leauue adjourned their annual meeting meet-ing tonight until tomorrow without t akin?- any definite action on a policy in connection with the war. The question of slashing the player limit, shortening the spring training trips and otiier war mea-Is'.nes mea-Is'.nes will be taken up tomorrow afternoon. after-noon. President Ban Johnson was advised by August Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Nationals and chairman of the i national baseball commission, that the jclub owners of the -National league, who i have been in session in Xew York, would j start west tomorrow for a joint meeting I with the American leaguers here Friday. Routine affairs and a brief discussion of , the player limit commanded the atten-j atten-j tion of the American league today. Thev 1 rr:i.-ritd an un..'rs;aii'li:ig in regard to a M)o;ind for I'olle. tiiie Die federal var tax .ri :is,-.'fi, Inn witjiheld an 1 1 m :e -ei Mfiil until un-til ill1- jftirt meeting Frida. The R'lT pejuiHiu. u.'is. awai'dd t tiif ('hieago club and i 'Maries A. t'oiuiskfy, president of the eliHMipionship White Sr, was re-eleclrd vjci; president nf l. he league. The new hoard of dlreciora is composed of Phil I . C Ha II, president of t ho St. IxuiiH club ; ('rank .1. XaIn. president of the Detroit club; Hen S. Minor of t he Washington club, and B. F. Shi bo of Philadelphia,. President Johnson said tonight that, the .sentiment of the club owners strongly favored a retention of the present player limit of twenty-five nien and continuation of the usual spring training trips. "1 think we should continue as in the past," Colonel Jaiob Rupert of New York said. "We could not possibly get along with eighteen men. Tho lowest number, in my Judgment, would be twenty-nne. That roster would give us seven pitchers, three catchers, -six intlelders and five outfielders. out-fielders. This number is necessary if we are to lie prepared to face injuries and accidents to regular players. '"It's necessary to carry undeveloped minor mi-nor leaguers, even though they do not get into a game once a year. The average aver-age minor leaguer coming to the big leagues is scared to death and it requires time for him to wear oft' his stage-fright." stage-fright." President - Comiskey of the White Sox said he was opposed to any induction in the playing schedule, the player liinjt and discussion of any panic which might come to hafteball through thoughts of the war. "Tho gatne has passed through other crises a.nd will live through tills one," Air. Comiskoy said. "We should go about our business sanely and cross bridges when we come to them. I believe the public wants the game and, until it says otherwise, it is up to us to proceed along the lines we always have folIowodV Miller lluggins. Yankee manager, mingled min-gled with the throng of magnates In this city. Hoggins is trying to pry Del Pratt loose from the St. Louis Browns. Manager Mana-ger Rowland of the world's 'hampions was among those present. lie bought several drinks and talked theater with a couple of grand opera stars he happened to run across. Clark Griffith and Harry Frazee talked shop. Griffith is trying lo strengthen his club., He needs an outfielder and an In-fielder. In-fielder. Frazee asserted the "old fox" Is trying to give him a one-legged player for a stake horse. The deal fell through. Baseball notables from all over the country hobnobbed here while the mug-nates mug-nates met. Big leaguers and "bushers" rubbed elbows and talked of deals, etc. Manager Mitchell of Ihe Cubs said regarding re-garding the deal which brought Alexander and Killefer to Chicago: "The deal will make us pennant contenders con-tenders right lo the finish. We are now in a position to give the Giants a great run." The Philadelphia club today declined a cash proposition for the services of Outfielder Out-fielder Paskert made by the S't. I-ouis club. The Brooklyn club offered to trade Outfielder Zack Wheat to Philadelphia for Outfielder Whit ted, but the deal was turned down. There is a possibility that Del Pratt, second baseman with the St. Louis Americans, Ameri-cans, may be traded to Xew York before the end of the week. Colonel Rupert of the Yankees said tonight that he was prepared pre-pared to offer cash or plavers for him. Pratt lias a $100,000 suit alleging libel against President Ball of the St. Louis club and Is known to be anxious to play elsewhere. |