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Show MAJOR LEAGUE OWNERS WILL NOT CURTAIL IN ANY WAY NEXT SEASON Will Be No Slashing of Player Limit or Cutting of Season; Joint Meeting Decides Manner of Collecting Col-lecting War Tax; Ban Johnson, Erstwhile Dictator of Organized Baseball, Falls Into Line With Every Plan Proposed Pro-posed by National League. CHICAGO, Ppc U. There will be no rurtnilrntMit of the pUyinK reason, no Plft.-'liin nf the player limit, nor limitation of the tra linns season in thi mn.ior leapue s next yar. The ci ub ners nf the Xa t tonsil and Aoirelran !oarrnc. i -i 1 e -1- at their joint inert I nr here lo.luy thai there was no Muse for alarm in hasL'ball at present. They ,n;Tffl that ii' the war fnrres them tr retivneh it w i Ii he I ' me enough to adopt :i w;i i' poln '' hfii they nctually fat?r eomli ti his net pvrtug. The two h-nr'uen deei.lo,! to open the 1!HS yejRSon n,i Tuesday. Vprll 16, a vpfk later t han last yea r and to play a iril-sanie schedule, which has been the programme tor years. The National league nfrrrjpd to the American lea a no plan lor i i)r collection of .the i'dera I war tax. , 1 1. was neeided to vollect only what the 1 government in, poses u eent n bleacher bleach-er f-eats, 5 ei'iits on pavilion seats, S ) i-pnts on giandstand and I'l cents on box (scats. The leagues alao decided to collect col-lect a 1 o-cen L lax mi every free admission. admis-sion. Tlirre is o cry indication that the plan fin- a new division nf the world's series ' prize, which prpvhu'sly had been opposed h President Johnson of t he American league, will hp adopted. President .Totm-:--on and A usust Herrmann, t he latter president uf the t'incinnati Nationals and chairman 'f i ho national baseball commission, com-mission, were empowered to decide on the ad vNabilitv of adopt ins the tsclieme, which provides that the four first division divi-sion chihfi in liio two leagues shall share in the nurse. 'I was much impressed with the thought." President Johnson said tonight. "'H ca me from M r. Herrmann, and I believe be-lieve 1 shall vote for it. We propose to pool the world's, series money and also i he receipts or cit v series, which will snake a rich prise." Will Inject Pep. t'hairman llprrniann believes the plan will produce a more spirited race in both lea cues. "There will bp. something for the .second .sec-ond elub and the third and fourth clubs to f iqht for if t iey are to share in the Pi i.e." he said. "Pennant races usually are dcidrd a month or eo before the close of the season and interest in the dubs out of the fight usually lags. T am1 convinced that if i he plan is adopted (here will be no lagging. The clubs will strive to increase their standing, know-itiK know-itiK the. hieher they finish in tnt race, tha more money they will revolve. "Pasing my iic::refi on the world' s p pries receipts last seapon. the players on the club finishing second in the. ra.ee will get approximately SOiVi each. The members mem-bers of the fourth club will receive something some-thing like $;100 each. T: (s hoped that the prize shall be divided on a t0 and 4i jercentage basis. Sixty per cent of the I winners' share will. 0? course, go to the championship oluh. The remainder will be split up among the other teams.' A fig ht for a i 10-ga :ne schedule next i season was made principa lly by the 1 American leaguers, ss its adoption had hen advocKted by F'resident Johnson. The junior or.uu mza tion. however, was strongly opposed to any reduction in the player limit. It was contended that the nji t ional army dm ft might out deeply in to the cjubs before next season and, under t hese cireunis lances, it would be unwise to make any ehnngca. . .Home, of the National league club" owners sought to hnve the two leap ties agree on a limit of twenty or twenty-two players. The present limit of twenty-five players in the American league and twenty-two in the National will be maintained. President Johnson said the subject oE paying the ?ll').i)0i) debt to hackers of the Pittsburg, Newark and Urooklyn clubs of the Federal league was not brought up at today's meeting. He said the issue prob-hp!v prob-hp!v would be settled by the individual leagues. The American league is ready to pay its share o5,000 any time, he said. |