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Show MOGULS FAVOR ! : SHQRTJEASON American League Recommends Recom-mends 140-Game Schedule; Sched-ule; Player Limit. Men in Service Provided For; Garry Herrmann Highly Praised. CHICAGO, Dec. 12. After recommending recommend-ing the adoption of a HO-gamc schedule for next season, the annual nice tins ol' the American league was adjourned late tonight to meet in j"int session with the National league in New York on January , Hi to consider problems confronting the resumption of baseball. A committee from the National Association of -Minor leagues "ill be invited to attend the joint meeting. Provided tlic MO-samc schedule is adopted, the season will open on or about May l, fifteen days later than usual, and close on September ;I0. The question of what to do with players who jumped their dims last summer to Join "shipyard Ira sues'" was sidetracked. Tlie matter was left lo the judgment of each of the club owners. Tim resolution pmpoed barring those players was nut introduced, it was eNplnined. because of the inadvlsabilily of taking league action on the issue. Sentiment of the existing governing body of baseball was reflected in the resolution adopted approving the continuation continu-ation of the present national commission a nd expressing confidence in August Herrmann, chairman of the commission, in addition to paying' a tribute to his services ser-vices to baseball in the last sixteen years. Seven vol a$ were cast in favor of Herrmann. Herr-mann. Harry Frazee. president of the Tioston club, who recently offered the post of a "one-man" national commission to William 1 1. Taft, did not vote. It was agreed to abolish, the right to recall waivers in the league and a change was mado in the system regard ins the world's series receipts in so far as they affect the leaque itself. 1 Icreafter the league treasury will be enriched bv T0 per rent of the penonant-winning club's share instead of 25 per cent. There was a discussion dis-cussion regarding a chau.se in a division of the world's series receipts, but action was postponed. Another move in the path of retrenrh-. retrenrh-. mcnt was the decision to slash the club player limit from twenty-five to twenty-one twenty-one men, starting fifteen days after the ; pennant race nan btcu n. imt in order ro take care of the players in the military mili-tary or naval service, a special amendment amend-ment was passed, .so each club owner witi be permitted to retain returned soldiers and sailors on ids roster for thirty days. During this, period these players will not be included in the player limit. If at the end of that time they are deemed of major calibre they will automatically be regarded as regulars and other players must be dismissed to make room for them. The following were elected board of directors for the comins year: Jacob Ruppert, New York; Harry France. Boston; Bos-ton; James Dunn. Cleveland, and Charles Comiskcv, Chicago. President Frazee of the Boston club denied de-nied that a syndicate of Cleveland cap-itaJists cap-itaJists had made an offer for his baseball base-ball holdings. |