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Show iSIiis P MEET THIS WEEK) I I National to Elect Presi- j dent; Lively Tilts Expected Ex-pected in American. By Universal Service. NEW YORK, Dec. 8. The stage iu all set for the firat session of the "winter" league and there is every indication that rhe coming week will furnish enough fan food to keep the baseball bug much alive thiriiiK the next two months. Tim meeting of the International league opens here tomorrow, the National league Tuesday and the American league in Cht-'ago Cht-'ago on Thursday. The Indications are that the New York gathering will be qul.'t and orderly, compared with the one In the middle-west city. The American :eauc is seething with Internal dissension dissen-sion and also has the Johnson-Frazee feud on Us hands Report has it that .Johnson has promised to put the owner of tiie Boston hampionB, who invited for- : mer President Taft to take charge of . baseball, out of the national game, but it is . a well-known fact that Frazee la not in the habit of being "put." The National league Is scheduled to flfi-t a president, but may postpone that until a later meeting. The announced candidates most prominently mentioned are John Heydler. the secretary and acting act-ing president, and Judge Francis X. Mc-Quaid Mc-Quaid of this city. There has been some talk that Kansas City would replace St. 'Lou Ik In the senior league, but President ('. K. Jones of the Cardinals, who lias arrived for tho meeting, stated there will he no change. The fate of the minora rests largely on rhe decisions reached by the International. Interna-tional. There are all kinds of conflicting rumors about what this league will do, - hut the general impression is that it will Tlx up its" frayed financial edges and open the season In May as usual. Problems, upon the solution of "which P.io future of baseball depends, will confront con-front all the owners. It is generally conceded con-ceded that there must bo a general reorganization. re-organization. The player limit, salaries, gambling, retrenchment and the oare of flubs in financial difficulties will also be to the forefront. |