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Show NATIONAL WILL PIGM HEAD NEW YORK, Dec. 7. The annual meet-ins meet-ins of the National league, to be held in this city next Tuesday, will he the first step In tho direction of baseball reconstruction. recon-struction. While a number of problems confront the senior league magnates, there is no evidence that a concerted program of action ac-tion has been evolved. Among questions which must be considered is the election of a league president, the future status of players " released outright last autumn, national commission arrangements, plans for 1919. and limitation of club rosters. The election of a president to succeed John K. Tener. who resigned last summer. sum-mer. Is expected to be one of the first matters to be considered. The names of four nien have been mentioned in connection con-nection with the position, but no one appears ap-pears to have a majority of the eisrht votes back of his name. The quartet is composed of John A. Heydler, present secretary-treasurer of the league; Lieutenant Lieu-tenant David L,. Fultz, former prsidnt of the "Baseball Players' fraternity; Francis Fran-cis X. McCjuade, a city magistrate of Now York and Robert Brown of Lou is ville, Kv. The status of the player is also a matter mat-ter of considerable concern and must be settled before big league baseball can proceed with arrangements of the corning corn-ing season. While the players were released re-leased outricht on September 1. in accordance ac-cordance wi;h the Wahsington authorities' authori-ties' "work or fight" order, legal opinion opin-ion appears to be that since the art ion was necessary to conform with government govern-ment orders the reserve clause is still binding. As a further safeguard, there is s;ud to be working acreemo-its between the maznates of both the National and American leagues not to bid for the services ser-vices of each other's players. Several of the National league mnenr-tes are of the opinion tbut a joint meeting with the American league will be neces-sarv neces-sarv before plans looking toward the resumption re-sumption of baseball on a large scale can be completed. |