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Show STILE PRICES IT SLL PUIS Increase in Even Decimals in Order to Avoid Handling Han-dling Pennies; Braves Buy Henry. XEY YORK, Feb. 14. A uniform schedule of admission prices to the major ma-jor league baseball parks durins the period of the war was agreed upon today to-day by a Joint committee appointed by the presidents of the National and American Amer-ican lengues. Tho results of its deliberations delib-erations was a nnounced at the close of the annual schedule meeting of the Amrrican league tonight. Including the in per cent war tax tho list of prices will be as follows : Twenty-five cent seats, 30 cents each; ;.0 tent s seats. .""." cents; T.'i-cent sea t p. S.. cents; SI and box seats, $1.10 and $1.10, respectively. These prices were adopted to avoid the trouble and delay which would be caused by making change in pennies. The, excess ex-cess charges over the amount of the regit reg-it la r war tax of 1 0 per ce n t on the 25 and 75 -cent admissions and the ?.1.5 box seats, may be retained or given to char-, ity at the discretion of the individual clubs. The playing schedule of 1M games for the l!RX season was adopted at the America n league session and it way announced an-nounced that owing to the difficulty in obtaining drill sergeants, there would be no military drilling exercises for the players the coming season. Braves Get Henry. President Frazee of the Boston Red Sox a.nd Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Athletics were in consultation for a long time regarding the players which the Boston club Is to Kive In ret urn for the services of First Baseman Mc Mines. Four players are to be sent to Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, but at the end of the conference no definite arrangement had been made, Clark Griffith, having obtained the necessary nec-essary waivers oil Catcher John Henry of the Washington club, sold htm outright to Boston Nationals. The Cleveland Americans bought Pitcher John Knr.nmun from the Newark Interna t ionaln. The only other deal made Kiiiiw n during the day was Iho release of Pitcher Sam Ross a ji rl (m fielder Eve ret t Ranks ton by the New York A 111 eri cans to the Southern league club of Memphis. Tenn. Committees . from the American and Nat tonal lengues will meet here tomorrow tomor-row for the final adjustment of affairs with the representatives of the Pittsburg, Newark and Brooklyn Fcleral league clubs. 11 ugh I e Jennings announced that Ixfty George of the Columbus club of the American Amer-ican association would nceompu ny the Tigers on their training trip and would probahlv be used to partlv fill the gap in the Pe't rig I club's pilch ing staff. He made no secret of this fact that he was a Iso sea rching for a not her hurler. but failed to find a suitable man. .burnings was dickering with Han How ley. former calcher of the Phillies and for the past lliree years manager of the Montreal club j of the International league. |