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Show SHORT SEASON ;,.F0BJPL Casting Out of Pirates-Reds Pirates-Reds Game Causes Rumpus, NEW, YORK, July 17. The retention of the 140eame schedule, announced the beginning of the season, was decided upon at a meeting of the National league in this city today. Several club owners recently suggested lengthening the playing season to 154 games as In past years. Several other subjects of midseason Importance Im-portance -were discussed and decisions reached, including a unanimous vote in favor of the recently revised rules for the division of the world's series proceeds as proposed by the national commission. If the American league takes similar action, ac-tion, the division of the players' pool next October will be as follows: Seventy-five per cent of the pool to be divided, 60 per cent to the winners and 40 per cent to the losers, with the remaining 25 per cent of the pool divided among the players of the second and third teams of the two leagues. A com m u n I ca t Ion f pom the mi n or leagues' organization was received and discussed, and it was unanimously resolved re-solved not to enter into any formal agreement agree-ment with the minors unless the right of the major leagues to draw players from the minors was included. At a subsequent meeting of the board of directors of the league it was decided to expunge from the record the second game of July 6 between Pittsburg adn Cincinnati, and the teams were ordered to replay the contest July 27, or, in case of postponement, July 28 or Augus 31. Attention was called, to this contest by the New York club, which alleged a violation of the league constitution on the ground that the game was called early in order that Pittsburg might catch a train, when there were later trains which would have carried the team to its next destination after a full nine-Inning contest con-test had been played. Garry Is Surprised. CINCINNATI, July 17. August Herrmann, Herr-mann, president of the Cincinnati baseball j club, was astounded when informed today to-day that at a meeting of the hoard of di- ! rectors of the National league the second 1 game with Pittsburg on July 6 had been ordered expunged from the records. "To begin with," said air. Herrmann, "the board of directors has nothing to do with the matter. This protest or complaint com-plaint must be decided solely by the president presi-dent of the league, under section H of the constitution. "What astounds me most,'.' continued Mr. Herrmann, "is the fact that this decision de-cision was rendered contrary to the constitution, con-stitution, which states plainly that the president shall decide the case after receiving re-ceiving an answer from the club against which a complaint is filed, and also states ' plainly that this club shall have five i days after receiving notice of the com-i com-i plaint in which to answer. I received I notice of the complaint from President Heydler when I arrived home last Tuesday, Tues-day, and T sent in the Cincinnati club's answer this morning. 1 cannot conceive of President Heydler deciding this case without hearing the Cincinnati side of it, as nrovided in the constitution." Mr. Herrmann has sent the following letter b ear t n g upon .the case to Jo h n A . Heydler, president of the National league: "I am in receipt of your recent letter, submitting copies of the papers filed with you by the New York National league club. "I respectfully submit that such game was called by the umpire in chief whe officiated on that occasion, undur and ir compliance with an arrangement betweer I the contending clubs, due announcement I of whirh was made to the public prior tc I the commencement of play, thereby im-1 im-1 parting official sanction to the termina- tfon nf the game a t the stage set by both the clubs engaged in it. "It is respectfully submitetd that under these circumstances no other club than those which participated in that game Is interested or lias any concern or just complaint. It Is further represented that. In view of the present position of the New York and Cincinnati clubs In the pennant race at this stage, Ihe protest of the New York club is as selfish and unsportsmanlike unsportsman-like as it is unwarranted. "It is conceded that the Cincinnati club could have reached Boston by a later train in time to fill its next scheduled assignment, but it was regarded as advisable ad-visable that the players of its team should reach Boston earlier than the morning of the first scheduled game in the Boston 1 series, so that they could be in better condition for play. , "The Cincinnati club protests against ; the elimination of the game from the records, should the agreement between i the participating clubs be declared invalid, j and insists that if the action of the um-1 um-1 pire in charge in calling such game at the close of the sixth inning be dedared un-i un-i warranted, then and in that case, the j participal ing clubs should be rAquired to ivsume play for the completion of the i game with the lineup of the competing clubs as .nearly the same as In the preceding pre-ceding innings as possible and that the : score at the close should include the two : runs made by the Cincinnati ciub before I the termination of play in accordance j with the umpire's directions.' |