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Show NAVIN MAKES EFFORT TO RESTORE PEACE Ni:V YORK, Per. $. Colonel T. T,. Huston, one of 11 10 owners of tho Now Vnrk AtntTlfans, admit (.cj toniyht that ' ; --lull owners oppo.in Kan Jolinon, -ski irit of 1 1 1 r- leaur-, were approached lii work by Prank Navin, president of l lietroit -lub, with a view to bringing ;il"i!it pearn in 1 1 ic American league. ' a ' i 1 1 first a pp roach ed Ed Ba r row, manager ot" the Bowton club, on a, deal." said i 'olonol Huston, "and after that had M-voral conferenes with Harry Fraaee, nv'sklent of the Boston club. Frazee nsk.-d mi! whrther T would meet Navin l.isi Sunday morning, and 1 said 1 had no objert tuns. ! 'Though neither of us had power to j .'pn-sent the op posing factions, we had ' :in informal talk of an hour, in which j in made a st ron a rpument for the - -Ma hlishineut of pca- e in our league. I i old him we would not yield from our Maud, but T believe T convinced him that the meeting could be called and that any Hireling held in Chicago would bo an( illegal one. Mr. Navin took a train for Chh'iiu'O shortly after our conference. "We are glad, of course, at the decision of t lie othrr clubs to come here in re-MMinse re-MMinse to our rail for a meeting. Wc take no a rbi I rnry si and. but wo are eon- iuc''d that' conditions of the past must n.t bo repeated and that hereafter no "inn can have the arbitrary position in llie lea i: tic. which was taken by Mr. John-sou John-sou before the Mays eas." |