Show ANNUAL REPORT is iS f MADE ADE PUBLIC CHICAGO Nov 16 Secretary Secretary J. J H. H Farrell of the National Association of Baseball Leagues read his report when that organization met in annual session here yesterday Otherwise the association was not particularly engaged leaving a amass amass amass mass of ot routine to the board of tion The national outfit was scheduled to begin business at noon No baseball me meeting Ung in history however was ever known to begin at the hour specified and no traditions were shattered today Darkness s had bad fallen when the meeting was called to order Mr 1 Farrell reported report report- ed and adjournment was taken until to to- to morrow morro NIn N In his statement tho the secretary said Fifty league organizations embracing cities clUes and towns in Iii the United States I qualified for membership Eight hundred and nine fifty-nine players were suspended Two hundred and two sixty-two players were reinstated Number of or players drafted by the National league 77 number drafted rafted by American league 68 number drafted b by American association Total amount received through tills office for tor drafted players and ironey oney re refunded refunded refunded re- re funded on debts disallowed National league American league National Baseball Leagues While th the paramount question ion of classification clas clas- was a general matter of Informal Informal informal mal discussion in the crowded lobbies nothing of ot a definite nature transpired It was hinted that developments might be expected at the night session of the board of ot arbitration It was 9 o'clock before the board resumed its Although the Western league was given to understand yesterday by the national board of arbitration that it would not consent at this time to retire the tho league from class A to class B. B members of the Western Vestern league were not entirely at their case ease The Tho Eastern league and the American association seek peek to be put into a class by themselves class themselves class AA This the others others' are fighting John Holland of th St St. Joseph Western West West- ern n league club announced his purchase of either First Baseman Bordon Borden or Mullen 1 and Collins and Cooper of or the Chicago American league team following a draft by Comiskey of First Baseman Jones and Shortstop Corhan |