Show ASSOCIATION AND ANDI I EAStERN Will ASK ASI fOR lilG RATING Demand Will ViII B Be Withheld Until Next Y Year ar Two Form Combination I CHICAGO CHIC Nov XO 22 Ignoring of reQuests re- re Quests guests made b by the American association tion at previous lous m meetings Of the thC National Nation Nation- al It Aso Association of Professional ball Bast-ball Clubs explains the failure of the growing I minors to lo have ha an official lea league uc l representative pr at tho the recent nt gathering of the 1 big baseball commission in Chicago President Thomas ton of th I American association yesterday rda offered a 3 alight alight JI light hl on the disinterested attitude of t the Uw lC a association toward the tile national body bod The surprise of or the annual meeting last w week ek was the failure of the American association to oven even put a request for th the which It would raise the or organization or- or and the tho Eastern league Into a class Ilass hy by themselves to bo rated as A. A A. A This had b been en given gl out as one of th point points which would surely bring up o 0 heated tight light during the course of this gathering The threatened move mon did ld not nOl materialize howe however r. r for foe the simple reason reason rea rea- son on that the association magnates r re regarded i a request as hopeless and preferred pre pre- erred to wait x I Th The willingness to l remain under the f same ame classification for another year ear at at least is explained b by t the he fact that ne nc next I full fall the national agreement under which the minor league clubs operate expires I It was intimated yesterday b by tle American Amerlean Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican association head that the respective club owners would consider a long time in 1911 before entering another l' l compact under th present arrangement Xo No definite line of attack ha has been heeti mapped out as aset yet et but Indications point toward one thi thing thing thing-a g-a g a combination Uon of the Eastern league and association In a demand for a raise in the classification tion lion lists |