Show U UTAH i H ARRANGES RR NG YEAR TWO YE R F FOOTBALL 1 C CO CONTRACT WIT WITH WIT H CREIGHTON CREIGHTON J Ui U I it Every ery American League i Club Seeking Pitchers 0 f 1 W N National Circuit Is Busy I. I L' L Schedule i Drafting it f il f for 1927 I ft It r r s NEW v EW YOJU Dec 14 AP Th AI-Th Th I I chief business for the annual meeting fleeting of their National league eague to today to- to day clay was the gt fUng of the sched sched- to-I to ule for I r next season next K The The already a to n a y longer certain to decide to th the first wee week It in iny y October as th date In 1927 The rhe season ended the last Week In S September year Commissioner Commission Commission- er ff L Landis f favors vors the prolongation I. I since sinco the sho short short- t. t season failed to tor i. i r bring about date for the world series one club com com- j. the schedule on time Ti some So ne magnates fa favored asking Commissioner LandIs fo to increase y the of ot the advisory fr fr council of the the major I jor leagues wIlch I iI 4 Jt hAs lihs functioned d but rarely In la the thelAst fl lAst lAt few yeas years ea s lJ The practice r clubs maintaining t f farms In ln minor leagues agues despite the raft halt system designed deigned le to give each t team arn am an equa equal chance hance at t J i material possibly was mat another ter for the leagues league's attention Barney Bar I 1 ney ey y Dreyfuss Pittsburg ow has has has I Declared the tle arrangement hypo critical oie t Am m lone alone controlled r sI minor league n V clubs The meeting Is a two two- two day a h f Tomorrow the magnates magnates will le ve for Chicago to attend a Joint joint Ing with the American league mal I M i There There was much dickering 1 1 11 y- y I Carding possible trades Billy Ter Te Terr TeE E. E 14 r ry first baseman of the Giants i is' is Hi I reported ported r t to be he slat stated slated d for the thet Bo Bog t ton Brayes in exchange for fOl Jon Joo Genewich pitcher Dave Da ve Bancroft y manager of ot the Bra Yes said ho he would r swap but he doubted that R j tanager Manager McGraw McCraw o ot the Giants would be pe interested Th The B Braves ves would like lkc two t infielders infielders' an d ar a catcher from Sa Sant f t Claus Ba Bancroft jc 1 said v 1 Donie Donle Bush Pittsburgh s 's newman newman- y 1 1 ager agel seeks It in Infielder lelder and utility c Manager n Robinson binon of Brooklyn f lias Jias' both his his- A veteran outfielder Ck 7 Wheat and Burleigh arim Grimes Crimes s. s pitcher pitch r on tile block biocic but their high salaries arles negotiations 1 lanager Stuffy o of ot Phila- Phila t would lIk like two in infielders fielders y two iwo pitchers an 1 n w outfielder f Brooklyn has Released Released- el Dick Dick- Cox outfielder to the Los Iros club 4 of ot the Pacific Coast league as part partI I payment for or Arnold Statz who came to the Robins ln-a ln recent deal Cox c- wj or the st t t t tp vi h J Umpire to toBe Be Selected to Fill Shoes of Moriarty CHICAGO CHICAGo Dec 14 AP A AV-A A manager manager manager man man- ager with a corps of ot class high pitchers to sell probably could make a a. fortune at the gathering of AmerIcan American Amer Anier- ican league pilots and lub owners opening tod today r Virtually er e every manager here admits ne on could use a dependable The prosaic business of ot the league presidents today and tomorrow was little more than a stage s setting with the m machinations of the managers managers managers man man- agers having spotlight attention Virtually all the league chiefs had before them was the perfunctory of ot the 1926 pennant to the New York Yankees Yanke s selection or an un umpire to Moriarty now manager manager of the Detroit Tigers decision on the length of the league schedule and selection of a new neu board beard of ot directors American league sentiment ors favors the long seasOnS season n President Ban Johnson has felt In the past that thal baseball should be out of the way for f football but he now Is re ready reddy dy to fall in with the general opinion that the season should run into October to enable completion of the ule without a cluster of lat late d dou- dou u- u bleh aders Five new managers ar art are hOping tp obtain here the talent they n need ed forthe for fot Oi the 1927 campaign George GeorgeI Moriarty I Ty Cobbs Cobb's SUccessor successor successor suc SUc- cessor at Detroit said he Ite would take nineteen pitchers South next spring Of the quintet rt f f ll new V team leaders Headers Moriarty Morl a ap apparently Hently has the least player worries Unlike the Cleveland Indians WI wio 1 find a hole in center field center field because pt pf of Tris Speakers Speaker's departure the Tigers are arc weil veil sa satisfied with their Outfield Cob Cobb like Jie Speaker was Was' center fielder bu but the against his departure by grooming a or whereas tho tho ey eagle o oil of the In Indians Indians In- In n diane left a It a. a gap l which l the thew new manager Jacl Jack McAllester l admits h he is hard pre pressed sed to fill 1111 Dan the St St. Louis St.-Louis Louis Drowns Browns spent considerable time yesterday with Miller Milli his Hugg-his of or orthe the Yankees Howley has said zid he would I keep Ge George rge but hut there are ale reports that Marty McManus I be he traded may wants a good pitcher Ray Schalk In his lila first attempt a at t managing the White Sox seeks a second baseman to replace leplace Eddie Colins |