| Show CONSOLIDATION IS 18 NOT PROBABLE Little Thought of Organizing a 0 Twelve Club League STOllY DENIED MANY HUES rl lES Humor started l i ii e lr PusI t tun John Jule semi un held lIh rest at 01 because Johnson Jahnson of oC th time the American league I happened to hold c r n conference with President Bemman of ol the Cincinnati club last In t week It win taken fur for granted that i t Q scheme wise ni afoot to consolidate the two tuo leagues Into Inti ono one 12 club and thus Ihu it repent Jent the monumental blunder the National league amid un l old American association made In III Jn In Indianapolis In Jn II 91 pays as the Philadelphia Inquirer Thin The fact that thai Mr Johnson I refused to dla cuss CUDS the matter butter after he had reached 1 Is regarded by b many with whom hoiu the wish Is rather father to the thought as at n sort of ot verification of ot the rumor liter Ver since tho the expansion movement ol of the American league was waa va begun up to tu the present time Mr Johnson haw has had hod o n cheerful habit of or permitting the reporters report tin ers to do th time the gue guessing It did him no nu Im harm i in and an l Cr hom turn the time very 01 object he had In view ew the accomplishment of which might haw have been Leen prevented by L premature publics publication tion Mr Ir Johnson went to for the tho purpose e of conferring with Mr Hermann JI on the tile Mr ir fall fair That he lie other ather baseball affairs 1 Is likely and amid that the tho proposition to merge the two organisations wan wall talked about H in I not nat unlikely unlike The Nn magnates tried to talk him hint Into that for Cor two days at nt the CincInnati meeting at nt which which the pence peace compact tins as signed But Hut that the proposition got any uny further than the talk stage In Is poppycock Every beery by the American against con at Cincinnati is Just as us Bound sound today as 01 it won was then One argument advanced ad by b the 1111 friends of or Is the feet fart that sortie come clubs are money olley Of or cour C course lurBe e they the theare are There Therl have hl always been clubs in iii inthe Inthe the i past fl t that have ha lost money and there will 11 be Ue club t that nt will wll IntI money But li le the Idea A R guar var antee n 1111 I loser The Na Nn National lentil league trial it for tor eight years eRrs and then at et a great cost coat bought hought out four clubs cluba and returned to ta the only rational circuit club climbs I ubi And A 1111 It If another INuit circuit WM formed formal lilt his hisTory Tory tOI would inevitably repeat Itself About the sift stae of af it IR is the clubs of the two to big ld le su B have not yet et haul had the opportunity to profit by the Cincin Cinelli Cincinnati nati pence peace aa Many Mall of ot the clubs alu are lite tied up u with extended con comm contracts tracts at IL fancy fanc price They The sin flIt paying WAt ter end and ors ai al on a peace l footing With fth one ant or ar two lx the clubs club of or both bolh leagues are arc paying out more than their warrants the business gets Ket tl down to u a 1 normal bill belie when t the owners owner da lIo not promise t lu pay payout payout out more thin then they can take In III nt the gates there theta Kill 11 be little or no Just Justin Id rattan cation for far the th agitation Hut but Jut In spite pitt of or the strung the scheme am amIn AI acid I IIII In III of oC the tact fact that thiu Putnam of ot the National Inn has been lIton od al in press two or ar three times till this week tK k that hat there was Wu nl to lately no hD foundation for the th rumor there theN still lUll SIR 11 to tu tie lee many In m the Nit east amid tome Mine in the west weal here her who believe IJ lIe that the of ot nil the talk and s will III tit be tita u tt II i 1 12 club league |
