Show FANS DONT DONIT WANT all A BASEBALL WAR ROW OF THE MAGNATES NOT AP PROVED BY PATRONS OF THE GAME CLEAN SPORT THEIR DEMAND ban johnson looms ap up as about the biggest man connected with na dional pastime that new york signal tipping case baseball tana fans all over the country want to see the magnates settle their differences and get down to business of strengthening their teams for 1910 the average tan fan diesu doesn t care cheth er john heydler or john ward Is pres ident of the national league what the enthusiast wants Is for his favor ite team to have the best players it can get and when the good old sum mer time comes for those players to put up the fastest article of base baseball brall they can however the recent muddle which was threshed out in new york was interesting to the fans in a way tor for it threatened the greatest baseball war in the history off the national game that such a thing may yet result Is not impossible the magnates of the big leagues know the patrons of the game don I 1 want to see a fight the enthusiasts who support the great pastime with their money want clean sport and they will not stand for any throat cutting tricks from the magnate magnates s standpoint the game of baseball Is a business proposition it Is impossible for any person to point out one man who is at the head bead of a club that Is there simply for his love of baseball there Is lots of money in baseball even hailend tall benj teams making fortunes for their owners and the magnates know it Is not policy tor for them to kill the goose that lays the golden egg the recent battle in new york de one thing and that Is that ban johnson president of the amer lean ican league Is about the biggest man in baseball johnson was not only the power behind the throne in his own organization but he was busy with the affairs of the Nati national league he and charles W murphy president of the chicago cubs have been ene mies for some time when murphy started out to get the scalp of heyd ler because the national league pres ident backed up umpire klem klein who fired eve s chance and from the labor day game in pitts burg johnson at once went to the rescue of heydler this added fuel to the fire between the cub boss and the american league mogul and the battle waxed warm murphy dared johnson to make known the name of the man higher up who was con necked with the umpire bribing scan dal in new york and johnson laughed at him when it was announced that the philadelphia national league team had been sold and the report was cir that murphy was in the deal johnson likewise took a chance to hurl a shot at his top fop the american league adopted a schedule of games the same as played last season murphy of the chicago cubs wanted both leagues to agree to a game schedule and in Ws 1 was blocked by johnson the I 1 f american also adopted a provision which will prevent a club carrying me more re than 35 men at any time and from may I 1 to august I 1 the numer number must not exceed 25 the question of eliminating spikes has been left to president johnson and charles corn coin iskey of the chicago club the national commission applied a nice coat of to the new yankees signal tipping case it exonerated the club but adopted reso that left the matter anex the resolutions follow whereas charges have been print ed in the public press to the effect that during the last season a sign bureau was operated on the grounds of the new york american league ball club and whereas the board of directors of the american league has considered carefully the evidence before it of the existence of such a bureau there fore be it resolved that in the opinion of the ai board the new york club is tree free from all complicity in such tipping affair and be it further resolved that it Is the sense of yie the board that any manager or official proven guilty of operating a sign tip ping bureau should be barred from baseball for all time the national commission disposed of the torrey and asmussen cases caces in the for former riler a decision was made not to reopen the case which confirms the award previously made of torrey of the chicago logan squares to the club that was contested by president kinsella of the spring field three eyes league club on the ground that torrey belonged to him by contract and that the new york national league club was interested because it had purchased torrey s services from kinsella for a price said to have bee been 4 catal er tom asmussen whose re instatement was made some days ago now will become a member of the boston nationals la in all probability as soon as it can draft player from eau claire the th commission having decided that the title rested with the wisconsin team but that he was sub eject to draft it was asmussen a at tempt to play with the doves a couple of years ago that led his disability one of many deals rumored proved true that was the purchase by the pittsburg club of first baseman flynn of the st paul team for a con of 4 ahai tha Is said to presage the departure of B 11 abstein from the the ranks of 0 the world worlds s cham chain in the spring if the new player comes up to expectations chicago led the american league teams the ile past season 1 in fielding ac c cording to the official averages an bounced by president johnson the white sox pox stood with philadel phia next at the champions oi of the league detroit were third at in the pitchers game percentages mullin of detroit led with a per of he ile won 29 and only lost eight games cicotte of boston was second at winning 13 and losing five smith was the best ol 01 the sox pitchers at he ile stood twelfth in the list walsh wao wm thir thin at isbell of the sox led the first basemen of the league in fielding with and purtell of the locals was at the top of the second basemen with of the third basemen tannehill Tanne hlll was fourth at parents of chicago and miller of Washington and 1000 among the fix fiel ers and hahn was fourtin fourth with sutor suter a sox pitcher had 1000 among the pitchers 1 at p |