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Show RECALLS PLANNING AMERICAN LEAGUE. New York, June 22. Byron Johnson, president of the American league, who was here the other day, was In a reminiscent remi-niscent mood. He recalled the time back in 1896 when he was a baseball reporter for a Cincinnati paper and attended at-tended the league meetings in this city.. Johnson and Comiskey, then ma'nager of the Cincinnati team, were close friends and when time hung heavy on their hands they laid the plans for a big league with visions of great wealth. The National league magnates at first laughed at them, but things are different now. Johnson is the biggest man in organized baseball politics, while Comiskey is worth a million, made out of the Chicago White Sox. As a newspaper writer Johnson did not confine himself to baseball. He covered big fights, Including In-cluding the Sullivan-Corbelt battle at New Orleans, and also wrote a famous story of a lynching bee In old Ken-tuck'. |