| Show Owners E Meet Monday 0 o o 0 o o 0 o o 0 o o 0 o o Problems On Docket Mild Changes In Baseball Anticipated At Chicago Pow Wow Pacific Coast League Question Gets Interest Of All Clubs By Dy GEORGE CHADWICK Special Cs 01 Tc of ot The Tho Standard I Copyright h t 1923 3 CHICAGO Dec Tho 8 8 Tho The that be In baseball from rom coast to coast are marching on Chicago to- to to today day dOY for tho the grand wow pow-wow that starts Monday There will be bo few tew- few fewer er en of ot the tho purely ornamental minor league partners present than If It the meeting had been held helel In New NewYork NewYork York For coming to Chicago Is too much like business and fraught 1 nith Ith too little of the languorous perfume of the tho roaring forties to lure tho the dilettanti But you can be sure that all the real powers power will be presen present t Something like a dozen meetings are scheduled Its It's quite like open open- ing opening the seasons season's oyster The major leagues meet moet independently and then meet in unison I It if not In har liar harmony harmony mony moot Never have ave they boon been In harmony since they elevated elevate Com CO Commissioner l- l missioner Landis from the bench They had to e bar har- harmony har harmony mony fOr tor or a few minutes while sign sign- ing lag nc his big contract but ut some of them bad baa not got as far lar ar as Engle Englewood J oo on the way home homo before they bp- bp beban ban br-ban ban to catechize themselves peco I-e- ly io Iy II tor for what they had done doDO Hut that matters little littie to the 1 abner He ha has his contract The commissioner will wilt submit to the joint session some mild changes confirm more mors strongly find nd with actuary power things which It was presumed he was to loOk after but which In the hurry of the original meeting were nero ere not pop pop- pop erly drafted dratted They base hao no bearing on the leagues league to the ex cx extent tent of ot permitting any of the little fellos to be d desalt dealt alt with In a I Isum sum sum- summary summary summary mary manner It If the commissioner has any In- In Intention intention In Intention of ot pulling pulling the cord cords mor moore taught than they hate hale already ben b en pulled he Is permitting the het to escape the attention of ot o t cry but himself However ever h he may have a II surprise for the 0 Jog men menNo menNo menNo No one ono can tell BIG DIG QUESTION The case eMe of McCarthy who claIms to be president nt of ot the Pa- Pa Pacific Pacific Pa Pacific Coast league and who nho ho will sill III go goto goto goto to mat on the Issue which he thinks overthrew that him him that of ot syndIcate baseball In his ls is likely hikly to get In some Bome way before the gentlemen who vho ho are Interested That brings to mind the meeting nt at Buffalo In 1921 at which Com Corn Commissioner Commissioner missioner Landis attempted to turn the tide toward the draft an and In Inthe inthe Inthe the course of ot his address gently rebuked McCarthy McCarthy merely grinned while the tho com corn commIssioner commissioner missioner Intensified his dramatic delhery cry The mills of the Gods grind slots slots- slow slowly ly but they do grind Politics has upset McCarthy and his league while the contract of the commis commis- commissioner commissioner commissioner bolls boils merrily merrill along for tor three more years The draft is not In but It Is knocking to get back while the man moan who put the tho Pacific Coast league tAn A In t the tho ascendancy n- n nj I is lu luthe the IcUm of plotting and counter counterplotting counterplotting counterplotting plotting and probably n will Iii 11 lose hiS fight to tAn 1 the Pacific Const Coast Pt PI The draft question probably will willbe willbe willbe be the most one ono that comes up In Chicago The minor of the tho higher clas classification classification tion hitherto ha hate hae e been unanimous against It But the California poli poll politicians politicians In operation co with certain tain major league Interests hope to slit the minors apart this time That i Is hy McCarthy came east before the major league ague meetings lie He wanted to see ace how the International International stood If that organIzation pat it will nut have havo the whIp hand hond In the som some other small circuits al aio e not going to rec recede de from their stand The international appears to be fess In- In Inclined In Inclined dined to toward ard the draft than ever Proposals may bernade be made to curtail some hat the e e power ot of the major league as units If It they are e wll wil be a bitter fight for there are some ome gentlemen who are aro Insistent that they do donot donot donot not Intend to hate base the tho affairs of their organization with It may be recommended to the tho major leagues that they mal make their schedule season seison more corn com comP com compact P pact 1 t by clearing UI up the open dates date lIh which the 1923 season stilson wu was sprinkled thus gling git Ing the football season a 0 more open time of ot it In Inthe inthe Inthe the east Ho However ever football doesn t care halt half as much as ns do the news nes newspapers papers Football draws s much bet better better ter than baseball and anel the ness ne s papers know this and like to get ready for it L TRADING I luch talk ha hoa hlll beeri beed heard about nhat hat may happen to players This em embraces braces both trading of players an and l punitive measures against thorn them There are rumors that Un- Un Unsavory Unsavory un unsavory savory hate hl been discos discos- discovered ered Perhaps no more is 11 i n knon I than has been blen known n for some time but there Is a lot more smoke The o objective e which all allba ba baseball is struggling the ex- ex exception ex exception ot of o certain clubs In the American association and the Southern Sothern association Is Now New York The minors arc are regretful that t they ey haen ha t anything worth while to sell New York But the tho majors are lre glad there are no loose minor mtnor league stars and some of the man man- man are on how In the v orld they can manipulate trades go 80 that New York will not get In others ate aie al e wondering how In kingdom come th they y can get a piece of that New York money and ot et retain the good will 1 they need at home borne Before they get through the yan- yan yankees Yan Yankees kees and Giants wilt will be In fair fall trim to win their fourth champion champion- championship championship championship ship In succession |
