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Show I NEW YORK YANKS MAY BE SOLO American League Negotiating for Purchase of Club by Wealthy Brewer. New York. Dec. ju. Although the National and International IeHsruei; adopted several important resolutions at their annual meetings today, the American leacue, represented infer-j mallv In this city by President Sail Johnson and severnl of the club mnc; natps furnished the baseball Bensa-tious Bensa-tious of the day. It wa6 the junior league executive who formallj confirmed the deal which transferred Kddle Collins, the Philadelphia Athletics' star sneond t axeman, from the Philadelphia to the Chicago club, and who stated thnt the American league was nepotiatine for the purchase of the New York club by Colonel Jacob Ruppert, a prom; rent brewer of this city. Thrt deal whereby the White Sox obtained the services of Collins ere ; ;tied a commotion among the mag-i mag-i nf md managers of the various; major and minor league Following closely upon the request for waivers oh Pitchers Bender. Plank and; oomhs. and the Jump o' the first two i pitchers to the Federal league, the! I .apid disintegration of the famous Mack machine stunned even those h closely allied with the business end,; ot th game. 1 President Charles A. Comiskey ofj the Chleaso club, who closed the deal! ( with Collins during the forenoon, re-' re-' used to stare the exact terms of the 1 transaction. He said that he had : igned Collins to a five-year contract, nftor agreeing to pay 'he Philadelphia club a cash sum and giving Connie Mack the right to select one or two I layer.' from the White Sox roste; . I n m another source it was reported that Comiskey gave the Philadelphia club jronon for rolllns' release and agreed to pay the same sum to the second baseman during the next five years. Great for Chicago. The deal was considered an excel leni one from an American league standpoint, since it gives the Chicago club cne of the stars of the game to fill a weak spot in the White Sox lineup at a time when the Federal league club Ifl preparing to wage a hitter contest for Chicago patronage during the season of 1915. Close followers fol-lowers ot baseball In Philadelphia gave it as their opinion that the re-'e.ise re-'e.ise of Collins by Connie Mack was In line with the reported policy of the Philadelphia club to reduce expense to a point In line with the gate receipts re-ceipts and the general American league plan to readjust the strength Of various clubs in the junior organization organ-ization That soch a movement is under way was shown by the premature breaking of the story that President Johnson and other magnates were tiyin to interest new local capitalists In thi New York American league riuh Since the trouble which deve'-nped deve'-nped between Manager Frank Chance rnd the present owners of the club, other American five. During the season sea-son of 1913 the league Magnates have been endeavoring to arrange a new alignment in this city. Colonel Rup-( Rup-( rt was approached through Cincin natl friends and found receptive to a roposition to purchase the New York ;lub franchise. President Frank J , j rfnclpal stockholders are understood I to have placed a value of $500,000 on thpfr holdings. Colonel Ruppert is I at French Lick Springs. Ind.. and his position In the deal could not be as- ertal ed It is understood, however, j that he has offered $400,000 for the j club and agreed to erect a new. stadium stad-ium lor the Yankees if he gets the ; franchise. I President Johnson. While he did not deny that the American league was negotiating with Colonel Ruppert. stated Hint the deal had not been consuremaf ed and might yet fall I through; The name of T. L Huston, la former United States army engineer, engi-neer, who made a fortune In Havana harbor work, was linked with that of Colonel Ruppert in the purchase of the Yankees. The National league magnates Vail-f-u to disclose any similar sensations, but a number of interesting resolutions resolu-tions were adopted at the fir?t meeting meet-ing of the senior organization mau-:ialjs mau-:ialjs in which a pollcv of financial retrenchment was clearly discernible An amendment to the constitution ; was adopted limiting the number of 1 playc-rs to be carried in any club between be-tween the period from May 1 to September Sep-tember 1 to twenty-one At other times the maximum limit was fixed at thirty-five, but last season this fule was suspended, in order to prevent pre-vent the Federal league from obtaining obtain-ing premising players. resolution also was adopted which fixed March 1 as the earliest date upon which a club could report for spring training, but this Is understood under-stood not to cover the individual spring training of veteran pitchers who may desire to work a week or two ahead of the club squad. The league went on record as opposed to barn storming trips after the close of the season. According to Secretary Heydler no teference was made to the proposea extension or the world's series from seen to nine games, the Federal league or the controversy between the Erookiyn and Cincinnati clubs regarding regard-ing the money involved in the Tinker Tink-er deal of last spring |