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Show I SALE OF YANKS HANGING FIRE Farrell's $450,000 Figures Fifty Thousand Above What Ruppert Is Willing Will-ing to Pay. pw Vork. Dec. 9. In Bbarp con-krast con-krast to the .sensational developments nf vesterdav, the annual meetings of the" National and Internauonal leagues failed to produce more than routine announcements today. Even th deals planned by the merican league represented b Prcs-dent Prcs-dent Ban Johnson and several club owners, hung fire and rumors 6up-j 6up-j lanted facts President JohnBon stated late 'o night that there were no develop-nents develop-nents in tho proposed rhanm of own-ership own-ership of thr- New York American ' ieagne club, but he was in private conference during the daj with Frank J. Farrell, the present executive oi the club, and representatives of the New York National leaeue club. It was stated an agreement had been reached whereby the local American league team would be permitted to play at the Polo grounds during 1916 bind possibly 1916 This agreement removed another obstacle In the way of completing the transfer of the club and it appears that the question of the price to be paid is the one detail to hp arranged. That this difference ot" opinion between be-tween Farrell and f'olonc-1 Jacob Ruppert, Rup-pert, the prospective purchaser, may cause the deal to fall through, was indleaed by a remark rnado by Johnson John-son tonight. "President Farrell." he said, "has named his price, but Colouel Ruppert has not seen fit as yet to meet it." Difference of $50,000. It was reported that Farrell had offered of-fered to sell his control for $450,000, which, was 50,000 less than his original orig-inal figure, bur the new iaen that Johnson was endeavorine to enlist in the Hub stood on their first offer of SOfl, 000 During the evening the Americau league president denied a str.ry from Philadelphia that the Atn-lctics Atn-lctics franchise had been sold to a new group of capitalists President lohn K Tener said the National league magnates spent the vhole afternoon in n d;6eusslon regarding re-garding the waiver rule and better co-operation between the league clubs. of a plea by Julius Fleischmann of me Cincinnati club for greater har-,uouv har-,uouv among the club owners and Managers. It was pointed out that th stronger clubs did not help tne K-eakei bv turning over to them tne Haycr.; they could not use themselves them-selves s a result a resolution was Introduced that once waivers were BBked on a player they could not be withdrawn This resolution met with almost unantmon! lavor and Is expected to be parsed at the meeting tomorrow. Qairj Herrmann of Cincinnati was isketi to explain the extent of hh peace negotiation with Charles Weeghman of the Federal league which he undertook recently in a irlvate capacity He detailed the re-cult re-cult oi his conferences which developed devel-oped nothing new and no actiou was taken bv the magnates. To Settle Tinker Case. President Tener announced that the conlrovers between Brooklyn and incinnati relative to the money paid by Brooklyn for the release of Joe Tinker last spring would be amicably settled bv Charles Kbbcts and Garry Herrmann and would not be discussed ;urthcr by the league. F3bbet5 said later lhat conditions in baseball were such that the matter of a lew thousand thou-sand dollars must not be permitted to disrupt harmony anions the magnates mag-nates The national commission also ad journed its meeting late tonight with the announcement thai it would convene con-vene again tomorrow, as did the International In-ternational league earlier in the day The possible trausfer of the minor league franchises from Jersey Cily and Baltimore to Syracuse and Richmond Rich-mond still held the attention of both bodies fiut there was no official statement, state-ment, although it was understood that the fictional commission was favorably favor-ably disposed toward the proposed move |