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Show NO UREASE IN mm LIMIT ' Coast League Baseball Clubs H to Adhere to $4500 Month- H ly Limit or Pay Fine. H H j San Francisco, Feb. 2. Without the H . sign of a clash, minus even a sbow-l H down, four of the coast league direc- M , tors who, with their proxies, reprc- H sented the entire organization, have M decided against the innovations that H come by way of suggestions from the B southern clubs. H There will be no increase in the H salary limit, by virtue of the absence H S of favorable action taken this after- H noon at the special meeting convened H 8 at the St. Francis hotel, and managers m i are hereby warned that It will be V necessary for them to keep their clubs H 0 strictly to the $4500 monthly limit or f fa suffer the consequences which in- M jd elude a fine of $100 per day for viola- B f Salt Lake and Portland also won H f their fight against the proposition put H ': forward by Ham Patterson of the m I Vernon club to require those clubs to B , Play seven games a week on their H home grounds. This scheme, as well Hfi r as the salary limit fight, didn't come Hi to a vote and the schedule will be in K no way disturbed, Even the heralded long distance B ft controversy between Henry Berry and H Walter McCrcdie was not conceded H the importanco of being declared an H issue. In short, the coast league as a body refused to take Walter Mc-Crodie Mc-Crodie or his utterances seriously and concluded that It would not be at all necessary to Investigate the so-called charges of syndicate baseball. base-ball. It was the concensus of opinion that Berry's skirts are clean, so far as his business dealings with the two southern clubs are concerned, and that Judge McCredie's disavowal of what the dispatches claimed "Walter McCredie stated Is quite sufficient. Henry Berry, notwithstanding this, uttered a few challenges on the floor of the league meeting, but he will be permitted to fight it out by the telegraph tele-graph or per Uncle Sam's postoffice department. The salary limit scheme was beaten before it fairly got a good start. President Frank Murphy of Salt Lake came to the meeting entirely to lend his support to Frank Leavitt and Jack Cook, who otherwise would have stood the brunt of the burden alone. With McCredie's proxy in the hands of Leavitt, this gave the "noes" a Bafe margin against a jump to $5000 for monthly team expenses. |