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Show President Johnson Says Expenses Ex-penses Must Be Cut Down Ratify Sale of Boston Club. Chicago, Dec. 13. Ratification of the sale of the Boston club, curtailment curtail-ment of . players' salaries, and adoption adop-tion of legislation providing for punishment pun-ishment to players who permit the use of their name in writing newspaper stories on world's series games are the important questions to be considered consid-ered at a meeting of the American league which opens here tomorrow. Economy will be urged by President Johnson, who asserted tonight that the game had been conducted on an extravagant basis and every expense, including salaries, must be curtailed. I : Players offered high salaried contracts r 1 li I F I II IJJU I 1111,1 HUkJ to retain them during the war with the Federal league must expect a reduction, re-duction, Johnson said. President Johnson also is determined determin-ed to stop the practice of players writing for newspapers or permitting the use of their names in connection with these stories. He plans to offer a resolution providing for severe punishment pun-ishment for violation of the rule. Will Ratify Sale . of Sox. The sale of the Boston club to H. H. Frazee and Hugh J. Ward of New York will be ratified withouto pposi-tion, pposi-tion, it was said. Frazee announced that he hoped to retain the services of William Carrigan as manager and i was prepared to make him every possible pos-sible financial inducement. In the event that Carrigan could not be induced to return, Frazee said that "There are one or two players on the Boston club who might make good managers." Jack Barry, second ' baseman, and Outfielder Hooper wore mentioned in this connection. '. Practically every club owner in the league was here tonight for the meeting. meet-ing. Draft Rule to Come Up. Committees representing the three Class AA and the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs will appear before the American league club owners to appeal for their consent con-sent to the elimination of tho draft rule and the creation of a new board to consider all minor league questions. The same appeal was made to the National Na-tional league at its meeting in New i'ork. President Baum of tho Pacific I Coast league, Barrows of the International Interna-tional and Tnomas Hickey, president-sleet president-sleet of the American association, composed a committee representing :he three leagues. |