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Show Kansas City Chosen As 1929 Baseball j Convention Center .SPRINGFIELD Mass., Nov. 14.-With 14.-With the choice of Kansas City, Mo., as ihe 1920 convention clt and the transaction of considerable minor business bus-iness the annual meeting of the N'a tional Association of Professional Baseball Clubs closed yesterday. E W. Diekerson. spoiling editor of the Grand Rapids (Mich ) Herald, elected Class B member of the nafionn! board of arbitration. A. H Tlerney. president of the Western lesigue, was advanced to Class a membership on 'he board. A ruling was put through regarding liens on baseball territory with the! result that liens m?.y be oxercisrj for' only three eases: Unpaid players' salaries, debts due one club to an-other, an-other, and nonpavment of dues to ihe national association. A distant feeling of relief was evinced by the minor league leaders today at having put several of the larger problems behind them This Is I particularly true as regards ihe vexed questions of renewing relations with' the major leagues. The situation has! been highly unsatisfactory during t he i last year and in naming a committee to take up this matter the minors have! put themselves in a receptive position1 and left the next step to the majors ' This question of resuming a national agreement includes the draft problem, which as it has worked out. in the last ear Lhe minors feel has been dis tinetiy to i heir disadvantage. Awards of the national arbitration' board announced today were: Virginia league, raised from class C: to class B rating. Services of Lester Stevenson, claim ! ed by Saskatoon of Western Canada league Minneapolis of American asso biation, and ouston of Texas leacrue, av.ai. led to Saskatoon. nfi . |