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Show BASEBALL 11 i GOES TGFlNiSLi, SAYS JOHNSON I ;k-EaiV States New Clubs Will Take Places of Those Seceding KANSAS CITY. Mo., No 'J. War to a finish was declared here today ! by I'rcnident 13. B Johnson of the An i rlcan league, and his five "loyal" I club owners in the fight against the ! formation i n-w twelve-club league. 1 Preside Johnson declared that ' i lui.s would he established in Chi- cagO, r.oston and New Arork next sea-, sea-, .-hi to take the places of the clubs that have Joined the "New National league." j ' We are prepared to give them all of tho battle th want.' President Johnson said "The American league is going about Its busbiteu ami win have clubs In the eight cities, which have composed Its circuit for years. We will nut h u k up for .1 second. War, in my Judgment, Is the best I cleaner. I am for It as I believe it I will clean up baseball Ilka It cleans I up ever thing else. What the game ' really needs Is to he cleansed of some : of its undesirable club owners, who have been a detriment because they ! openly allowed gambling In theli base-j base-j ball parks. "The National league never had I any stomach for a fight It In an Impossible Im-possible organization," he continued ( "Its politics ruined the old national commission because John K. Tenor, j the former league president, could not get aioim with Chairman Herrmann of the COmmlSf ion "The five clubs in the American .league which remained mc are the on?y decent element In the major 1 leagues They have fought with me to stamp out the gambling evil. I got ! no asslstuncc whatever from the I others." oo |