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BASEBALL SPORTS OF ALL KINDS BOXING And now there may be more bull than ever in basebalL Reports from -New York, appar ently authenticated,' are to the effect that J. Ogden Armour, the packer, is to line up with Charley Weegh man in taking over the Cubs in the peace amalgamation and moving them to the North Side. Armour and Weeghman have been connected in a business way for some time, and the Whale boss, it is be lieved, was unable to swing the com bination deal locally single-handed. The initial expense, buying the West Side franchise and fixing up Charley Murphy, will be very great. Armour has no baseball experience but knows the angles to finance. But he will find out that there are some things he has never heard of before when he goes against a crew of base ball magnates. He can depend on them to teach him a few new polit ical and financial angles. Nothing of a definite nature has developed from the peace confer ences in New York so far. Each side lias been jockeying for position. Each seems to have the foolish idea that the public is going to give a hoot which side has to make concessions and will remember which appears to have lost the most during the war fare. All of which is bunk. If the mag nates are wise to their own inter ests, and want to do what is best for themselves and baseball gener ally, they will drop all talk of victory and forget the nasty things that have been said in the past Only in that way can even a portion of the fan army, alienated from the game by the peculiar tactics of the magnates, be won back. The public is long suffering and easily forgetful. The limit of endur ance has not quite been reached, and if 'the magnates make an honest ef fort to put some real teams in the field for 1916 then much will be for given. And the sooner the political talk is throttled the sooner the pub lic can begin to forget. As a result of a meeting between owners of the National and Amer ican, the national commission will carry on all negotiations for organ ized baseball. Garry Herrmann, Ban Johnson and John Tener have re ceived their instructions. For the Feds, Gilmore, Sinclair and Weeghman will be the arbiters. This will make the negotiating body more compact and it will be better able to do business. A conference between the two wings of baseball will be held today. Another report from New York is to the effect that not more than 20 Federal players will be retained in the big legues, the others going to the minors. And in all this amalga mation talk the dopesters seem to be overlooking outfielders like Zwilling, Flack and Mann of the Whales. Those boys, of course, would be shunted to the minors, and fellows like Pete Kniseley would continue tn draw big league salaries. Oh, yes. There still seems to be a disposition in some quarters to admit the Fed eral ever approximated a major league. And, strange to say, many of the people talking along that tack watched the National league in action in 1915. It is about time that line of talk was dropped, the boards wiped clear and a real effort made to put salt on the tail of the dove of peace. A New York report is to the effect that Roger Bresnahan will be placed at the head of a club in Toledo of the American Ass'n, leaving the local fi&d clear to Joe Tinker. That would satisfy Roger, who has been anxious to get back to his home town for some time. He would be salved with a block of stock. And another report is that Jimmy Callahan expects to win the National league pennant with the Pirates.