Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1920 — AMERICAN LEAGUE LIKELY TO BE DISSOLVED [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN LEAGUE LIKELY TO BE DISSOLVED

A baseball war which probably means the dissolving of the American League and the formation of a 12-club National League is now on in Chicago, Boston, New York and Chicago being the clubs which are likely to puff away from the younger organization and go to the senior organization. The wreck of the American League, if present plana pan out, will be due to the three-cornered fight which has been waged on Byron Bancroft Johnson for the past several months by the recalcitrant dub owners of the American, Comiskey, of Chicago; Huston, of New York; and Frazee, of Boston. The three magnates demanded that Johnson resign, which he refused to do. The remaining five clubs of the league stood behind Johnson, which is responsible for the break. The recent baseball scandal along with the present eruption places the game in a delicate situation and it is feared that the game cannot survive unless harmony is instilled into the ranks of the club owners during the present conference.