The majority directors of the Amer
ican League, Ruppert of New York,
Comiskey of Chicago and Frazee of
Boston, in session at the Hotel Bilt
more yesterday, issued a call for the
annual meeting of the hoard of direc
tors to be held at the Biltmore, New
York, at 10 o'clock a. m. on Decem
ber 10, 1919, and for the annual
meeting of the' American League at
the same place at 12 o'clock noon on
December 10.
With one or two exceptions the
American League always has held its
annual meeting at Chicago, following
a call by Ban Johnson .president of
the circuit. Johnson, it is believed,
will in the near future issue the reg
ular call for the annual meeting in
Chicago,- when It will be up to the
American League club owners to de
cide for themselves whether they in
tend to attend Johnson's meeting or
come to the meeting of the directorate
at New York.
In the event that the American
League club owners take sides the
way they have been doing it means
that the Cleveland, St. Louis, Detroit,
Philadelphia and Washington clubs
will meet in Chicago, while New York,
Boston and Chicago will meet in New
York. Lieut.-Col. Huston of the Yan
kees, however, expressed the opinion
that sufficient club owners would come
to the. New York meeting to hold a
quorum.
