Tommy McCarthy, of Boston, was said to be somewhere on the road, though Quinn held his proxy, and Col.

Whitside of Louisville was on hand to represent the Falls City in case it should be taken into the fold.
Numerous telegrams failed to locate Navin of Detroit, and as the Louisville people proved that they had the necessary backing it was finally decided to take them in.

Detroit's assurance that everything was lovely there came too late, Navin not returning home until after the meeting was over, while McCarthy of Boston did not materialize until after the meeting had adjourned.
A permanent organization was finally effected and officers elected as follows: President, A.C.Anson, Chicago; Secretary-Treasurer, Phil Peterson, Baltimore; Directors, C.S.Havenor, Milwaukee; Geo.

D.Shaefer, St.
Louis; W.J.Gilmore, Philadelphia; it being left for Boston to name a member of the Board at a later date.
Richter had come to the meeting firmly convinced that the office of Secretary-Treasurer was to be his for the asking, and he was decidedly put out when turned down, and was disposed to be decidedly ugly.

That he had not gotten over it for some time afterward was shown by the attitude of his paper, which indulged in indiscriminate abuse of every one who failed to agree with him.
After the adoption of a constitution and by-laws the meeting finally adjourned, though not until McGraw and Peterson had been appointed a committee to look into the standing of Philadelphia and to select an eighth city in the East, the seven cities making up the circuit at that time being Chicago, St.Louis, Milwaukee and Louisville in the West, and Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia in the East.
It was also decided to open the playing season on April 16, the matter of arranging a schedule being left in my hands.