The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-13

Garry Hermann President of the Gin
cinnati Baseball Club of the National
League, Who Threatens to Jump to
the American Along with Barney
Champions, II John Ward Is Elected
President of the National League at
Today's Meeting.
Herrmann's friend also said that if
Ward were elected Cincinnati and
Pittsburg would be in a ten club cir
cult for the first year in the American
league. After one season of this the
league would be changed again to an
eight club circuit, Detroit and some
other city being handed over to the
American association.
New York, Dec. 13-With the ar
rival of President Ban Johnson of the
American league in New York today
the baseball public will soon learn
whether the junior leagues opposition
to the election OF Johnson Montgom-
cry Ward to the presidency of the Ma
tional league will cause split in the
peaceful relations between the two
bodies.
johnson has said that he is against
Wards election to the presidency of
the National league and against the
reported attempt of John T. Brush and
Charles w. Murphy to control the
serior organization. He has practical
ly threatened a baseball war 1t IS re-
ported that johnson, Immediately on
his arrival here, will seek out MS ciuo
owners and make plans to wage an
active campaign against the Natlonai
leaders, should they by electing Ward
make it necessary for him to bolt the
national commission which ne was IN
strumental in organizing.
American League Backs johnson.
The American league owners here
Johnson IN
anything he does. Wards election to
the National league presidency ap-
pears by no means assured Presi-
dent Murphy, of the Chicago club,
says that Ward will be elected on the
first ballot, but President Dreyfuss,
of the Pittsburs club. claims that
Ward can not row command more
than four votes. If the vote is four
for Ward and four for Heydler, the
present executive will hold over I'M
der the provisions of the Natlonai
league constitution.
Plenty of compromise candidates
have been named thus far and almost
all of them will be here to attend the
Pittsburg clubs banquet on Wednes-
day night The Murphy Ebbetts fac
ton was scheduled to select Joseph
D. O'Brien as it's compromise candi-
date while if Hermann, Dreyfuss ana
Dewey find they can not elect Heydler
they are likely it is believed. to place
in nomination Robert Brown of Louis
vile.
Arson Has No Chance.
"Anson has little or no chance,
according to one of the magnates,
land his appearance here is re-
GREETED. it being the general opinion
that whoever was responsible for
the veteran making the trip eastward,
has been hoodwinked"
Stanley Robson. the st. Louis
club owner, announced he would be
on hand here today. but Horace
Fogel who represents the new owner
of the Philadelphia will not arrive.
Friends of Fogel We're quoted here
today as asserting that "as yet he has
not pledged himself to the Murphy
Ebbetts faction and he will come here
ready to swap his vote to any mag
nate that will give him good players.
If this is the case Philadelphia
vote is unlikely to go to Heydler. as
the hermann reyfuss-Dovey coali-
ton has stated that it would not elect
its candidate by making any trades