The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-04
PAT POWERS TO RETIRE.
Expected to Give Up Baseball 10 Prom OF
Venture In ireland.

When the Eastern League Conyene- a.
! the Victoria next week for the annual fall
| meeting the club owners viii come prepared
for a red hot hight over the election of on
GERS. =. I. Powers. who has held ths pres!
dsncy Of the leagu. for many year-. Is the
object of another bitter personal fight.
but this time he may surprise both friends
and foes by announcing that he j. through
with professional baseball, NJ least for tho
present,
Powers. II his plans do not miss nr"
is expected to notify the delegates upon their
arriN al that he has no desire To bs reelected
la fact hs hasn't the time or patience to
devote to the organization for which he
has stood sponsor for nearly twenty year,.
Powers u ~ understood has been quietly
buyin. mp big enterprise IN ireland and
has finally secured a controlling interest.
His friends have known for some tim. that
he intended to visit ireland late this month
to take charge of the venture and would
have no time to spend A. president OF IA
baseball league. Powers. always base
ball fan. enjoyed himself as leader Of the
Eastern League. although the si.0p salary
hardly repaid him for thu way hs enter
tanned the different club owners. The league
WAS a matter OF pride with him apd on many
occasions to prevent a wreck hc dug iuto
his own pocket to keep the cIubr an PTuYi-
dencr. Jersey city. Montreal. Rochester
and other cities above water
Vt one time Powers was tho league
one and the same thing. There were no
factions. no trouble makers ami an aDs. nee
of isnlousy that was surprising. BIt
gradually a. new persons became flnan"ially
IN tere-ted Ia the league opposition to Powers
developed tie wasn't Accused Of faVoTit-
ism OF sharp dealing bcca'ise he ~ known
tsrs.ted in bicycle races, Variations, boxing
matches and other things some OF the
in TO he president Of their organization.
Powers was depo-ed one year and HARRY
Taylor succeeded him. Btit when the ne ~
election came around the club owners visited
y. T.. hats In their hands. and asked him
to come back. Since then under his leader
ship the Eastern League has gradually de-
velOped into the most powerful circuit
outside Of the two major leagues. The
clubs. with one or two exceptions, made big
hammer year. Yet the old opposition to
Powers was always cropping out until
several Of the club owners recently an
president Edward Barrow OF Toronto was
named a. likely candidate and others
Sisr,.s n TN. matte, SoveVsr a,r.p, =" say
that on tn. day of the Eastern League
meeting h. would state his position.
because of private business. said friend
Yesterday. lie has given up nearly thirty
years of his life TO baseball and has splen.
did record for integrity. Bat he has other
ventures that need his time and attention
and when the Eastern League men get to-
g.ther next week Powers will tell them Ia
elect another man to tine presidency. lie
has no candidate for III" lob either.
PoWer- was identified with the lnterna-
tional League hack IN the vs. before tho
Eastern LEA que was organized from n
We pra Ctically Introduces professional base
hal In Trenton Jersey city and other New
Jersey towns after which he was mana ger
OF the Rochester club in lsDs ~" managed
the Giants in iso: and soon after no was
elected president Of the Eastern Ieagu.
Ne was the first president u the National
Association Of Minor Leagues and was char
man Of IN. board II arbitration. Baseball
will miss him.