The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21
Lynch Was Right
 In His Decision
Barney Dreyfuss Forgot to Study Rules Before Roast ing National League
 President

l Barney Dreyfuss, president of the ! tive in matters baseballistic. Bu l Barney is not infallible. The proof | lies in the fact that when Dreyfuss protested Brooklyn's game in Chica. go, which was played last Sunday, be- | fore sending his official document to President Thomas J. Lynch, he neglected to read carefully section 4s | of the playing rules of the Nationa League of Professional Baseball Clubs. Had he done so Dreyfus: l never would have protested tha game. The playing rules and the cir cumstances show that either Dreyfus 1 or whoever perused the rules scanned
 them carelessly. There was abso. l lutely no grounds for the protested game in Sundays double-header ir l Chicago.
 The controversy as to whetae, President Lynch did right in. squash. ing Dreyfuss' protest seems to have stirred up a lot of bitter feeling fr gue's head. Indirectly, Dfeyfuss has come out, against Lynch and is said | to be ready to oppose any move fn December to re-elect Lynch as presi- dent of the league. Pittsburghers assert that Lynch violated the con-
 
 and Brooklyn to play two games last Sunday.
 The best proof that Lynch didn't violate the rules is the rule pertain ing to postponed dates, which comes
 under section 45. One of Sunday game. Brooklyn was scheduled to play in Brooklyn on Aug. 25. The interpretation of the playing code shows that the game was allowable. On Aug. 25 wet grounds prevented the scheduled game from being play ed. As the. following day was a Saturday and two games were al- ready scheduled, it was impossible to play off the postponement. This ser ies was the final one the Cubs played in Brooklyn. After the game was called off both Presidents Murphy of Chicago and Ebbets of Brooklyn noti- fled Lynch that it would be agreeable to play it off in Chicago at a later date. Due notice was served on Pres ident Lynch.
 The rule in question reads: Each club shall play twenty-two or more championship games with every other club in the league. A tie game, or game prevented by rain or other causes, shall be played off on the same ground on which scheduled on any open date during the same or any subsequent series, the date to be optional with the home club, but no tie or postponed game shall be play ed off as double-header in the first series Provided, that the date for playing off such postponed or tie games must be at once fixed by the home club; the visiting club and pres- ident of the league to be notified of such date before 8 o'clock F. M. of day such postponement or tie occurs; and in event date for such playoff be fixed for the next day of the same series, the home club shall also notify the umpire or umpires then officiating in that city. If, however, all of the series of games scheduled on any ground have been ended. and any such game remains unp1ayed. then such game shall, if possible, be play ed off on the ground of the opposite club on a date to be determined by said club"
 President Lynch when asked about the protest had little to say cOncern- ing the matter He gave section 45 as his answer as to why he disaliow- ed the DreyfuSs protest.