The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-19
TRIAL OF HORA(
WILL TEST LY|||
CASE OF PHILADELPHIA MAGl
CONES UP BEFORE LEKGx
NOVEMBER 18TH.
BITTER FIGHT LIKE
BROWN, OF LOUISVILLE. AAM1l
CANDIDATE, AND JOSEPH ~
o'BRIEN MENTIONED rOIs
PRESIDENT.

fans now are looking forward ~
winter conclaves of the two
leagues, which are billed for
month. When the magnates -
gether they usually furnish scmoS
element. Particularly does the
fly at the National league gathek4
and the prospects for a strenU
meeting this year are bright
AS usual. the National iea31
will assemble In New York, and
first skirmish will be fought %
cember 10th. The American leA&
will switch this year and have
meeting in Chicago. December u
being the date. Ban Johnson.A =
owners are more peaceabiy inc11
than their National league breth%
and the Chicago meeting Is like14
be a serene affair The sche
meetings of the two big leagues
be held in New York next Febru~
The big business before the
tional league will be to elect px1
dent. Tom Lynch, of course, VIII
up for reelection. and fully d31AM
TO be retained In office. How
there Is a campaign on now to
Esneias and it rs sufd that tire ~
owners hostile 10 the present inG1
| bent will rally behind Joe O. Brt&G
their standard bearer.
Lynch's Administration ClenA
| Most baseball men think that L1I
| should be reelected. It's three4&1
! administration has been clean. thee
/ it has been fun of squalls and roe
| weather. Lynch has fought hard
h.t Afss&&
| league. battle grounds, and tA0I
some of his umpires have not
up to the standard he always inA3k
| that his officials should be resp9&<
Lynch has won many friends 1o
| he began his fight to put HCN4
! FogeI out of baseball. 1t was IN
! time heSone the former king 01
| pires paid any attention to Hor4E
charges, but when Lynch started&@
go after Fogel he went at his I'll
| in earnest.
A test vote showing how Ly
stands in the National league
be taken on November 2sth. WlI
the Fogel trial viii begin. II the III
tionai league should sustain Lynch
his war with Fogel 1t will be q I'M
sign that Lynch viii be re-elecf}
president
uphold Lynch The club oWn
must sustain their president Or psaal1
| tically admit Fogel's charges ~
the 1912 race was fixed for the 0lGX
to win were true. There can bel
| half dealing with Fogel. He eth
should be found guilty or vindic1
if he can substantiate his allie
charges. M
In the meantime Fogel still Il r
ing to sell his ball club for Mill4
dollars The Phillies have been M
several dozen times in the Last
weeks. but Horace still fR at the h@
Horace says everybody seems t0S
of the opinion that the PhflIfes
been put on the bargain counters
adds that all Of these persons N1tM3
fooled
Even If Fogei does succeed iii
ing his club, the trial will take r.
Lynch says there will be no A1
for Horace, and The PhiiadA1
chieftain feels just the reverse-
last in New York Horace sai6
fight with Lynch will be fought Di
the bitter end
IF should sell my club beforoRS
vember 26th 1T will make no AZ
ence." Horace said a few weelkaS
| y
and has made charges ag1An1
which he must prove or get OUT
O'Brien and Brown.
Joseph p. O'Brien. the dep0Ne4@
rotary of the New York Giants ~
made public his opinion Of the yl1
was dismissed from Office. but
said that he may make few -
later on. O'Brien Is reported
In Chicago comforting with e.
Webb Murphy Whether OHM
trying 10 secure Murphy's bAckt
new offer for the PhiladelphiA
or in a sudden campaign for thu
idency OF the National leagues
at present by Thomas ]. LyncA
body seems to know. M
1t can be taken as fact, hON
that O'Brien doesn't intend to GSA
OF organized baseball Just vet. a.
is any way he can keep hima@
side of it, and that some Of tA
men in the game are more thu
inclined to take him by the
| O'Brien, II Is thought, may A~4
chance to land the Philadelphan
, if a certain big deal that han
pending for a week doesn't 60 thx
, successfully before IL o'clock t0e-
II O'Brien can win the eupp448
3 Barney Dreyfuss and Garry Here
: he can beat, William H. e1sdch@
} Of Horace F'ogel's present Jon.
as far as the leagues presid14
r concerned. the story to the eMA4
) | Robert w Brown, Of LOulSy3k1
r five votes In his inside pOcke1
!, not be contralicted by cGrtn4NM
D entail club owners. Once m0M%3
: is the lne-up for Browns etAs
t Brooklyn, Philadelphia.
, Pittsburg and Cincinnati.