El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-21

-EW YORK. N Y. Sept FL
There is room for doubt as to
i whether the worlds champion
ship series is good thing for the
game.
Baseball is public confidence; no
more no less 1t is what the public
has MADE it. Intricate organization to
the contrary notwithstanding, It's lie
is hanging by the thread OF public ap-
proval. 1t has taken years and years
of encoura cement, WhOlesouled purpose
and struggle TO place the nations sum
mer pastime upon its present exalted
pedestal And yet one wave OF doubt
would sweep away the apparent 1lrIn
foundation like chaff before a gale
Baseball is an institution 1t is a
genuine, blue blooded, clean and invig-
Grating sport. Firmly established 1t
will endure as long as the American
race. It will endure-but maybe not
in the professional sense That remains
with the powers which control the pro-.
fession. Here We are several weeks
away from the classic close Of the sea
son and already there has arisen a
stencil of scandal
Charles Webb Murphy, president OF
the Chicago Cubs, appears to be hard
loser. He has questioned the integrity
of the game from which he ran shoe
string into millions of dollars. He
charges wholesale COLLISION among the
racy to discriminate against Chicago
in favor of the champion Giants Few
among his associates have escaped the
vituperous tongue of the cheSty little
Windy City masnate. He has even
assaiIed the honor Of Thomas J. Lynch,
the man that he himself advanced IN
compromise as president of the Nation
al league
Murphy starts Trouble.
Had Murphy's rawlings stopped with
or concerning himself little damage
would have been done. People have
become used to Murphy. What he says
goes in one ear and out the other But,
like the winnings Of a whipped cur,
his yelps got onto the nerves Of his
associates Chickering's back and forth
aroused the latent petty Jealousles and
hatreds of former days. The whole
National league was taken by the ears
until now no one knows kin or foe
But Murphy escapes il all Tom Lynch
is the goat"
The National league is after Lynch's
scalp. according to the best informed
authorities. Each of the several club
owners has picked his candidate for
the berth. The present executive
strength lies in the disSension that d.
vides his house. It will take a major
ity vote to unseat him and by the pres
ent signs and tokens, the old major
body will never be able to get together
to frame a majority vote for 20 years.
In such case Lynch would do well to
stick around just for spite. He is tired
of the job and he doesn't need the pin
money the National league pays its
president. If Lynch steps down and
out it will be the National leagues
loss.
should start HOusecIenning.
Be that as it may, the house clean
ing should start nearer the ground
floor. Charles Webb Murphy has
proved himself no fit person to be con-
nected with the promotion of baseball
if half the stories told of him are true
or if half the interviews attributed to
him bear one iOta of truth. He has al
ways been a trouble maker. His fault
is an uncomfortable desire to pose in
the limelight. c. W. Murphy has one
cry for the neWspapermen: say what
YOU wish about me or the Cubs. but
do not leave US out of the paper" He
is miser for publicity And without