Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-04
MAY ELECT BROWN
 IN PLACE OF LYNCH
Effort Under Way for Louisville News
 paper Man to Succeed New Britain
 Man as National League President.

Certain National league baseball men believe that they will be able to elect successor to President Thomas J. Lynch at the meeting in New York this month. according to the New York Sun. This fact became known yesterday as a sequel to the story from Milwaukee that Joseph D. O'Brien, who has just resigned the position of secretary of the New York club, would announce himself a can didate for Lynchs troublous job. But O'Brien. according to inside informa- tion, hasn't chance. The man who leagues presidency is Robert w. Brown of Louisville, city editor of a newspaper in that city, and former grand exalted ruler of the Elks. Chief advocate of MT. Browns election is c. H. Ebbets of the Brooklyn club, who has been in Milwaukee attending the minor league meeting and who will visit several western cities in the Ma tional league circuit before arriving in New York next Wednesday.
 Ebbets has been doing quiet mis- sionary work in MT, Browns behalf since last September. He has received assurance from c. w. Murphy of the Cubs that Chicago's vote will be cast for the Louisville man, and Murphy also has guaranteed the vote of the Philadelphia club. From Milwaukee last night came the interesting infor- nation that in the interest of har- mony the Pittsburgh and Cincinanti clubs, controlled respectively by Bar ney Dreyfuss and Garry Hermann, have promised Ebbets seriously to consider the Brown candidacy.
 Two years ago, when Lynch was elected to his present office at the sug- gestion of President Brush of the New York club, a deadlock between Brown and John M. Ward was broken. Brown was nominated instead of John A Heydler by Hermann, who was SUD- ported by Dreyfuss, the late Stanley Robison of St. Louis and the Boston club. Brown. long a personal friend Of Hermann, did not have sufficient strength to win over a vote from the Ward contingent however, so that his friends finally accepted Lynch.
 EbbetS therefore decided severa. months ago to bring the Louisville man to the front, confident that his nomination would meet with the ap. | proval of Hermann and Dreyfuss anC that with the votes of those magnateG Browns election would be a certainty Ebbets and Lynch have not spoken fol more than a year. Soon after Lynch'i election he fined Ebbets for an infrac. | ton of the rules and subsequently, h, removed the Brooklyn man from tn, schedule committee. Ebbets vowet vengeance and has been waiting fer { chance to square accounts with tn, leagues president ever since.
 1 It appears that Lynch's trouble witl Horace Fogei of the Philadelphia club which has turned the league upsid, down, has been used by Ebbets a, reason why Brown should be elected Other magHates. it is said, agree witt Ebbets that too much publicity hal been given to the Fogei charges b7 Lynch, and that the latter has over I stepped his authority in attempting t,
 drive Fogel cut of the councils of tn
 league, Ebbets and his allies insis that Fegefs signed statement reflect
 ing upon the integrity of the umpire
 under Lynch's control should not hay
 been taken seriously; that Fogel's hot
 headedness and the idle talk carrie
 no weight with the baseball public
 and that Lynch should have taken n
 official notice of it. Furthermore Eb
 bets & Co. believe that the league
 constitution does not provide for tn
 expulsion of a club official and tha
 Lynch's aggressive policy toward Fo
 gel might involve the league in cou1
 proceedings that might prove disas
 treus for organized baseball.