Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-21
LYNCH MAY De
NEW PRESIDENT
Of FEDERALS
National League Head Has Been
offered Three-Year Contract
at $4,000 per Annum.
By Frank G.. Menke.

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-The Ma.
" tionaI League magnates, who
are to-day congratulating them
selves on the hiring of Gov. John X
Tener, Of Pennsylvania, TO head theil
organiza ton for the next four years
may wake up shortly and discover
that the firing of Tom Lynch to make
room for Tener will act as a boom
erang.
The one thing the outlaw Federal
League needed to give strength ano
weight to their organization was a
man OF Lynch's caliber and reputa-
ton. Lynch is a capable baseball!
man, perhaps as well schooled In
baseball lore as any man in America
to-day. And what he knows of the
inner workings of the organized base
ball crowd would be Of invaluable aid
to the outlaws.
Lynch has not been signed up by
the Federals as yet, but 1t looks Just
now as II he'll snap at the bait they
are bobbing in his direction-a three
year contract at $4,000 a year, the
same salary he was paid by the Ma
tional League.
yHTHEN Lynch's term expires he viii
w be foot loose Because Lynch
has devoted almost his entire life to
baseball he has had no time to learn
any other profession, and II seems
certainty that no one outside the Fed
eral League could consistently Of
fer Lynch $4,000 a year for his ser
vices
Some there are who argue that
Lynch won't accept the offer OF tho
Federals for two reasons:
One because OF sentiment for the
old National League crowd and the
other that he has been in organized
baseball so long that he would not
care to become an outlaw. The senti-
ment talk sounds like bunk. The ar
gument that Lynch would rather be
a regular" without an income than
an outlaw with an income of $4,000
year also listens bunkish. And there's
always a chance that the outlaws may
become so strong that some day they
will be taken into organized base
ball in the same way as the Amer
leans
THOSE who have followed Lynch's
L career as the head of the Ma
tional League feel that his treatment
al the hands OF some OF the magnates
generate any real sentiment.
OF course, II isn't an absolute GER
tainty that Lynch will accept the Fed
erals offer. But It seems like a safe
bet that he'll take the job IL the Fed
erals can positively guarantee him his
IS, 900 salary.
with Lynch at the head of their
organization, the Federals would be
40 per cent stronger than they are
now. Knowing that an experienced
baseball man was the leader of the
league, many ball players now on or
ganized teams would not hesitate very
long before jumping their contracts
and signing up with the Federals.
TIE baseball public would give more
L consideration-and more patronage
to the Federal League with Lynch at
the helm than 1t would otherwise. be-
cause they would know that the Ma
tional League head would give them
the best obtainable,
Just where the National League is
going to benefit by the acquisition OF
Governor Tener is a question. Tener
has been out OF touch with baseball
for a long time, and he will have to
be schooled in the present day intri-
cacies Of the running of the game be-
fore he can be of any great value to
the league. or course, the fact that
the former chief executive Of one of
the greatest States in the Union Is
heading a baseball organization will
be something of an advertisement to
the game, but organized baseball does
not need any press agenting.
As things look just now, II strikes
us that the National League by firing
Lynch and hiring Tener Is trebling
its executive expense and giving the
Federals that one mighty club Il
needed.