Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-01
LYNCH CERTAIN
Of REELECTION,
NOW DICTATOR
National League President Intends
to Demand Three-Year Term
WheHsMa agnates Meet,
BY Damon Runyon.

a FTER having been slated for re-
~ tirement by the early fall dope.
only TO see sentiment veer
around until it is practically certain
that he will be reelected president
of the dear old National League, it
IS now said that Mr. Thomas j.
Lynch, ESQ, is going to take quite a
hand in said election. His friends
declare that he is going to make a
few suggestions to the magnates that
they viii have to adopt If they want
TO. retain his service.
In other words, Thomas j. Lynch is
going to do a little debating.
His friends say that he is going TO
demand at least three-year term,
with a possibility that he may ask
for five years.
Baseball people generally viii sup
port the president of the National
League In this demand. He has been
in Office long enough for the mag
mates to determine whether he is
worthy of the office, and If he is good
enough to be reelected he is GER
ratnly good enough to be given term
OF sufficient length TO make the Job
worth while.
A Long Step Forward.
\ three or tiVe-year term for the
president would be the longest step
forward that the old league has made
in many day. 1t would put the office
above the petty squabbling that
marks every meeting, and give the
president some dignity. Moreover, il
would give him n chance to do some
real work As conditions are now, he
is the central figure of lot OF petty
politics once "a year.
Lynch is now in position to make
demands. and to make them stick
Regardless OF the merits OF the ques-
lion as to whether ne is the right
man for the job, the fact remains
that he is the man the National
League magnates want on the job
and therefore he can make them come
10 his terms II he desires.
Want Hermann Removed.
There is strong agitation in many
quarters for the removal of Garry
Hermann as n member of the Ma
.tional Commission, and the placing OF
a man in his job who is not connected
with either league.
Garry may be everything his
friends say for him, but q lot of base
ball people believe that II would not
hurt baseball to have comparative
outsider on the supreme bench of the
game. Not long ago a case arose
where the Cincinnati club made a deal
with the Kansas City American Asso-
citation team for Cy Morgan, the vet
eran pitcher The Red management
agreed to pay $4,000 for Cy, and did
Jay half the purchase price. but later
on it developed that the pitcher had
a sore arm, and Cincinnati repudiated
the deal.
They charged there had ben col
fusion between George Tebeau. owner
OF the Kansas City club. and the
pitcher, to conceal the fact that Nor
gan was UNIT FOR service, although
Joe Tinker himself saw Morgan in ac-
ton before he was purchased Any
way the National Commission an
nulled the deal, and Cincinnati got its
money back from Tebeau.
Bath Judge and Jury.
In this case Hermann was. at least
theoretically, judge and jury in de-
termining the merits OF his own com
plant, and the decision made no hit
With the minor leaguers, who are at
ne mercy of the court all the time.
although there was nothing In the
case rejecting in any way on Garry 5
integrity or his fairness
II he did not figure personally in
he decision his associates on the
commission did. and cases Of this ma
lure are bound 10 give rise to Criti-
EN- that could be avoided by having
third disinterested party on the
~ -rning body.