Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-21
LYNCH MAY De
NEW PRESIDENT
Of FEDERALS
National League Head .as Been
offered Three-Year Contract
y at $4,000 per Annum.
BY Frank 6. Menke.

ArEw YORK. NV 2i-The Ma.
N tlonaI League mhgnates, who
are TO day congral ulating them
selves IN the hiring Of Cos John Is.
Tener. Of Pen.1syivania, 10 head their
organization for The next four years
NAV wake up shortly ana discover
that the iring o,f Tom Lynch to make
room for Tenor will act as boom
erang
The one thing the outlaw Federal
League needed to give strength and
weight 10 their organization was %
man Of LynCit's Caliber and rcpuia
ton Lynch IL a capable basebal
man. psThapN as Wei schooled To
baseball lore as any man in America
to-day. And what he knows Of the
inner workings Of the organized base
ball crowd would he Of Invaluable aid
10 the outlaws.
Lynch has not been signed up BIS
tho Federals as yet but II looks Just
noR as II hen snap n the bait lhey
ara bobhing tn his direction a three
year contract At $4,000 a year, the
80 me salary he was paid BY the Ma
tional League.
NLrHEN Lynch,s term expires ne viii
w be foot loose Because Lynch
has devoted almost his entire lie 20
baseball he mas had no time 10 learn
any other profession, and 70 seems q
certainty that no one outside the Fed
eraI League could consistently Of
fer Lynch IS 900 a year for his ser
vices
Some there are who argue that
Lynch won't accept the offer Of the
Federals for two reasons
One because Of sentiment Cor iHo
old National League crowd and the
other that he has been In organized
baseball 80 long thai he would not
care TO become an OUTLAW. The scntl-
rnent talk sounds like bunk TN ar
gunnent that Lynch would rather be
a regular without an income ihan
an outlaw with an income OF $Sooo a
wear also Listens bunkiah Ana there.
always a chance that the outlaws may
become SO strong that some day they
will he taken into organized base
ball In the same way as the Amer
leans
THOSE who have followed Lynchs
L career as the head of the Ma
tional League feet that his trea imenl
al the hands Of some OF the maRnatcs
generate any real sentiment
or course. 1t isn't an absolute Ger
tainty that Lynch win accept the Fed
erals offer Rut II seems like safe
bet that he'll take the job II the Fed
erals can positively guarantee him his
So ono salary,
WIN Lynch at the head Of their
organization the Federals would be
IN per cent stronger than they are
now knowing that an experienced
baseball man was the leader of the
league, many ball players nov ON or
ganized teams would not hesitate very
long before jumping their contracts
ana signing up with the Federals
TIE baseball public would give more
j consideration and more patronage
10 the Federal League with Lynch AZ
the helm than II would otherwise be
cause they would know that the Ma
tional League head would give them
the hest obthirahie
lust where the National League is
going TO benefit hv the acquisition of
Governor Tener Is a question, Tcner
has been out Of touch with baseball
fot long time. and he win have To
he schooled IN the present day tntr'-
cscies OF the running Of the game he
fore he car he of any great value to
the league or course, the fact that
the forner chief executive Of one Of
the greatest states In the Union is
heading q 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. n strikes
us that the National League 10y lring
Lynch and hiring Tener Is trehling