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
When Magnates Meet.
By Damon Runyon.
FTER having been slated for re-
tirement by the early fall dope,

a FTER having been slated for re-
~ urement by the early fall dope,
only to see sentiment veer
around until it is practically certain
that he win 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 10 make a
few suggestions to the magnates that
they viii have 10 adopt II 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 a three-year term.
with a possibility that he may ask
for five years.
Baseball people generally will sup
port the president OF the National
League in this demand. He has been
In office long enough for the mag
mates 10 determine whether he is
worthy Of the office. and II he Is good
enough to be reelected he is Ger
tainly good enough to be given a term
OF sufficient length to make the Job
worth while.
A Long Step Forward.
A three or five-year term for the
president would be the longest step
forward that the old league has made
in many a day It would put the office
above the petty squabbling that
marks every meeting, and give the
president some dignity. Moreover, IL
would give him a chance to do some
real work. As conditions are now, he
is the central figure Of a lot of petty
politics once year.
Lynch is now in a position to make
demands. and to make them stick.
Regardless of the merits OF the ques-
ton as to whether he is the right
man for the job, the fact remains
League magnates want on the job,
and therefore he can make them come
TO his terms If he desires.
Want Hermann Removed.
There is strong agitation in many
quarters for the removal OF Garry
Hermann as a 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 a lot of base
ball people believe that It would not
hurt baseball TO have a comparative
outsider on the supreme bench of the
game. Not long ago a case arose
where the Cincinnati club made 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
pay half the purchase price but later
IN II 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 unfit for service although
Toe Tinker himself saw Morgan in re
ton before he Was purchased Any
way, the National Commission an
nulled the deal, and Cincinnati got its
money back from Tcbeau.
Both Judge and jury.
In this case Hermann was, a. 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
the mercy Of the court an the time,
although there was nothing in the
case rejecting In any way on Garry $
integrity or his fairness.
II he did not figure personally in
the decision MS associates on the
commission did. and cases OF this ma
ture are bound 10 give rise TO criti-
cism tha. could be avoided by having
third dlsinierested party on tAe
body.