Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-26
TENER RIGHT
NAN To LEAD
OLD LEAGUE
Governor Is a Lover of Baseball
and Feels Proud Of His
New Office.
By Sam Crane.
FEW YORK, Nov. 25-President
n EW YORK, Nov 26-President

nee m the flltn Avenue bulluiuB yes
fcrdav, after his trip TO Harrisburg
Pa where he, with Charles H. Eb-
bets president of the Brooklyn Clue,
" =. Baker, president Of the Phil1-
5e.pnia club. and Harry Ackerlanl,
Of Pittsburg, representing Charles W
Murphy. of the Chicago club, ten
3cred the presidency of the National
League to Governor John kinney
Trncr. Of Pennsylvania.
President Hampstead is enthusiasts
.. over the acceptance by Governor
rcuer of becoming candidate for
he important position, and his
election will be unanimous, the entire
sight magnates having come into
Inc, as officially stated by Mr.. Hemp
stead.
The advent into club ownership in
,no National League Of the young AMI
progressive members in the last year
Of Messrs. Hampstead, Gaffney, 3D.
GER and Britton has given them the
balance Of power in the councils Of
the parent baseball organization, and
they have been wise enough to see
that old fogyism in the conduct of
the leagues affairs no longer appeals
interests Of baseball or the welfare
ur tine corporate body.
Change Was Needed.
The constant chickering's betweens
she magnateS owing to petty politics
made possible by the election of their
presidents from year to year only,
and which was entirely foreign to
present-day baseball, with the i'm
mensc capital invested in the sport
That was necessary to keep progress
with the constantly increasing pop
uIaYity Of the sport and its .conse-
1uent hold on the public was largely
the cause of the loss of prestige the
National League has sustained in the
last few Years.
1t was appreciated by the new and
Younger magnates that some decided
change for the better must be fnsti-
ruted and a happy solution to The
tifi,-llty was provided when John X,
Tener's name was first mentioned az
candidate.
It was thought at tho time that.it
would be impossible to induce the
Governor of the great State OF Penn
~yIVania to accept the position. but
energetic efforts were made TO get
The Governors consent TO the use Of
his name, and they were successful.
Appreciates Honor.
There is no person in this broad
and who more appreciates the honor
10 be derived or the Importance and
dignity attached to the position Of
The presidency of the National League
han an old ball player who has
played under its banner, and no one
will appreciate it more than the com
.ng president although he has been
The recipient of next to the highest
uOiitIpa1 bOnnTS that citizen the
United States can ever get.
Governor Tener could never be-
come President of the nation, for the
simple reason that he is a native of
another country. having been born in
Ireland. This important event took
n'aC2 in 1868. But fortunately that
iocs not bar him from becoming the
head of the National League.
And, by the way, Governor Tener
will not be the first Governor of a
State to have filled the Office. Nor
gan g. Buckley, of Connecticut, was
once the president of the National
League, and he made q splendid one,
'po, He was an enthusiastic lover OF
inc game, and has held his interest
10 to the present time, notwithstand-
.0G his high honor as Governor, Sen
tor ana great prominence in bust
less
Then there was A. 6 Mills. now
one of our most prominent and
wealthy citizens; William A. Hurl-
onrt of Chicago, the watchdog of
me game who die more to keep 1t
.ean-and thereby of established per
manency-than perhaps any other
me man, and Nick Young, "Old I'm
@ Nick whom we all revere for
0s oonstancy and whole souled deYo-
a Rp nj f,1I oar