Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-15

Tom Lynch, president OF the Ma.
tional League, will have to make q
| hard fight If he desires to hold his
job another year. Garry Hermann
and other magnates are after Lynch's
scalp and they have promising can
dldate to fill his shoes. This story
comes out as If brand-new in the New
York papers. but practically the same
facts were printed in these columns
more than a month ago. Lynch, II
seems. doesn't suit the big magnateF
of the National League and they are
going to trim his wings. The man
with when they are going to do it is
Robert W. Brown, of Louisville.
Brown, 1t seems, is Herrmann's man,
and Charley Ebbets, of Brooklyn;
Barney Dreyfuss. Of Pittsburgh, and
Schuyler Britton, OF st. Louis, are
backing him. So far the Brown forces
have only four clubs. which is not
sufficient, but, truth to tell, Lynch,
it is claimed. cannot bank on q single
club. However, If there isn't a gen.
eral fioodtide for Brown, It may be
that Lynch will hold his job, for some
of the magnates are wise that other
magnates are out to control. with the
help of new president. the entire or
| ganization Thus Lynch may be
saved, and, to his credit. he is going
to put up a battle, not only for his
position, but for his honor. If the
breaks" of the game are with him
he will win, although he goes into
the contest with four OF the eight
magnates against him and the other
four not with him. Such victory
would be co1ossal--and sweet
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Mr.. Lynch has made a pretty good
president. Outside of his decision
reversing Umpire Brennan in that
now famous New York Philadelphia
game, the president has conducted
| his office in a most businesslike man.
ner. In not backing up his umpire.
Lynch was entirely out of order. The
arbiter was right as he viewed the
! situation, although the proceedings
were rather unusual Lynch would
have shown more backbone by up
! holding Brennan, and then he would
not have given the National League
! directors a chance to slap him in
the face, which they did by revers-
ing their president and ordering the
game to be finished. If the umpire's
ruling was off color, surely the ruling
| of the president was and the final
ruling of the league directors was
| joke entirely. Umpire Brennan, in
making his decision, was on the
| level; President Lynch, in making
| his ruling, was also honest and above
board, but the league directors hand
in the pie was simply to give
| Lynch a rundown in the hope that
he might become sore and quit. He
| fooled them all, the w.sest of the
wise, and now, single-handed. he is
going to fight them and he may beat
them in the long run. 1t is to be
| battle of terrific odds. Lynch goes
into the fight with four clubs surely
against him and not a club that he
can figure on with him, and yet he is
likely to be swinging the gavel for
another year at that.
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Pop Arson, in declaring that his
old Chicago team was a better ball
team than the present Philadelphia
T
arrested for committing any crime, but
| there is no one to stop others from
| differing with this grand old man."
Yes, We will all have to admit that
team. Those men IN their day could
play the game as no other team
could play it then. But today, Dear
Pop" the situation is different. The
Athletics are in a new age-ln faster
company. If the old Chicago boys,
in their best form, mind you, were to
stack up against the Athletics, in.
their best form, Pop Arson and his
team would be beaten twenty times
worse than the Giants, If such thing
were possible. In their day, the Chi
eago Colts were premier--were cham
pions. Today the Athletics hold the
| honors. While there isn't way in
the world to prove it, outside of COM
mon sense, the old Chicago team that
Arson is talking so much about
wouldn't be able to beat, perhaps,
the st. Louis Cardinals, who now
hold the title of the worst team in
the big leagues.
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The Federal League is likely to
make trouble for organized baseball.
| The outlaws are early in the fray
and they are making no bones of
their intentions. they are going to
! stir up a mess and endeavor to Sc
cure some of the stars of the Amer
lean League and the National League,
all of which will do baseball little
good and much harm. The outlaw
game is not a sporty game at all
The players will profit, of course, but
the fools of business men will get
the worst of it in the end The men
who jump their contracts dc so for
/ the mighty dollar only and they will
jump to the next one, too, if the
price is sufficiently tempting There
! is no honor, no sporting spirit. in the
fight, and the men become more diff
1cult to handle as outlaws than as
regular fellows. Ask anybody who
has had a touch Of the OUTLAW"
situation and they'll tell you ter