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.

Ace In the Fifth Avenue Building yes
terday, after his trip to Harrisburg,
Pa where he, with Charles H. Eb-
bsts president of the Brooklyn clro;
". +. Baker president of the Phill-
5s,phia club, and Harry Ackerland,
q Pittsburg, representing Charles ".
Murphy. Of the Chicago club, ten
3ered the presidency of the National
Leacue to Governor John kinney
| Tcner. Of Pennsylvania.
President Hampstead is enthusiast
Hc over the acceptance by Governor
Tener of becoming a candidate for
the important position, and his
/ eeet!on VIII be unanimous, the entire
eight magnates having come into
line, as officially stated by Mr.. Hemp
stead
The advent into club ownership in
the National League of the young and
| progressive members in the last year
/ Of Nessrs. Hampstead Gaffney, Bd-
kor 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
4 10 the baseball public or to the best
interests of baseball or the welfare
Of the corporate body.
Change Was Needed.
The constant chickering's between
the magnates owing to petty politics
made possible by the election of their
presidents from year to year only,
a to
present-day baseball, with the i'm
mense capital invested in the sport
that was necessary to keep progress
with the constantly increasing pop
uarity Of the sport and its conse-
Quent hold on the public, was largely
tie cause Of the loss of prestige the
National League has sustained in the
last few years.
Il was appreciated by the new and
i Younger magnates that some decided
4 change for the better must be insti-
4 tuted and a happy solution to the
81 difficulty was provided when John *.
Gener's name was first mentioned as
candidate
It was thought at the time that it
would be impossible to induce the
Governor Of the great State of Penn
Syyania to accept the position, but
energetic efforts We're 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
70 be derived or the Importance and
dignity attached to the position OF
i the presidency of the National League
han an old ball player who has
played under its banner. and no one
viii appreciate it more than the com
!ng president, although he has been
ne recipient Of next to the highest
political honors that a citizen of the
United states can ever get.
Governor Tener could never be-
come President of the nation, for the
4 simple reason that he is a native OF
another country, having been born in
Ireland This important event took
place in 1863 But fortunately that
Goes not bar him from becoming the
mead Of the National League.
And, by the way, Governor Tener
VIII not be the first Governor of
State to have filed the office. Nor
/ gan 9. Eulkeley, of Connecticut, was
once the president of the National
H League, and he made a splendid one,
4 The game, and has held his interest
4 up to the present time notwithstand-
4 hg his high honor as Governor, Sen
ness
Then there was A. G. Mills, now
Que OF our most prominent and
wealthy citizens; William A. Hurl-
Duf[ Of Chicago, the watchdog of
Ie game, who did more to keep 1t
,Iean-and thereby Of established per-
inahency-than perhaps any other
we man, and Nick Young, "Old I'm
e Nick, whom we all revere for
.4s cohslancy and whole souled devo-
''oh 10 the grand old game.
Proud of His Career.
;, All lhese gentlemen-as well as
marry Pulliam and Tom Lynch, who
nave been presidents since-consid-
e,ed that their positions as such were
suong the highest honors they could
possibly attain.
80 that the august Governor of
pnHs[ iVania viii not be alone in his
pp' eelatlon of having the opportuni-
'o dictate the policies of the ma
,oual game looking TO its perma-
neA,N and the welfare of which APP
.eas TO many millions of people in
"S Sport-loving country of ours.
y '2EeFnor Tener as president of the
.al'haI League, will have its best
..eIeSts at heart and that of the
SaHe liself-that spirit was born in
J" When he first started in to play.
" never fails to express himself as
uS proud of being a professional
'SeoaIl player whenever he speaks
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