Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-03-13
|EX-NATIONAL BOSS WEARS bIG SMILE Tom Lynch Not Sorry He ws Kicked Out of
 Presidency. TENER GETS BIG PAY. New Head of Affairs in League Is to Draw Down $25,OGD Per Year
 MOguls Are Willing.
TENER GETS BIG PAY.
By Frank C. Menke.


 turmoil and strife of baseball, there a man with a dark mustache, with sofe brown eyes and hair that is gray ing at the ends, who smiles all day the smile that one smiles when is hap py and contented and at peace with all the world.
 The man who smiles is Tom Lynch, once proxy of the National League, now proprietor of a prosperous thea ter in the little Connecticut town. Tom, as many will recall, was boot ed out of the National League last December, after serving ii for four years, because the pugnacious moguls decided they wanted 'an able man to ably handle the affairs of the league"
 It hurt Toms pride bit when he was showed out into the cold cruel world with nothing to warm him but his feeling of indignation toward hls former bosses, but Tom hasn't minded the cold much lately. In fact, he's quite glad now that he was showed, and thereby saved the hours of agony that Governor John K. Tener, his sue cessor, has endured during the past ten weeks or so.
 Is Now OpiniOnless. What do you think of the present state of affairs in the National League?" Lynch was asked.
 Il have no opinion to express" was the reply. "I am out of the league, and I feel, therefore, that 1 have no right to express my senti- ments concerning what has happened since I was supplanted by Governor Tener,"
 "The busting of Murphy was a good thing for the league and for baseball in general, wasn't it?"
 "You will have to excuse me-" re- turned Lynch. ssses
 q have no statement to make. My attitude toward the National League was expressed to the magnates on the day that I was let out and Governor Tener elected in my place. At that time l told the magnates I hoped they would conduct themselves with as much dignity as they expected from their new leader. And l also told t,On q help, not a hindrance, to him.
 "In closing l said that l wished the National League every success. meant it then and l still mean it. was in the service of the National League for many years. l owe much to the National League. That they should depose me as president and put some one else in my place IS their right. Why should l feel hard toward them because they exercised that right.
 q was in baseball nearly all my life and baseball became part of my life. To be out of it is bit hard, but I am happier now than 1 was for the past few years. l have no trou- bles or worries. I am my own boss. I do not have to take dictation from anyone, nor do I have to hear theI brunt of criticism"
 Willing to Pay Tener.
 The National League magnates have come to the conclusion that the $25,- 900 annual salary they agreed to pay Governor Tener has been a wise in- vestment. Tener is signed up for four year. but will not draw any sal ary for 1914, as he will be on thei payroll of the state of Pennsylvania until the end of the year.
 Serving the first year without pay and getting $25,O00 for each of the three following years means that Tener's yearly salary for four years will average only $1S,750. And thel magnates feel right now that Tener'sI little stunt of placing the skids under Mister Murphy and then showing Mis- ter Murphy into the discard is well worth the total money they will pay Tener for the four years of his serv- ice.
 Lynch's salary was $S,OO0 and when William Baker, president of the Phll- lies proposed Tener as Lynch's suc- cessor, some of the magnates were against the idea because they figured that $25,OoO was too much muchness in the way of salary. Baker, how ever, pleaded Tener's case, pointingl out that Tener would prove to be al second Moses and would lead thel league ont of chaos into the Promised