El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-13
TENER AND HIS
PARTY ARRIVE
Presidentof NationalLeague
Says the Feds Are Max
ing No Progress.

dohu X Tcuer. pres dent Of the Ma
I tiouaI baseball league, member Of the
National baseball comission. former
I governor of Pennsylvania and former
! grand exalted ruler Of the Elks. Is IN
Ei Paso today. With him are Mrs.
I Toner. state senator Z. J.. Tustin. chief
/ commissioner Of Pennsylvania TO the
/ pauama-PaCific international eNpoSi-
ton. and Mrs Tustin. air. and Mrs O.
/ T. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs g. j. Ray,
/ j. T. Adams and George w Creighton
They are on their way from KARLSRUHE
I Pa. to the big fair at san Francisco,
and where governor Iener-Jhey SUN
call him by his old utle-Wlll be the
personal representative Of the present
{ governor of Pennsylvania at the dedi-
cation Of the Pennsylvania building FL
pas0 is one OF the few cities where they
/ have stopped off since leaving the east
President r. b. Orudorff. of the cham
Der of commerce: Harry Swain chair
man OF the entertainment committee OF
the chamber of commerce, and " X
stiles. exalted ruler Of -ne local lodge
of the 3 p. o. T.. and cfiers met the
party at the depot Friday night
Hes Bigger E'han ~ Hard
Governor" Icuer is % striking char-
acter You can well believe that when
you see him. FL Pasoaus lave pretty
good idea of the size OF Jess Willard.
so when 10 is said that the distinguished
visitor now i'm the city is bigger Jhan
the white hope. one can Eet an idea OF
bears about the same physical relation
to John X. TeuCr as JEFF TO Mutt Only
Mr.. Teuer is hardly lanky like Mutt He
is wen built and. To- judge from his firm
hand clasp, there is very little but mus
Gle in his makeup
The governor was very gracious with
the uCwspapermeu, but when they GOT
done -quizzing" him they came TO the
idea that IL was the GOV -rnor who had
done the interviewing
Talks Baseball.
81 am out OF politics entirely ana Tor
good declared Air- Iener- NO. ] have
nothing TO say on the Mexican question.
the neutrality OF the United states in
the European crisis or anything per
tanning to politics But iii be glad 10
talk baseball with you
Mr.. Teucr then stated that the Fed
eral league had made no progress
against the organized ranks last year
and he did not consider DO a real menace
TO the game or to- the other big leagues
He was then told he 70 as giving the
press nothing sensational and was re-
minded that when Ban IS. Johnson tray
els around he always las sensation
for the press.
lIr. Tener laughed and asked: What
does ne tell you, That the Fcderals are
going 10 blow un and so on-' The re-
porter admitted the truth-Of the answer
which the governor had supplied for
himself and eIr. Tener then continued
well. I don't care TO saw anything like
that. but the Federals are not soaring
US at all
Good Word For -IcCiOskey.
He was told that Fl Paso is TO enter
the ranks of organized ball and re-
marked. That's fine. You ought to
have a fine league out This way And so
John McClOsky is organizing it, Well
he knows the game and should make
your league a success
AIR Tener had. i'm the meantime. been
greeted by the reception committee and
had dropped back again 10 talk TO the
reporters When the automobiles were
reached. the governor took care TO see
that his golf sticks We're properly han
died and then laughinEly remarked that
ne was going 70 try the local links to-
day ana wanted Ito have his outfit in
good shape. ct believe i'm exercise in the
open air" he said, as he entered the
machine
And the scribes went away thinking
that II Mr. Tener ever put his fun
strength behind a drive on the golf
lengths, some distance drives would be
broken