The Washington times., 1915-12-19
TENER'S SCALP WILL
FALL, say MAGNATES
Johnson Believes N. |. Head
Should Be SuppIanted.
Heydler Is Mentioned.
BY LOUIS A. BOUCHER.

NEW YORK. Dec. 19.-John X. Tener.
former pitcher in the National League,
and later governor of Pennsyivania, Is
doomed as head OF the National League.
Though he will attend next Tuesdays
meeting at Cincinnati as member OF
The National Commission. he will be
sidetracked before the coming campaign
opens for some man who KnOWs moro
about the inside OF baseball and who
cannot be bunked. II for no other
reason. Ban Johnson believes that Tener
should be supplanted by some other man
who knows more about baseball. What
ever Ban johnson will hereafter demand
he will get. II is up to him as to
whether Tener gets another years OK
perience as a big league manager or
not. The dope has johnson real peeved
about Tener.
As things have broken. the Feds have
easily beaten the National League and
might be said to have a draw decision
with the American League. The inde-
pendent leaders will buy into the Ma
tional League. but they have given Ban
Johnson a hard run for his money He
has been compelled to act with the
National League in declaring peace.
He has failed to "let the Feds stew in
their own Juice" as he has so often
said He has failed to force the Feds to
quit all participation in the national
game and drop every cent they put into
the game. The reason Is plain to all
newspaper men attending the meeting
which seems to nave fr1ttered away.
The National League. represented by
John X. Tener. melted away before the
heat of battle. and Ban johnson was
compelled to face 1t alone. II for no
other reason than that Ban Johnson is
peeved at Tener, the head of the Ma
tional League Is doomed.
II II had not been for Tener. the FEDS
would never have known that the Ma
tional League was ready to quit. Jim
Gilmore and Harry Sinclair found this
out by a method all their own. and the
moment they knew 1t. Tener's artless
defense was done. He had nothing left
but surrender.
The Feds made their great play in the
alleged purchase of a ball park here at
LenoX avenue and 18TH street. They
| were the player in a stud poker game
showing an ace with a deuce in the
| hole against pair of kings. The Ma
| tonal League, holding the kings, did
not haze the nerve to call and so the
Feds have won the not. Toner fell down
! badly in handling the negotiations with.
the Feds. He allowed himself to be
blufed by Gilmore, and Fan Johnson
will never forget his actions The in
! side dope Is that the National League
will accent the resignation of John h.
Tener as president OF the league within
three months. or. in other words. be-
| fore the coming campaign starts.
| The National League has been made
| TO look most foolish bv the actions of
JcEn X .Tener and several influential
i magnates were heard to say last night
that John Heydler a Washington boy.
now secretary of the league, should be
the new head OF the National League.
Heydler declined to talk about the sub
| tect, saying he was satisfied with his
present berth. but Barney DTeyfuss, who
acted us peace envoy to the American
League in Chicago, may suCgest that
Heydler succeed Tener as soon az the
latter resigns. Tener's resignation is
expected to follow the NEGOTIATIONS for
peace between the National Commission
and the Federal LeaCucrs.