Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-08
Hermann Willing
to Step DOUn, but
He Advises Delay
Commission Chairman Puts 1t
Up to the Big League
Presidents.
HIS REASONS LOGICAL

CINCINNATI, Jan. s--Garry Herr
mann today put It up to John Heydler,
president of the National league, ana
Ban johnson, president of the American
league to say whether he should imme-
diately resign as chairman of the ma
tional commission. Hermann asked
them to make the decision when he MADE
bis annual report as chairman at the
annual meeting of the commission here
today. Herrmann's report recommended
that the commission should not elect Of
tlcers at this time, and then said:
"In the meantime. If my collea CUES are
of the opinion that the commission
should operate temporarily without
chairman, 1 will be glad to tender my
resignation, Immediately"
In his report Hermann said IN part:
SETTLE DIFFERENCES
FIRST, HE URGES.
"Inasmuch as there is a divergence OF
views between the two parties or the
first part to the national agreement as
to the continuation of the commission as
constituted, and the qualifications OF IT'S
chairman. or the substitution therefor OF
man tribunal, strongly recon-
mend that the ELECTION of OFFICERS De ue-
ferred until an agreement mas peen
reached on these points.
"Having recommended a year ago that
the election of officers be deferred lot
the reasons above, and understandings
that no definite conclusions with respect
to this matter have been reached eitner
hv The two leagues or the committees
representing them, it must be apparent
that there should not be any election OF
officers at this time.
NOT TRYING TO
"Yn making this statement want 1t
understood that 1t is not done with
view on my part to hold on to the ONCE
which 1 now occupy as your cnal[m az
but, on the contrary, believe tnat tn, tne
question in controversy should be taken
mn by the committees already appointed
for this purpose, the two leagues, as We'll
as yourselves, for adjustment at the
earliest possible period; and having IN
mind that there probably will be joint
conference between the members OF the
two major leagues within very Re"
weeks that the matter should be dennlte-
" determined either previous thereto OF
at that time. ,
"During the past year the national
agreement insofar as 1t pertains to the
national association, has been sbrogated.
1t seems to me the first thing to be de-
termined is the question whether new
agreement should be entered into at this
time with the minors. Personally, | am
not keen for new agreement untll the
Baltimore Federal league case that was
tried In Washington and has now been
taken up on appeal, has been finally dis
posed OF because as matters now stand
If | am correct in my contention, the ma
tional agreement as well as the commits
sion itself Is Illegal"
The question of awarding third place
money In the American league cham
pionship race in 1919 was expected to be
another subject before the commission
today. New York finished third in the
race with Carl Mays, ordered suspended
by Johnson, but retained on the pitching
staff by virtue OF a court injunction,
With games won by Mays thrown out,
Detroit would have been In third po-
sition at the close of the season.