Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-01-18 | Page 34 | Herrmann Will Still be Power in B. B. Circles

HERRMANN WILL STILL BE POWElL r IN B. B BB B. B 1 Oi Past Record Will Hang a Ove National Game Lon Long g After He Leaves By Jack Jac ach Vel LN EN YORK Jan IT ITH 1 Garry H 1 ton lon t of office f as chairman an of the al ur I Baseball commission will ill eon como t to end in in n. n February be he will still be t i i i power in major league o councils for fob for ho he has lIas done dono much for the o n a game Herrmanns Herrmann's advice has glee i proven golden golds n In la times of t Ii the big leagues es For loor el eighteen ean he has been head of th the whose arbitrary powers power were t estaD when peace was made tho the rational National and American leaga and his regime has been for Cor tho the most part It was largely through efforts that the warring ha leagues wen wert brought to together other at the tho peace table bl It was Herrmann who vho draft drafted lh the National agreement under which m tin tb big biff leagues operate today and it YU wu u Herrmann who wrote into It th lb the provision pro provision rD vision for tho biggest single event In tho the United States each uch lW Oppose nim For the l last l y year r Herrmann's Herrmanns ct al s lea leagues ues In tho the National league tin UTI opposed l hl his continuance an as th chili chili- I n nn It was this opposition that b bran It it about about his resignation But tho they were against Herrmann ing InC tho the chairmanship the opposition wont went no further for they hue hive a sel forgotten the tho things s he has done f the game ame It would be Impossible study the history of baseball alethe th fIn the Inception of ot the American le league and fail tall to appreciate the part Herr Herrmann Herb mann pla played ed in carrying out the de J dc-J duo ties o of a most difficult post to bandit handI The first ripple of oC opposition a agafon Herrmann Horrmann occurred in 1914 when a lit famous case caused such uch a rOT rov bet between een tho the Pittsburgh rJ Pirates tes ail nd St St. Louis Browns Branch Dranch Bicker Rickey now no of ot the Cardinals obtained Ekler's Ek fb lers ler's signature to a contract with Un Uti Browns while coaching at university Later Pittsburgh claimed r that had agreed to report to ti Ue tie Pirates and the fight was carried 41 oi 1 the National 2 commission n Retime Refuse to Vole ote jj 1 Ban Johnson and Governor Joha Toner Tenor then president of at the N Nation l league refused to vote on the cue case M Meach each had one of or his own league club to consider and the matter was wu re left entirely to Herrmann who vho ho decided ed it itIn Its In favor of ot the Browns This adoll incensed Barney Dreyfus president oJ of 1 the Pirates and ho he has never beef bet i friendlY with Herrmann since tk tb then t- t time In fact it Is claimed he worked ork incessantly to unseat tho the Cincinnati commission t man mm as lS chairman of the Ano Another her touch touchy case that nor Herrmann much embarrassment w the Scott Perry Pern case which in OIT l' l the tho Philadelphia Athletics and t i ti Boston Braves This case was in favor of or tho tiro Braves cs by but bul Connie Mack took it Into COg court at Cleveland and got an Injunction which permitted him to keep tn b player This time Herrmann got Mack Wl but ut ha bad not only with Connie some come other American league magn tu tesE and the theory grew that It was td J v to replace him with r. 1 entirely disinterested In hr the P f Despite any attitude the clubs took In the two cas cases s. s hOt Herrmann's Herrmanns effort to be fair never nc questioned question cd by those on tie the out connection connection It side It was simply his his position t I Ia ta the Cincinnati club and a National leaguer that caused sentiment nt to cr crystallize amon among a m j of oC tho club owners Hike flake Choke Choice tr leagues mu And now the tho major shO choose a man to fill flU Herrmanns all Is said Id t shoes that when Continued on Follo Following ring Pa 6 o. o al i HERRMAN W L BE I POWER IN B. B B. B CIRClES I Continued From Preceding Past Pago I done have ha been well veil filled rille That tho the ta task l ma Inn may be a rather difficult one Is ls easy catY to Imagine particularly if each eachl l should stron strongly favor a different dif dlf- ferent cnn candidate l ate And AnI it must not bo I overlooked o that in getting time the right I man for tho place there mu must t ho bo absolute absolute alabo- alabo lute harmony between the two t for or tho thi average man milan of or the caliber the big I leaguers will l seek bock to fill till the time office I I would er very probably hesitate to lo accept ac- ac I the thc berth unless a assured that ho would have hae tho the united support of or Iho tho I sixteen clubs I j jIn In fut fu ure councils in which both hoth I leagues have planned to discuss problems I hems lema at le least st once each year lien Herr BerrI I j mammas mamma's voice will carr carry as much weight a as it over ever did dill lie He will wili riot not have ht time the mantle manlle of commission chairmanship to 10 o clothe him with authority but ho lie hardly needs heedS s it IL Undoubtedly th the th action which led lo to Herrmann s 11 resignation was taken taleen only after alter the ho t serious t lion Uon 10 on oil time the part lart of th the timi National league And Herrmann steps s down I with a good record in tn tho thu C eyes of hin him hinI I fellow club owners o with t the thc lie possible exception of Harne Dreyfus ami Connie Connie Con Con- nie imie Mack MacIc No 0 doubt t the thc majors will frame frame- a u Joint resolution culo eulogizing when the they get together tog to I formally accept his resignation