Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-01-02 | Page 29 | Bright Future is Given New President

BRIGHT fUTURE IS i 1 GIVEN NEY NEV PRESIDENT National League Read Knows the Game and How to toRun Run It New York Jan who know Thomas Lynch oJ of the National league best for him a future as chief ot of the National league The manner In whIch he came Into offiCe shows him of broadminded principles He would not accept until assured that Mr Heydler would ue re retained tamed as under undE him and to protect Heydler he Is saId to have havo fathered a scheme for his election to a term Lynch gained his baseball knowledge as an umpire He never figured p as a player but he has always be been n conceded one of the best rs the game has seen He was II a disciplinarian of the most rigid type hpe He never addressed a player without the prefix Mr and Insisted on like lIka courtesy by the players Lynch umpired at a time when practicallY no protection was furnished the officials and consequently is IE as well qualified to maintain discipline In the league as any In baseball today He has declared that ne he Intends to torun torun run the league and not to be run by bythe bythe the men put him In office His past record promises a firm and just rule No ore one has haa yet been able to please a certain clique In the old major league and If Lynch succeeds he Is en entitled entitled titled to aU all the more more honor Te league Is liable to kick out Its flew lew executive a year from now but not likely to trample him to death In Inthe inthe the meantime The adoption of a schedule or of games for next season by the National league Is bound to raise mise a howl or of pro protest protest test The Tho public patronage toward the lose close oZ ot the past several seasons have shown that snowstorm games may be tolerated In April but are very unbecoming unbecoming coming In October There are the ex exceptions exceptions In championship towns or In clUes cities Interested In a close competition nut But a worlds championship series must watt wait until after the middle of October Is liable to be a sour affair Without a doubt the National league players wm will be resentful at the Idea The They now get paid until October 15 without mit the string