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Show fore ?35.0n0 had been pledged. No ono ever will know to what proportions this pool would have grown, for at this stago the team began to lose, and on their return re-turn from a disastrous eastern invasion they were practically out of the race, and the pledgers never were troubled for the money. I HIS UK KIIIPMI Owner of Reds Finally Finds Right Man in Skipper Pat Moran. CINCINNATI, October 1. Sixteen years ago, on September 11, 1903, the name of August Herrmann was heralded throughout tho width and breadth of the land where baseball flourishes as the chief justice of the national pastime. At that time ho was incidentally known as tho new owner of the Cincinnati Reds. This condition of public mind had not cnanged until hue in July uf this year, when the Reds assumed a lead in the National league race. Today "Carry." as he is known, not only to his intimates, but to the baseball public in general, is chiefly recognized as president of the Reds, champions of the k National league, and only incidentally as , chairman of the national baseball eom-mission. eom-mission. V ' In this city Herrmann numbers his friends by the tens of thousands, and there arc a large majority of these who do not hesitate in saying that when baseball base-ball gained a leader in August Herrmann, politics lost one. He was associated with the late George K Cox as a member of the executive council of the UevuiMican party in Hamilton county, and. while in late years he has taken no active interest inter-est in gui-iiTig the destinies of the O. O. P., he still is able to wield an influential arm in the party conferences. Wise in Politics. It was while Herrmann was one of Cox's chief lieutenants that the question of purchasing the Cincinnati baseball club from the into John T. Brush was broached to him. While he had always been interested in baseball, purely from a fan's viewpoint, lie never bad been interested i-i the club financially. The plea that the club should be owned by Cincinnati people only (Brush being from Indianapolis) appealed to Herrmann, and he was induced to form a company with the object in view of purchasing the Reds. He succeeded in putting through tho deal and this led to his study of baseball political conditions as they then existed, the celebrated war between the National and American leagues bringing up a situation situ-ation to him that he had by no means anticipated. Herrmann was really the prime mover In bringing about peace between the two leagues, a nd he was the man who suggested sug-gested and did the most work on the now renowned peace agreement which really put baseball on an organized basis. For years botii Herrmann and his associates asso-ciates in the Cincinnati club staunchly supported a losing proposition, but, despite de-spite this, they erected a magnificent concrete plant which is known as R.cd-land R.cd-land field. While numerous fans have insisted that the team would do better with Herrmann off the national commission, commis-sion, no one ever has accused the Reds' president of not doing all in his power to gather together a pennant-winning combination. com-bination. During his presidency, he obtained ob-tained such men as Bid MrPhee, Joe Kelley, Cia:k Griffith. Hank O'Day, John Ganzel, Joe Tinker and Christy Mathew-son Mathew-son to lead his team, but it remained for Pat Moran to succeed where the -thers had failed. Herrmann Superstitious. Herrmann probably is the best known man to baseball men, inasmuch as he ; has had much to do with both major leagues, as well as having become familiar famil-iar with the owners and players of every minor league in organize d baseball, through his position as chairman of the commission. He was born and raised in Cincinnati and during his early career was a printer on the Cincinnati linquirer. He still belongs to this union. While Garry Herrmann never has been accused of being superstitious, he let it be known during the latter part of July that all plans of the fans to do wonderful things for the Reds if they won the pennant pen-nant would most certainly be frowned upon by the club management. This brought to mind a little sidelight to the league race of two years ago when the Reds were almost daily alternating between be-tween first and second positions during the middle of July. At that time a bunch of enthusiastic rooters started out subscription sub-scription lists to have money pledged to send the team on a trip around the world, and it had hardly been started be- |